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SWAMP

About Me

Swamp is founded in 1996 by Marius Bos and Leon van der Weiden. Swamp's first album "Swamp" is recorded in the year 1998.
Whilst recording the second album "Bayou and Beyond" in the year 2000, the bass en guitar parts where played by several session musicians. The critics where very exited and the band played thru all of Europe. After a lot of touring and some changes in the formation, Swamp's sound developed a rough edge and there was more room for improvisation.
That particular "Swamp sound" was recorded very nicely in one take sessions at Sing Sing studio's in the Netherlands. Those recording resulted in the CD Voyage D'amour and is released in the year 2006. Please check the demo or just buy the CD at your local iTunes store.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/09/2007
Band Website: www.swamp.nl
Band Members: Swamp bandmembers:

Influences: Swamp is a band from the Netherlands, and draws inspiration from the various kinds of music that come's from the swamps of Louisiana (zydeco, cajun) and from Central America. Zydeco and cajun are mostly in French/English. They are hybrid forms of the music brought to Louisiana by French/Canadian immigrants.

Tex-mex is based on the music of German immigrants (polka's), mixed with influences from South and Central America.

In short, Swamp's music is a melting pot of all kinds of musical styles that provides the audience with a night of undiluted fun and a strong urge to dance.

The band was founded in 1996, and it looks back on an impressive list of successful gigs all over Europe at a variety of jazz, blues and country festivals, such as: the Moulin Blues Festival, the Oerol Festival, Folk Festival Skagen, Jazzfestivals in Breda, Kempten, Lichtensteig, Wendelstein and the itinerant theatre festival The Parade.

Sounds Like: Los Lobos, Clifton Chenier, Queen Ida, Ry Cooder.
Record Label: Bayou Sound
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD

This sunday SWAMP will have a meeting in Bolsward in order to prepare a new Album
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:15:00 GMT

Swamp support act The Wise Guys

We have been asked to be support act for the German a capella group The Wise Guys in Berlin (Waldbuhne) and Cologne (Köln) (Tanzbrünnen). The Wise Guys are playing to audiences throughout the German-...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:18:00 GMT

More and more video's poppin' up.

There's a live footage from our concert in café "de Amer". This is small but beautiful stage somewhere in the Netherlands. Many great musicians from all over the world paid it a visit and so did we ;-...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:41:00 GMT

New video footage on youtube

We've discovered some new video footage on YouTube. Check it out!
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:37:00 GMT

Swamp Grandmere's two step

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0UsR-QPsU Come to see the video of SWAMP live.
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Heimathaus TWIST

The Adience was wonderfull yesterday evening in TWIST (Germany) See you there next time
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:49:00 GMT

Jazzfestival Neubrandenburg

..SWAMP is back home from a very succesfull weekend at the Jazzfestival in Neubrandenburg. We are lloking forward to our next Gig in  the Heimathaus at Twist in Germany on Saturday the 12th of Ap...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:05:00 GMT

SWAMP is preparing for Germany this weekend (Jazz Frühling Neubrandenburg) 3 Gigs

5.4.2008/14:00 on Boulevard Neubrandenburg Turmstr. 1317033 Neubrandenburg (Center of the boulevard)5.4.2008/23:30 Old MillJahnstraße 3a17033 Neubrandenburg 6.4.2008/ 14:00 Old MillJahnstraße 3a ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:52:00 GMT

Download Voyage d’Amour at iTunes store

Buy our CD at iTunes.
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:00 GMT

Invitation

Hello swamp friends, Welkom to our blog.Feel free to visit our website at www.swamp.nl Best regards, Swamp
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:23:00 GMT