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Daap

Old, Nordic hymns translated into rock and world

About Me

Daap (meaning "baptism") plays old, Nordic hymns and folk music from 1600-1700, transformed into rock and world.The group comes from a small town, Vadsø, in Northeastern, Arctic Norway. The town has throughout the history been housing the indegionous Saami people, Norwegian settlers, Finnish immigrants and Russian traders. This, and the religious movement of the North-Nordic preacher Lästadius has made an important impact on the people of the town. Now the small town is represented by over 50 different nationalities and cultures. Among them, lots of refugees. Both the history and the present culture is what Daap want to reflect. We have used a strange combination of Nordic hymns, Congolesian songs and rhythms and 70-influented rock.We have been using different musicians, from Hammond-rockers to a Congolesian singer/percussionist.The Finnish immigrants from the 1800 developed their own kind of Finnish language, called "kvensk" in this Arctic area. This language is now forgotten in many places. The singer of Daap does not understand Finnish, but uses the language in some songs as he has been learned. Also, the languages in the songs are many; Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Congolesian and french.The instruments on the recordings are an old pump organ, Hammondorgan, analog synth, guitars, drums, bass and vocals.See and hear more about Daap in our homepage . See more about Vadsø in the blog of Daaps singer.
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    Member Since: 11/20/2005
    Band Website: home.no/daap
    Band Members: Geir Jørgensen, guitar, Arne Lindbach, bass, Halvard Mikal Sæbø, vocal.The recordings: Yngve Berg; Reed organ, Hammond Organ, analog synth, vocal Geir Jørgensen; guitar, Arnfinn Moen; drums and percussion Arne Lindbach; bass Lutanda Mayembe, African drums and vocals Halvard Mikal Sæbø , vocal.


    • Influences: Rock from the 70`s, folk music, world music, old hymns.
    Type of Label: None

    My Blog

    Back and forth...

    Arnfinn on drums has ended his "career" in Daap. And Arne came back on bass.So, then we are still three, with Geir on guitar, Arne on bass and Halvard on vocals.But we have some exciting cooperation w...
    Posted by Daap on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:09:00 PST

    Videos

    We are putting out some videos in MySpace from our concert at Varangerfestivalen 2006, in Vadsø.It`s captured from a festival camera with one recording microphone, a noisy, chatting audience and with ...
    Posted by Daap on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST

    "And then there were three..."

    We are reduced.Two of the musicians has ended the cooperation in Daap.This means we are now three;Geir Jørgensen guitars, Arnfinn Moen drums and Halvard Mikal Sæbø, vocal.But we work steady on. We hav...
    Posted by Daap on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:15:00 PST

    New bassplayer

    Simen is our new bassplayer.A young, very talented guy from a Fishing village some miles outside Vadsø.From now, we will have a long period of rehearsals....
    Posted by Daap on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:17:00 PST

    Varangerfestivalen

    The Varangerfestival in Vadsø in august 2006 was our greatest moment.Late at night, Saturday we performed at the Festival tent in front of the biggest crowd so far.The local paper concidered it the be...
    Posted by Daap on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:09:00 PST

    Nice concert, bad sound, nice kids

    The Skiippagurra festival was over june 2006. The biggest star was Finnish "The Rasmus". We started the whole festival. Were happy at stage. The response from the media and audience was "good", but ba...
    Posted by Daap on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:59:00 PST

    Concert

    Daap will perform at the "Skiippagurra-festival" in Tana, Finnmark, Arctic Norway in June/July 2006. Among others who will play, are the Finnish group Rasmus, the Swedish folk rock group Hoven Droven...
    Posted by Daap on Thu, 04 May 2006 03:37:00 PST

    We have been teachers

    In the 17. week 2006 we have been kind of teachers. For the whole week we were hired to teach 20 school kids at the age of 13-15, to produce, rehearse and perform rock music. Really a Rock of School f...
    Posted by Daap on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:53:00 PST

    Concert in Kautokeino

    The Saami village Kautokeino in Western Finnmark, Arctic Norway gathers thousand of people each year to the Saami Easter Festival.They have reindeer races, markets and lots of music. And much more on ...
    Posted by Daap on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:14:00 PST

    Demo

    We have finally made a demo of three of our songs. Two of them are now put into myspace.com. It was recorded late december 2005 and mixed january 2006. The sound of these new recordings are a big imp...
    Posted by Daap on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:21:00 PST