Dadafon

Dadafon is a jazz - rock band from Trondheim ( Norway).

The band around singer Kristin Asbjørnsen was founded in 1995 under the name Coloured Moods and renamed in 2000 in Dadafon. The band's music is a mixture of jazz, rock and pop music, often mixed with elements of African music. So far Dadafon were commercially very successful, but praised by critics high. The first album of the band entitled Coloured Moods was released in 1995, the latest album Lost Love Chords 2005.

Band History

The band was founded in 1995 by drummer Martin Smidt in Trondheim (Norway ) under the name Coloured Moods (German -colored moods ). Besides Smidt included Kristin Asbjørnsen (Member of the vowel formation Kvitretten ), Carl Haakon Waadeland, Jostein Ansnes and Bjørn Ole Solberg to the band. The first album of the band was in 1998 when the record label RIM records, it was the band's name as the title. Asbjørnsen sang the songs of the album in a self- thought-out language.

In autumn 2000 the band changed its name to Dadafon. 2001, they released their second album And I Can not Stand Still (Eng. And I can not stand still ). The music is inspired by traditional African music from The Gambia, Mali and Ghana, as well as African-American spirituals.

2002 Dadafon leave their record company RIM Records and go to Via Music. In EP Release me ( Deliver me dt ), which appeared in the run-up to the new album, Dadafon was amplified by the cellist Øyvind Engen. Most texts are by Asbjørnsen, also texts of the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rosetti and Walt Whitman was set to music.

The new album Visitor ( German visitors) was published on 3 October 2002. The album was praised by the press and brought Dadafon a nomination for the Norwegian Spellemannprisen award a. At the ceremony of the alarm Award they won an award in the category Jazz. After the release of Visitor bassist Eirik Øien is a permanent member of the band, while the drummer and percussionist Waadeland and Smidt leave the band. Smidt is replaced by Kenneth Kapstad.

2003 Dadafon played more than 40 concerts, both in Norway and abroad. In September of the year they built their own studio in the port facilities of Trondheim and recorded the single And so we have to say goodbye. At the same time they signed a contract with Universal Music Norway. The album Harbour ( harbor dt ) was recorded in the fall of 2003. However, the album continues the musical concept of Visitor, this time with a strengthening of the rhythm section.

On August 29, published in 2005 Dadafon her fifth album titled Lost Love Chords (Eng. Love Lost chords). Most of the songs was written by Kristin Asbjørnsen, which this time also the other members of the band more involved. The songs I wish to weep (Eng. I want to cry ) and slow day ( dt Slow Day ) were used for the film Factotum by Norwegian director Bent Hamer. The film deals with the life of Charles Bukowski (in the form of his literary alter ego Henry " Hank " Chinaski ). During the 1970s in the U.S. Both songs are set to music poems by Bukowski. In addition, set to music poems Dadafon the Norwegian poet Anne Bøe and Tale Næss.

Discography

"-": Not performed in the charts

Awards

• 2002: Alarm Award ( Norwegian Music Award ) in the category of jazz.

Swell

• Official Press Information from the website of the band