Danu Siegrist

Dänu Siegrist (born Daniel Giovanni Siegrist on June 5, 1954 in Bern ) is a Swiss dialect singer and singer-songwriter .

Career

From 1972 to 1974 Siegrist gained his first band experiences as the guitarist of the Bernese art rock band Lindbergh. In 1975 Siegrist became a member of the band Span . He lived with the Bandkommune for six years in the Emmental farmhouse on the Hämlismatt, near Arnisäge. From 1977 he also worked there with Polo's Butterding . The formation consists of the band Span, pianist Marianna Polistena and Polo Hofer .

The collaboration with Polo Hofer lasted four years, from 1977 to 1981. Siegrist composed songs like Oh Ramona and Wägem Gäld for Polo's Butterding , which are still voiced years later by Polo Hofer's Butterflies and published on various compilations.

At the end of the 1970s, Siegrist's musical friendship began with the protest singer and songwriter Tinu Heiniger . From 1981, it led to joint tour and studio productions for several years, including the double LP Live im Chrämerhuus produced in Langenthal and the album Labe Wie Ne Chatz produced by Büne Huber . Heiniger's uncomfortable and profound lyrics inspire Siegrist to songs like Heimatland and Fahne Im Wind .

In addition to his work as a composer and lyricist, Dänu Siegrist produced the Span long player Tschou Tsäme (live at Atlantis Basel) in 1981 and organized concerts for the band. He reaches a deal for Span with the major label Ariola Eurodisc. Span Spanton Spontan's first studio album is produced in the Soundville Studio in Lucerne and contains the original of the title Louenesee . At first the song doesn't get much attention. Years later, the melody caught on with the public and the media and became an evergreen. Span achieved cult status through the song and their intense concerts with typical Bärner rock.

In 1987 Siegrist founded his own band. In the Sunrise Studio Kirchberg (SG) he realized the debut album Eins under the direction of Heiri Vogel . Together with Kuno Lauener from Züri West , who are also recording their maxi single Kirchberg there, he composes and interprets the song Niemer .

1989, as a reaction to a vote in 1983 regarding the transfer of the Laufental from the canton of Bern to the canton of Basel-Landschaft, which was in favor of Bern and in which the canton of Bern illegally sent 333,281 francs to Aktion Bernisches Laufental ABL and thus into the voting campaign let flow, Siegrist composed the song “Loufetal”. As a result, the Federal Supreme Court approved a complaint and the vote had to be repeated. The song "Loufetal" was released as a single by the Laufental youth movement on the occasion of the new voting campaign. The vote took place on November 12, 1989. It fell in favor of the canton of Basel-Landschaft and thus confirmed Siegrist's line of text “Loufe chasch nid choufe”.

In 1991, Dänu Siegrist released the second album I Mine Ouge with the Basel band . The former companions Hofer (I Mine Ouge) and Heiniger (Heimatland), as well as the Swiss blues harp player Dänu Krieg (Heimatland) acted as guest musicians. In the same year Siegrist and Hofer recorded the song Stars under the title Rockrat . The single served the Rockrat , which was made up of Swiss musicians, to campaign for more Swiss pop music on Swiss radio and television on the cultural-political stage.

In 1992, the Dänu Siegrist Band received an invitation from Zytglogge-Verlag to take part in the Matter Rock project , a homage to Mani Matter . Along with Patent Ochsner, Hanery Ammann and Stephan Eicher, Siegrist is one of 24 artists who interpret Matter songs as pop songs. He produced the title Ds Nünitram for this in the power play studio in Maur, under the direction of sound engineer Eric Merz . The Dänu Siegrist Band then realized their album Take Me With .

In 1994, Siegrist created a second mainstay in addition to his musical activity and founded the Northwestern Switzerland music network RFV Basel together with music experts, for which he worked until 2014.

In 1995 Siegrist realized his fourth album Dänu Siegrist Band and went on the Lysligi tour with the band unplugged . The song Fahne Im Wind , an oral arthymn against opportunism, is published on the sampler Swiss Band Aid , the title Ha No E Ring Vo Dir (guest musician Hank Shizzoe ) reached the rotation of Radio DRS 3.

In 2000, Wasser U Brot was the last studio production of the Dänu Siegrist Band and from the millennium onwards Siegrist began a series of solo activities as a singer-songwriter.

2013, in collaboration with the producer team Giacun Schmid, Darren Hayne and the Basel musicians Francois Terrapon, Luc Montini and Eric Gut, the soundtrack for the album Chansons Urban is created in the One Drop Studio (Basel). The Dutchman Pim Kops (De Dijk) is guest at the keys.

Discography

• 1978 Polo's Butterding, LP - Polo Hofer Butterding
• 1979 Polo's Butterding, LP - Tip-topi-Type
• 1981 Polo's Butterding, LP - Enorm In Form (Solo on Heisse Summer)
• 1981 Dialäkt Rock, LP - (Polo's butterfly: Heisse Summer, Span: Bärner Rock)
• 1981 Tinu Heiniger LP - Live Im Chrämerhuus (double LP)
• 1981 Span, LP - Tschou Tsäme (Live at Atlantis Basel)
• 1983 Span, LP - Spanton Spontan
• 1984 Span, LP - Unterwägs
• 1985 Polo's Butterflies, LP - 12 Butterflies (Compilation)
• 1985 Span, LP - Spanoptikum
• 1985 Span, LP - S'Zäni (Compilation)
• 1987 Dänu Siegrist Band, LP - one
• 1990 Tinu Heiniger, CD - Any Chunnt U Any Geit
• 1991 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - I Mine Ouge
• 1991 Rockrat, CD single (Stars, Polo Hofer / Dänu Siegrist)
• 1992 Matter Rock, CD - (various artists, Ds Nünitramm)
• 1992 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - Take me with you
• 1993 Tinu Heiniger, CD - Labe Wie Ne Chatz
• 1993 Swiss Band Aid, CD - (Dänu Siegrist Band: Fahne Im Wind)
• 1995 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - Dänu Siegrist Band
• 1996 Tinu Heiniger, CD - Morgeliecht
• 1997 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - Nights Like Hie ... (Dänu Siegrist Band: Take me with me)
• 2000 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - Wasser U Brot
• 2005 Dänu Siegrist Band, CD - S'bescht Mundart Album Wo's Git Vol. 4 (Dänu Siegrist Band: Nimm Mi Mit)
• 2014 Dänu Siegrist, CD - Chansons Urban

literature

• Higi Heilinger, Martin Diem: Muesch nid pressiere . Notes and notes on Bernese dialect rock. Zytglogge Verlag, Oberhofen 1992, ISBN 978-3-729-60447-6 .
• Samuel Mumenthaler : 50 years of Berner Rock . Zytglogge Verlag , Oberhofen 2009, ISBN 978-3-729-60796-5 .
• Marc Krebs: Pop Basel : The history of Basler pop and subculture, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-856-16477-5 .

Web links

• Dänu Siegrist - website
• State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Country, entry regarding the song "Loufetal"
• Facebook - Dänu Siegrist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rfv.ch: Dänu Siegrist - RFV Basel
2. ↑ Berner Zeitung: With the night train from Basel to Bern - Sam Mumenthaler
3. ↑ Hitparade.ch: Dänu Siegrist Band - Take Wed With (Album)