Da Capo (BAP album)

Da Capo
Studio album from BAP
Publication (s)	August 30, 1988
Label (s)	EMI Electrola
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	Kölsch rock
Title (number)	9
running time	43 min 28 s
occupation	Vocals, guitar: Wolfgang Niedecken Guitar, vocals: Klaus Heuser Bass: Steve Borg Drums: Jürgen Zöller Percussion, vocals: Manfred Boecker Keyboard: Alexander Büchel Sound engineer: Hans Wollrath
production	BAP
Studio (s)	ICP Studios Brussels June – July 1988
chronology Ahl Men, Slippery (1986) Da Capo X for 'e U (1990)

Da Capo is the seventh studio album by the Cologne rock band BAP . It was released in 1988 by EMI Electrola and was number 1 in the German album charts for a total of five weeks, from September 16 to October 20, 1988 .

background

Over two years after the previous studio album, Da Capo was a comeback for BAP. Both with the album and with the first single to be continued , a top ten place was reached. Due to the death of the drummer Pete King , a change in the line-up was necessary. Jürgen Zöller, who had previously played for Wolf Maahn, was hired as the new drummer . After internal quarrels during the production of the previous album Ahl Männer, aalglatt , which almost led to the end of BAP, Da Capo was again produced entirely in-house. They went to the ICP studio in Brussels for the recordings .

content

City in No Man's Land is about the relationship of the singer Wolfgang Niedecken to his hometown Cologne and criticizes its urban planning . To be continued follows the lack of prospects for young unemployed people and the 'hanging out' until the next appointment at the employment office . In Shanghai , the impressions of the China tour are processed based on a painting bought there . Ob dä Lid vum Clown is a cover version of Death of a Clown by Dave Davies . Rääts un links vum Bahndamm describes the night train journey of a man who is still mentally with his loved one and yesterday's night together. Sandino deals with the conditions in Nicaragua and is the result of Wolfgang Niedecken's solo appearances with the band “Complizen” in the country torn by civil war a year earlier. Dat däät joot is a love song similar to Jraaduss and Do kanns magic . The season of the container is in the tradition of Südstadt verzäll nix and Stollwerck Leed and describes the negative changes in his home town , the Cologne Südstadt, from Wolfgang Niedecken's point of view . Fleeting is dedicated to the late drummer Pete King.

Track list

1. City in no man's land - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 5:42
2. To be continued - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 5:41
3. Shanghai - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 4:37
4. Op dä Deckel vum Clown - (R. Davies, D. Davies, German special text: W. Niedecken) - 3:43
5. Rääts un left vum Bahndamm - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 5:31
6. Sandino - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 5:27
7. Dat däät joot - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 4:32
8. Season of the container - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 4:25
9. Fleeting - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken) - 3:30

Released in 2006

The album was released again on August 25, 2006 by EMI as a "Digital Remastered CD" with a second CD containing the following bonus material:

1. Born to Be Wild (single b-side, live, " Werner-Rennen ", 1988) - (M. Bonfire; German special text: W. Niedecken)
2. Eez stands he Manhattan (Single-B-Side, Live, Munich, 1988) - (L. Cohen; German special text: W. Niedecken)
3. Provides üch vüür (Bläck Fööss & Fründe, "Imagine", Live, Cologne, 1989) - (J. Lennon; German special text: W. Niedecken)
4. Rääts un links vum Bahndamm (Live, Bonn, 1989) - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken)
5. Biko (Live, Cologne, 1988) - (P. Gabriel; German special text: W. Niedecken)
6. Rockin´ All Over The World (Live, Cologne, 1991) - (J. Fogerty; German special text: W. Niedecken)
7. To be continued (Live, St. Wendel 1989) - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken)
8. Shanghai (Live, St. Wendel, 1989) - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken)
9. Op dä Deckel vom Clown (Live, St. Wendel, 1989) - (R. Davies, D. Davies; German special text: W. Niedecken)
10. Season of the Container (Live, St. Wendel, 1989) - (K. Heuser, W. Niedecken)

Single releases

1. To be continued / Sandino
2. Season of the container / information about the artist
3. Dat däät joot / Op dä lid vum clown
4. Shanghai / Rääts un left of the embankment

To be continued was released as a single before the album and reached the top ten of the German charts. Saison der Container has no actual B-side and was released in 1988 as a so-called A-single .

Da-Capo-Tour 1988/89

The album Da Capo was presented from October to December 1988, initially on an extensive indoor tour. It was played for the first time in large halls such as the Frankfurt Festhalle and the Olympiahalle in Munich . Further concerts followed in the summer of 1989, some of them at festivals together with Joe Cocker . One of these events took place in the Berlin Waldbühne .

literature

• Wolfgang Niedecken with Matthias Immel and Patrick van Odijk: Information. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1990, 268 pages, ISBN 3-462-02072-2

Web links

• Information about the original album on the BAP website
• Information about the remastered album on the BAP website