Nils Kopagh

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Nils Kopagh (2000)
Nils Kopagh (2000)
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Retrospective (with Fink )
  DE 20th 05.09.2014 (1 week)
A Tribute to Nils Kopocht + Fink (with Fink)
  DE 91 05.09.2014 (1 week)

Nils Kopagh (born October 25, 1965 in Hamburg ; † October 10, 2012 there ) was a German musician and freelance artist who lived and worked in Hamburg. The singer-songwriter worked in the genre of German-speaking indie pop with influences from folk , Americana , blues and bluegrass .

Life

From 1996 to 2006 Nils Kopagh was the singer and front man of the band Fink . He wrote their music and lyrics and played guitar, banjo and harmonica. In Hamburg-St. Pauli he ran the small gallery "NEW" . While Nils Kopckt tried to separate his work as a musician from that as a painter until 2006, he dissolved this demarcation in the following years. Today his homepage also refers to the work of SAM. Exhibitions and concerts were sometimes combined with one another. As a visual artist with the pseudonym SAM. Kopagh painted pictures that are classified as cheap art or art brut . His pictures are usually characterized by a characteristic canon of motifs and a brittle painting technique.

Nils Kopruf died on October 10, 2012 at the age of 46 in Hamburg of cardiac arrest as a result of an inflammation of the heart muscle . Koprauch was married to the lawyer Katrin Busch, with whom he had a son.

SAM.

Under the pseudonym SAM. Nils Kopagh was the co-operator of various exhibition spaces and, with around 100 exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, is considered a successful artist of the so-called U-art or off-art scene.

The artistic activity under the pseudonym SAM. began in 1990. On the side he also produced works under the pseudonym Gunnar Wikklund. He was constantly represented with exhibitions in the ART STORE gallery (Wohlwillstrasse 10, Hamburg). From 1994 to 1998 he was the operator of the “Karolinenstrasse 12 exhibition space” (Hamburg) together with Karen Koltermann and 4000 . Since 2001 he has been running the NEW showroom .

The City of Hamburg and the Hamburg Music Industry Association (IHM) awarded the HANS music prize for the first time in 2009 - The Hamburg Music Prize . Nils Kopagh was the first artist who was allowed to design the trophies for three categories of winners. He also designed the trophies for the award ceremony in 2010. One of the trophies was publicly destroyed with an ax following the laudation by the award winner Lars Lewerenz ( Audiolith Records ).

Band history

After the last FINK tour BamBamBam (album of the same name from 02/2005) the band split up, which was officially announced in December 2006. In the history of the FINK band, there had been frequent replacement. Once again a line-up change became apparent, so that Kopagh argued that the band FINK as such no longer existed.

On April 5, 2007, Kopagh released his debut album "Den Teufel tun" (V2 Records) as a solo musician. In contrast to the musical development of the last Fink albums, Kopagh reduced his new songs to economical arrangements, acoustic instruments and simple melody lines. Lyrically, the songs revolve around self-reflection and repositioning as a musician, the processing of disappointments and hope. Nils Kopagh himself describes his music as "big city folk". Due to the style of the solo album, which is characterized by folk and Americana, he is categorized as a German-speaking singer-songwriter .

From 2007 to 2009 Nils Kopagh toured in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2007 he joined a. as support for Lambchop . He made most of his appearances as a soloist, sometimes he was accompanied by former band members Christoph Kähler (drums) and Lars Paetzelt (bass), rarely also by the singer Meike Schrader , who also sang the background voice on the album. In addition to the new pieces, the live repertoire also included FINK songs.

From autumn 2009 Kopagh worked on another solo album entitled "CARUSO" , which was released on the Hamburg label Grand Hotel van Cleef . The release date was August 13th 2010. On the tour in August 2010 Nils Kopckt was accompanied by the musicians Christoph Kähler (percussion), Lars Paetzelt (bass) and Oliver Stangl (guitars, pedal steel). The band called itself since 2011 "Nils Kopracht & Der Wald". Oliver Stangl decided to leave the band in March 2011 to support Kevin Haman in his band ClickClickDecker . Since July 2011, Marcus Schneider (played with Home of the Lame, Olli Schulz, among others) took over the part on the stringed instruments (guitar, banjo, mandolin).

At the beginning of 2012, Nils Kopagh devoted himself intensively to working on a joint album with his musician friend Gisbert zu Knyphausen , which was released in August 2012 under the title "I". The duo performed under the name " Kid Kopphausen ". On November 26, 2012, the album was awarded the "Hans" music prize for the best Hamburg album of 2012.

collaboration

  • Under the project name “Hotel Rex” with the line-up Nils Kopckt, Günther Märtens (also active with Ulrich Tukur's Rhythmusboys), Peter Lohmeyer , there were several concerts with Johnny Cash interpretations on Cash's first anniversary of death. This resulted in further collaborations, such as the compilation article “Not the bees” on the edition for the 30th anniversary of Bear Family Records (2005) (see also compilation articles).
  • The band Fehlfarben released the album 26½ in 2006 , on which Nils Kopagh sings “These are stories” with Fehlfarben. Kopagh played several concerts with Fehlfarben.
  • In 2008, in collaboration with Gisbert zu Knyphausen, the song "Bones and Meat" was created, which was published as part of a compilation for the benefit of the Hamburg homeless initiative street magazine Hinz & Kunzt .
  • Nils Kopagh also wrote the soundtrack for the documentary "Water and Soap" by Susan Gluth , which was shown in German cinemas from April 30, 2009. The film received numerous awards, including a. the rating “particularly valuable” from the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW), the North German Film Prize for the “Best Documentation” category.
  • For the low-budget film “ Madboy - Hamburg's Loudest Heimatfilm” by Henna Peschel , Nils Kopagh contributed the title song “Locked Door”.
  • Under the band name " Kid Kopphausen " a joint album with Gisbert zu Knyphausen was released on August 24, 2012 . The album is titled "I". In addition to Nils Kopruf and Gisbert zu Knyphausen, the quintet also included Alexander Jezdinsky (drums), Marcus Schneider (guitars) and Felix Weigt (bass, piano). The album was released on the Trocadero label.

Discography

Albums

Singles / EPs

  • 2007: Come kiss
  • 2010: cherries
  • 2010: the prospect

Compilation Contributions

  • Hotel Rex with Nils Kopagh ( Bear Family Records , 2005): Not the bees
  • Fehlfarben : These are stories on 26 ½ (2006)
  • On The Road Again Mama ( Pearls of German-Speaking Pop Music Vol.4 , compiled by Franz Dobler , Trikont 2007): Heimweh
  • Have to all with 4 (Wallpaper Records, May 2007): Do the devil
  • Kunztstück (Hinz and Kunzt, together with Gisbert zu Knyphausen , 2009): Bones and meat
  • In October 2009, the German music magazine CD inserts appeared on the 15th anniversary of Rolling Stone the song Like A Rolling Stone , interpreted by Tom Liwa, Cäthe Sieland , Nils Koppruch and Gisbert to Knyphausen
  • Hotel Rex (Nils Kopagh, Günter Märtens): Tanz Bär tanz on the anniversary edition for the 35th anniversary of the Bear Family Records label (August 2010). The cover illustration of this CD box was also done by Nils Kopocht alias SAM. painted.
  • Under my bed on the children's song album of the same name by various German songwriters (October 2015)

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  1. ↑ Chart source Germany: DE1 / DE2
  2. ^ Nils Kopagh is dead time online, accessed on October 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Hamburg songwriter Nils Kopracht is dead in Der Spiegel , October 11, 2012
  4. ^ Tino Hanekamp: The story of the musician and painter Nils Kopckt . In: Nils Kopracht + Fink work show accompanying book. Trocadero Music Publishing, 2014
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nilskopracht.de
  6. ^ Home-made art in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on July 13, 2012, page 49
  7. ↑ http://www.musikwirtschaft.org/
  8. ↑ http://www.hans-hamburger-musikpreis.de/images/HANSPressemitteilung.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hans-hamburger-musikpreis.de  
  9. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motor.de
  10. ↑ Press announcement by Tino Hanekamp at the label Grand Hotel van Cleef, (July 2010)
  11. ↑ https://lieblingstape.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/gisbert-zu-knyphausen-interview/ Interview with Gisbert zu Knyphausen in February 2012
  12. ^ "Hans" music award: These are Hamburg's best musicians Hamburger Morgenpost, November 26, 2012, accessed on November 27, 2012
  13. ↑ http://www.wasserundseife-film.de/
  14. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.susangluth.de
  15. ↑ http://www.ffhsh.de/sites/en_1539.asp?a=&PR_id=295355430937925813999069383899&p_id=84
  16. ↑ http://kidkopphausen.de/
  17. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trocadero-home.com
  18. ↑ http://www.musicline.de/de/product/4000127170354///2618007

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personal data
SURNAME Kopagh, Nils
ALTERNATIVE NAMES SAM. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and freelance artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2012
Place of death Hamburg