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Biography
Count Gabba, Transilvanian and only survivor of the house of the legendary Count Vlads ascends from the dusty dry cellar in his stone walled property. Underneath his black raiment he harbours the secret of the tragic treasury of songs bewailing his unfulfilled love for a young middle class lady.
His heart beating in the rhythm of his musical work, Count Gabba avoids the light like the plague. Thus the black count faces the fatal decision between eternal life in darkness and the finiteness of a mundane life in the name of love and fulfilment. Centuries of suffering, pain and loneliness and the fervent longing for a human existence will now come to an end.
Count Gabba takes us on a musical ride through melancholical Americana, dusky folk and rattling country music. It’s show time! Raise the curtain, turn on the spotlight, here comes Count Gabba.
Count Gabba is a folk musician with an affinity to Americana and country and street poet with a penchant for melancholy who outgrew rock n roll. In his songs he raises the question of human nature. Count Gabba is looking for love, its meaning and exasperating nonsense but even thinking about the abyss of hedonism the answers he finds remain shallow.
The debut record «The Lady’s Gone. The Song remains.» contains 11 episodes and is a compact work of urgent profundity. Count Gabba knows about all excuses: nothing counts, nothing is reliable. Today never comes back.
«Burn Barcelona», «Eyes like Guns» or «The Deeper We Fall» sound unforgiving and accusing, «Sweet Senorita» and «Let Her Grow» remind us of times of intimacy and togetherness. «Headphones» is a tribute to the best: Bob Dylan and Lemmy Kilmister and bows to the heroes The Ramones and Johnny Cash. «The Greatest Show Ever» is an ode to his recently deceased friend and mentor Thomas Hösli.
Concerts
October 22, 2010
Casineum, Luzern
Hendrik Belden asked us to open for his hometown-show. Of course we will, although we are not sure yet, in which line-up we gonna hit the stage. So stay tuned!
December 18, 2010
Viadukt, Zürich
We were asked to play at this venue this spring. But since we were at the studio at the time we had to postpone the concert. The good thing about this is: The new record will be released on 17th december - so this is probably going to be the first show with the new program! It's a gig with the whole fantastic supergroup - and it's a double concert, again with the great Rita Hey.
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In those fantastic clubs the count already played:
Alpenblick, Basel
Altes Spital, Solothurn
BAR 59, Luzern
Blumen Gabriel, Sempach
Bundesplatz, Bern
Café Apéro Meyer, Luzern
Centre Fries, Fribourg
Du Commerce, Biel
Elvis Et Moi, Fribourg
Folk Box Festival, Frutigen BE
Herbert, Baden
Im Schtei, Sempach
Kaufleuten, Zürich
Konter, Wetzikon ZH
Kühltür, Grosshöchstetten BE
La Catrina, Zürich
Musigbistrot, Bern
Rheinpromenade, Basel
Schüür, Luzern
Sommerkonzerte, Biel
The Room, St.Gallen
Viscose Event Bar, Emmenbrücke
News
Lovely Rita
News from 04. August 2010Good news from the studio: Rita from the wunderful Rita Hey joined the Count for a duett! The song is called "Shame On You" and it will definitly find its place on the upcoming release. Both the Count and producer TobTob were completly carried away by Rita's stunning performance. Thanksalot, Cowgirl!
Successful Sessions
News from 19. July 2010The new Count Gabba Album is in the doing. The Count and his fantastic Supergroup have spent three days in the studio so far and the songs sound pretty... finish! A bit more work and the new release will be ready to charm your ears!
Give'em enough meat!
News from 15. February 2010Little bit of vegetable, loads of meat: The Count cooks his favourite meal on waskochen.ch
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The Count's Top 8
News from 13. February 2010From Elvis Costello to Social Distortion: Check the Count's favourite albums of the last decade on exit.music
Back To Studio!
News from 11. February 2010The Count is happy and proud to announce the recording of his second album. The recording sessions will take place this summer at Chevalac Studio, master of ceremony and partner in crime is again the mighty TobTob. The record will be released in winter 2010/2011 on goldon records. It is an honour that the Count's live band aka. The Fantastic Supergroup will join him for the recording sessions. Cheers mates!
VOTE FOR THE COUNT!
News from 15. December 2009The Count's «December» is nominated by Radio 3Fach for this year's KickAss-Award. You can vote for the Count by sending: 3fach 09 to the number: 9292. Thanksalot!
Another nice review
News from 02. November 2009The Daily Rock magazine published a nice review of "The Lady's Gone. The Song Remains." Read it here, if you're good in freench, that is...
Live Pics
News from 02. November 2009Oliver Gutfleisch shot some beautiful photos of the Schüür gig on 30 october. Thanks!
December - New Radio Edition!
News from 22. July 2009Listen to the new radio edition of «December» on MX3.
Number 1!
News from 13. June 2009Count Gabba's «December» hit number one in the charts of Radio Chico! Hooray!
Photos nominated by 78s
News from 10. June 2009The pictures taken by Mo Henzmann for the «The Lady's Gone. The Song Remains.» release have been nominated for «Best Swiss Band Photo»! To vote for Mo's terrific work or to post a comment please visit 78s.
Special Lady Guest
News from 09. June 2009The Count is delighted to announce a very special guest for the next duo show on 2 July at La Catrina (Zurich): The wonderful Lady Clarissa will hit the stage and join the Count and the Gravedigger. This will not only increase the level of beauty exposed to the eyes of the audience - with her violin she will definitly charme and spoil your ears, too!
Open Mic Sessions
News from 02. May 2009The holy open-mic sessions are taking place again tonite at Jazzkantine in Lucerne Rock City! The Count will be there with his two old buddies Mart and Mike to play a few Meyer songs. Come along and sing along!
Another Review
News from 25. March 2009Check out another review of «The Lady's Gone. The Song Remains». It's, well, nice...
Gabba at Gaffa!
News from 22. March 2009On sunday 22 March the count will be on gaffa, the highly recommended program of radio 3fach: 2 hours of great music, serious talking and entertaining fun! Starts at 8 pm.
The Count Online!
News from 20. February 2009Welcome to countgabba.ch, the small but most beautiful webpage of Count Gabba. Find here everything you need to know about the Count: Latest news, upcoming shows and of course all the dark secrets about the Count's dark soul. A loud «Hail Rock'n'Roll» to Benjamin Ogg, the frighteningly talented and highly recommended creator of this site! Cheers, mate!
Become A Fan!
News from 19. February 2009All you 170 million Facebook users: You can now become an official Count Gabba fan! Just search for «Count Gabba» on Facebook and submit. You will be served with the hottest news and the dirtiest details of the Count's universe. A Must!
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Links
MY SPACE www.myspace.com/countgabba
MX3 The Swiss Music Portal www.mx3.ch/artist/countgabba
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