About Us and Our Music

A Fusion of Elements from Post-Rock, Jazz-Rock, Art-Rock, New Age and World Music

About Dokapi

The name DOKAPI stems from the Esperanto du kapoj (two heads), the duo formed by guitarist Titus Köstler-Philipp and pianist Tilman Sommer. Since the late 80ies the musicians are composing contemplative tracks using elements from Jazz-Rock, Post-Rock, New Age and World Music. The distinctive features are the frequent improvisations by guitar and piano, the emphasis of rhythm and the balance of acoustic and electronic sounds.

Harmonic Waves

Beautiful, atmospheric downtempo Jazz-Rock music based on strong melodies and soulful solos featuring guitar and piano as lead instruments

The music combines harmonic melodies, improvisations and multi-faceted sounds from guitars and keyboards carried by a concise rhythmical background to soundscapes, and associations come to mind with moods or landscapes, such as with the tracks Blue Nite, Sentimental Notes, Savannah, Silver Creek.

The tracks are usually kept in downbeat tempo. As lead instruments, e-guitar and piano are forming a well-fitting symbiosis. The guitar sounds range from acoustical (Trek To Makalu) to very distorted (Blue Nite, The Streets Of Miami), supplemented by unique sounds, which have been generated by special playing techniques (Silver Creek, Savannah, Yucca, Space Odyssey). The keyboard parts also exhibit a great variety of sounds - piano, e-piano and other sounds including many atmospheric synth textures. Because of this diversity of sounds and the sound quality of the production as such, this CD is worth listening to also for the sound aesthete.

Ordering information: Catalog Number: DM200601-CD. UPC: 634479350252. Sources of Supply: click here

Released: March 2006

License: Creative Commons BY-SA-NC 2.0. More details can be found further down.

Credits

Thanks to Alexander Philipp for shooting the ingenious cover photo of a beach at the atlantic west coast of France. And very special thanks to Andreas Schmid for his generous "artist sponsoring" by providing professional support and advice to transform our CD design in the final artwork master for the production. Last but not least, many thanks also to Monique for her helpful feedback when adding the finishing touches on the album.

Creative Commons BY-SA-NC 2.0 License

In the age of Internet and MP3 players, even with our very first CD album we dared to try to distribute our music completely ourselves via our own webshop and popular music download portals on the Web like mp3.de and magnatune.com. In order to protect our work legally, we tried to put our own license conditions into suitable words. Luckily while investigating related issues on the Web, we found the very helpful project Creative Commons, which set out to do exactly this for all kinds of art work.

Among the various alternatives we selected the Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA 2.0. Basically, the idea behind this license is to grant everybody free usage of the music and even allow distribution and usage in derivate works as long as it all remains non-commercial. As soon as somebody is making money with our music we understandably want our adequate share.

The license allows to use the music very freely for non-commercial purposes, only restricted by the conditions, that our name must be displayed in an appropriate place, derivate works (e.g. as soundtrack for a video film) are only allowed if these works are published under the same licensing terms as this one, and that the license conditions are made known to the recipients. Any other licenses: [ click here ... ]

Examples for allowed usages are:

broadcasting the music over radio/tv/webcasting over freely available channels. If the broadcast/webcast reception is liable for costs (usually encoded channels), the usage is not allowed, since this is a commercial usage.
copy the CD as a present for friends or family or copy it onto your computer and MP3 player
usage of the music for a video as long as the video itself is also published under this license and distributed non-commercially (i.e. the recipients get it for free)

More information and the legally binding text can be found here: Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA 2.0. See also the article in the English Wikipedia.

Sources of Supply of CDs and Downloads

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