Biography

Marie Kvamme, Barry Kavanagh and Håkon Larsen, Nystua festival, Eidsvoll Verk, Norway, 9 July 2010, by Lasse W. Fosshaug.

Biography:

'Beautiful, spiritual, melodic music... poignant music punctuated with moments of genuine joy.'

May 2011: the fifth album by Dacianos, entitled Fables for Another Time, is now available. It was recorded in Norway and features, in order of appearance: Barry Kavanagh (piano, voice, elka organ, pss-380 keyboard, guitar), Håkon Larsen (drums, egg, tambourine), Marius Kolbenstvedt (metallophones, bass, sampler, moogerfoogers, synths, zithers, baritone guitar), Marius Ergo (elka organ), Sara Cools Yri (accordion & glockenspiel), Marie Kvamme (voice) and Ilmar Wilbers (cello) .

Only Barry Kavanagh remains from the original band that first took form in Ireland and created two mini-albums, the mostly-acoustic Mis-showbusiness, released in 2000, and the second album , Hold Music, released in 2002, which went the other direction with drum machine and sampler. The Irish musicians in those days included John McMahon, who is a member of Rollers/Sparkers.

Over the next few years, Kavanagh was in London, UK , then he moved to Oslo, Norway in 2005. A collection of Irish, British and Norwegian recordings were compiled on the CD In a Weird Chalet 2004-2006. Dacianos then became a wholly Oslo-based project, with Håkon Larsen, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Marie Kvamme and Ilmar Wilbers all appearing on the albums Gratis? (2009) and Fables for Another Time (2011).

You can buy the five Dacianos CDs online from our shop using Paypal. You can also buy downloads from Gratis? on cdbaby and downloads from Fables for Another Time on bandcamp. Some free mp3s (ranging from 1998 to 2009) are available on this website's sessionography page.