Die Kaappunters (Live)

Die Kaappunters

From the creators of “Die Wasgoedlyn”, Riku Lätti and his wife Jackie, known for collecting and showcasing diverse Afrikaans singer-songwriters in their live shows and currently on their television show airing on E-TV Extra (Saturdays just after 7PM) comes the new Afrikaans Rock band “Die Kaappunters” in collaboration with well known producer and guitarist Willem Möller, Afrikaans rapper and poet Churchil Naudé. Completing the line-up is rising star drummer Jean “Tunes” Marais and Mark Louis Ellis on Bass.

Die Kaappunters were born after Covid restrictions cancelled a planned Gereformeerde Blues Band tour and time and isolation at home meant the birth of a bunch of new Afrikaans Rock songs best described as melodic, comedic political satire. The songs were recorded on Strand’s side of False bay in Riku Lätti’s studio and sent to Willem Möller’s Sharp studio in Glen Cairn, close to Cape Point. When it came to picking a name for the new band it was almost as if the name picked itself: what do you call a band that comes from Kaappunt? Die Kaappunters of course!

The music is energetic and uplifting even though the lyrical content is at times quite hard hitting, it is laced with humour and pathos. Churchil Naudé with his easy flowing rap-style, critically acclaimed poetry in Capetonian Afrikaans nests neatly within the alternative rock style of music, Out of this collaboration emerges a truly uniquely South African Musical experience ready to showcase to the world what Die Kaappunters, the Afrikaans Rockers van die Suide, have been up to.

Listen to Die Kaappunters’ latest release: Bobotie

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/diekaappunters/bobotie-feat-riku-ltti

Listen to Die Kaappunters’ debut album:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/diekaappunters/die-kaappunters

A story on Die Kaappunters 

https://letsgetlocal.co.za/meet-die-kaappunters-uplifting-the-spirit-mind-and-body/

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Die Kaappunters

Afrikaans Rock se Anker in die Suide

In die hoek, in die toon van die skoen van Afrika, die Kaappunt, kom daar ‘n groep gebore uit die vrugte van ‘n musikale ontploffing van die onmoeting tussen, Bettie Blatjang (Jackie Lätti), Victor S. Wolf en Wian Anders (Riku Lätti). Maar dit was nie voor almal uitgenooi was na die Karring Kaappunter (Willem Möller) glansgeleentheid by die braai met Churchil Naude wat almal soos een siel daar en dan besluit het dááí oggend in Kaappunt, saam met Markus Oralrus (Mark Louis Ellis) en Vuilsak Van Staden (Jean Marais), die tromme af te stof, die amps oop te draai, die kitare uit te haal in te prop en af te skop met ‘n lekker harde nommer wat die bure buurte ver laat hoor het:

  Dagsê, wêreld  

ons is

Die Kaappunters

en nou gaan ons

Ruk en Rol

Die musiek van Die Kaappunters spreek die diep filosofiese idees van ons tyd aan met humor en melodie sodat ons die waarhede van die wêreld kan ondersoek sonder om moedeloos of siek en sat daavoor, of oorweldig te word deur die grootheid van alles. Op die ou end is dit ons, die mens, wat hier en nou is, wat die kans het om te lewe, wat ons nou moet geniet, môre is te laat, soos die lied “Moeilikheid” dit stel:

Een vir een

Elke dag geseën

Van sonsak toe

Tot weer begin

Die tyd is min

Maar nietemin

Gryp elke oomblik 

Een vir een  

—-- English short bio —-

Afrikaans Alternative Rock has a new Anchor in the South: Die Kaappunters!  

Born from the musical explosion that took place one afternoon in Cape Point at the recording studio of Karring Kaappunter, when Bettie Blatjang, Wian Anders and Victor S. Wolf got together with the rapper Churchil Naudé, originally from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape but currently residing in Mitchell’s Plain, just around the corner from Kaappunt, thus a local for all practical purposes. Churchil’s socio-politically charged rap has been receiving the attention of fans and heavyweights in the industry for the last couple of years now, so it seems a perfect marriage with the spicy alternative rock of Die Kaappunters that has never been shy to address societal issues in their music.  

The debut album of Die Kaappunters addresses the inequalities left by years of bad systems that disempowered people. But it does so with humour and compassion, arguing that we should aim to better what we can and not just to complain about wrongs, but to suggest solutions.

Musically the band draws from various sources, from the South African protest music of the 80s, the “Voëlvry Beweging” with artists like Johannes Kerkorrel, Koos Kombuis and James Phillips being three of the main inspirations. The luxury of having the songwriting talents of both Victor S. Wolf and Wian Anders in the group means that there is a healthy Lennon-McCartney-esque songwriting competition constantly occurring within the group. This is considered one of the key reasons Karring Kaappunter decided to join the group in the first place. Karring is of course known in the industry as Mister Volume, the guitarist for Die Gereformeerde Blues Band, the group at the forefront of die Voëlvry beweging, so it is only apt and with great joy that the Kaappunters announces proudly:

We are 

Die Kaappunters

And we are here

To Rock and Roll