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Jape is the solo project of Richie Egan, bass player with Irish instrumental rock group the Redneck Manifesto. Very much the band's musical alter ego, Jape has little in common with the Redneck Manifesto, excepting perhaps the left-field but accessible approach both take to their styles of music. Jape's music is primarily of the folky singer/songwriter mold, with alternative rock and electronic overtones, and comparisons have been made between Jape and both Beck (a noted influence) and David Kitt, with whom Jape collaborated to produce the 2004 single "Floating." Richie Egan earned his stripes as a multi-instrumentalist in the hardcore punk scene of late-'90s Dublin, before forming the Redneck Manifesto in August 1999. Taking musical and methodological cues from the early post-hardcore (Fugazi) and post-rock (Slint, Shellac) scenes, the Redneck Manifesto issued their first single on their own Greyslate Records in 2000, and a year later were signed to nascent French label RedF Records....