Nostalgic pop (it turns out, there is such a genre too…) group “Kautkaili” with Kristini Paži, Didzi Bardo and Krista Kruskopa has finally released the long cherished and nursed debut album. It includes the previously released songs “Augam jenz no otra projem” and “Lauj man”, as well as a number of brand new compositions.
“Personal code” was created in the country house of the group members in Stukmani, and musicians such as Kaspars Vizulis, Rūdolfs Daniļevičs, Rinalds Maksimovs, Gunārs Gaumigs and “Baltic Groove Orchestra” led by Jānis Ivuškāns also took part in the process of its creation. It should be reminded that the precursor to the “Kautkaili” album, the song “Lauj man”, which was released in October, has already reached the top of the charts of several radio stations.
“It took several years to release our first album after going through a thorough and emotional centrifuge of doubts,” admits Kristīne Pāže, the band’s soloist and songwriter. “However, I believe that this process was quite essential on the way to finding my own sound and content. “Personal Code” is a post-therapeutic album of relationships – retrospective stories of experiences about ourselves, fellow human beings and our sometimes complicated Latvian nature. It is a one-way ticket on a journey closer to yourself.”
The album presentation concert “M/Darbnīki” last weekend was completely sold out (one could even say that it was absolutely completely sold out), but until the next opportunity to hear “Persona kodu” in a live performance, you will have to wait a little longer – the next concert “Kautkaili” is scheduled for March 22, KK in von Strick’s villa. “We are really touched by the unexpectedly large response to the album presentation concert “M/Darbnīki”, so we will meet in the spring in a slightly larger group,” say the band members.
PAR. There is no doubt that connoisseurs of Latvian music will compete with each other to come up with more glorious epithets to praise the “Kautkaili” album, and that’s what it’s all about – a very high-quality work! A breakthrough has been expected from Kristīne Pāža for years, because this talented musician is able to impress with everything she puts her mind to, starting with the stunning pop-rock with Aija Andrejeva and Agnes Rakovska in the song “Laime šija”, up to the latest project “PSPMS” with her friends Elina Silova and Evia Weber. “Kautkaili” is no exception – long awaited and finally welcomed.
About songs. Still not tired of the beautiful and intimately personal “Who’s First?”, “Let Me Be” and “We Grow Away From Each Other” are undoubtedly valuable, while “Caffeine Night” (yes, exactly caffeine, although “Cocaine Night” would sound more appropriate… ) is still infinitely sticky. On the other hand, “Longing” and “Kādā sāsa” immediately catch the attention of the previously unheard pieces, as well as the playful “Pavedieni”. It’s not even worth saying anything about the instrumentalist’s individual skills – Bardo and Kruskops know their stuff, that’s a well-known fact.
AGAINST. Minus – the album seems… hurt. The musicians obviously really went through a “thorough and emotional centrifuge of doubts” and “an essential path to the search for their sound and content”, trying to polish everything to maximum perfection, but thus lost liveliness – the album seems too sterile in sound. But maybe it just seems that way, maybe something more is still expected from Kristine Paže.
2023-11-27 20:08:41
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