In the renovated Kokari Hall of the Mežaparks Grand Stage, four concerts will take place, which will offer the audience to walk along their paths, see their favorite bands again or get to know new musical associations. Cycle Travel companions The main message is that there are different paths in culture that walkers will be able to walk with alternative music groups. Each of them is unique – each association that participates in the cycle has its own story to tell, its own way.
The first concert Winter road will take place on February 18 at 19. We will go on a joint musical journey collectively Sunday Legion a Tribes of the City. The stylistics and mood of the bands are similar, but each association has its own handwriting that has been honed for many years. The concert performance will be complemented by video art created especially for this event.
Association Sunday Legion consists of musicians from several ensembles known in the Latvian independent music landscape (Soundarcade, S.I.L.S., Tesa, Band versus Music) – Ģirts Strumpmanis (vocals, guitar), Lauris Ābele (guitar), Raitis Ābele (guitar, mandolin), Ivars Kalvis (bass), Jānis Burmeisters (drums) and Madara Fogelmane (cello, vocals). Sunday Legion the sound originally combined psychedelia, post-grunge, elements of folk and chamber music. The group’s work features both three-minute instrumental, lyrical poems and more than ten-minute “symphonies” with guitar solos and string arrangements. The band has released two albums Acid Rain Will Eat Our Culture a Good night in the middle of the sea record companies Naba Music/Melo Records under the wing.
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In turn Tribes of the City is an atmospheric Shugee group that has released four studio recordings since 2003. The band’s latest album Rust and Gold In 2019, he won the Austrian Prize and was nominated for the prestigious European Independent Music Prize IMPALA. Over the years, the band’s concert canvas has become even deeper and more expressive, the texts have become more direct and the videos more experimental.
Song Take Me to That Beach is the first single from the upcoming fifth album and is a tribute to Sārnate beach on the coast of Kurzeme.
In the ensemble Tribes of the City The play consists of Sergejs Jaramišjans (guitar), Ksenija Sundejeva (vocals, guitar), Ints Barkāns (drums), Jānis Liepiņš (bass) and Ivars Pommers (guitar).
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