Composer Helvijs Stengrevics publishes a song with Ziedonis’ poetry / Article

In the song “Nojausma” two generations meet – the young singer Agnesse, whose listeners have become acquainted with the single “Saku tev atā!”, While Helvijs Stengrevics is known to the general public as the author of the song “Believe, Love and Waiting”. This time the source of inspiration for the song is the poem of Imants Ziedonis, which is the basis of the song “Nojausma”.

“Having been doing business on a daily basis for a long time, I, as a creative person, also have a desire to create something new. This time does not particularly promote any creative expressions, especially looking for lyrics for inspiration for new songs in Latvian. One evening, walking through my mother’s constantly updated collection of poems by Latvian poets, I distinguished Imants Ziedonis’ collection of poems “Caurvējš”. This 1975 edition is legendary, includes popular Raimonds Pauls songs such as “Song for Joy”, “Latvian Sailors” and others. There was a poem for me too, sad – “Intuition”, I invented the title of the song myself, or “Through the evening chair”, which is the first line of the poem, because Imants Ziedonis did not give the name to this poem, “said Helvijs Stengrevics. He has successfully collaborated with singer Agnesse before, recording songs in English.

“You can philosophize for a long time what is said with each line of Ziedonis’ poem. When discussing with others, everyone finds a completely different meaning and idea. In time, my association also came, and I can say that I sing this song with personal experience and my whole heart. Hope listeners enjoy it! I would like to thank Helvis for the song and video team, which made it possible to feel the song even more in video format! ” said the new singer Agnesse.

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