The group «Very Cool People» will perform online with a new concert program / Article / LSM.lv

The group “Very Cool People” has prepared a new concert program, which will be presented in the online concert of the VEF Culture Palace concert cycle “Concert with Ostrich” on March 31 at 19.00, the representatives of the group informed.

The concert will be a musical insight into this autumn’s upcoming album “50 Years of Influence + 30 Years of Cool Equals 13 Years of Music Hooliganism”. The upcoming will be the group’s eighth album, and this time the focus is on the core members themselves without invited vocalists. In the album and concert program “50 Years of Influence + 30 Years of Cool Equals 13 Years of Music Hooliganism” jazz is intertwined with classical music, Balkan music with metal, surf music with funk and soul, choir music with klezmer and music of peoples living in Latvia.

As the group explained, the title of the album symbolizes the current situation in the development of the group: “All its members started their musical education in the late 80s and early 90s, when the training process in Latvia followed the 50-year tradition of the Soviet Union. Rhythmic music did not receive the necessary attention, but from the mid-1990s, music created behind the Iron Curtain was available to everyone – jazz, rock, hip-hop. In the early 2000s, before the band was formed, its current members continued their musical education in Latvia in the direction of a newly formed jazz education, as well as studied in Lithuania, Denmark and the Netherlands, where jazz and popular music education has a much older tradition. After graduating in the second half of 2000, the group “Very Cool People” was formed, which, experimenting and breaking the boundaries of music genres, has not only become a successful and proven musicians’ association in Latvia, but also purposefully paves the way beyond its borders. “

The mood of the new album is a mixture of the stages of musical development of the band members from Soviet and modern Latvia.

The group consists of: Elvijs Grafcovs (guitar), Māris Jēkabsons (tenor saxophone), Kristaps Lubovs (baritone saxophone), Laura Rozenberga (trombone), Oskars Ozoliņš (trumpet), Māris Vitkus (keyboards), Jānitā Olekšs (bass) (drums).

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