The Sound Poets: Reflecting on Hits and a Decade of Music in Latvia

TVNET GROUP’s online magazine “Klik” continues the program series “Pop trips”, in which we look back at the most popular hits of the past 20 years in Latvia, inviting their performers to a conversation. This time we are talking to Jānis Aišpurus and Normundas Lukšas, musicians of the group “The Sound Poets”. In the conversation, we highlighted the song “Over the mountains”, which has almost gained the status of an anthem.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the debut album “Your Story” by the group “The Sound Poets”. Upon learning of this fact, I, to put it mildly, I stayed on break. This is probably because this was yet another proof that time is running too fast. But how do the group members themselves feel about this?

Is ten years “already” or “just”?

“Pop trips”: “The Sound Poets” Photo: Jānis Škapars/TVNET GROUP

“The Sound Poets” announced themselves with their debut single “Emīlija”, but so far the most successful was the group’s second hit in Latvian – “Kalniem pāri”. The group members laugh that they are often confused with the group “Over the Mountains” – that’s how influential this song is.

Now, when more than 10 years have passed, the band members finally reveal what is behind “Kalnie pāri” and what it feels like to write a song of almost anthemic status at the age of 30, which has been played both at concerts and at private parties, accompanied by countless joys and in moments of sadness, and finally even played on the Mežapark stage at the Festival of Songs.

At a time when the “band” is a dying species, have The Sound Poets considered a creative hiatus? And what is their new “Over the Mountains”? Watch the moving interview in the video!

“Pop trips”: “The Sound Poets” Photo: Jānis Škapars/TVNET GROUP
2023-10-06 21:00:00
#INTERVIEW #Sound #Poets #debut #album #years #hills #downs #magical #evening