When asked about how the group “Very Cool People” found each other, Grafcovs tells the host Jānis Šipkēvics: “I guess there is a saying – one finds another, somehow. In the beginning there were already three of us. After that, another saxophonist joined us, then Māris Vitkus joined us, then someone changed, something else came, and then from 2014, for almost ten years, we have had this line-up – eight people as the basic line-up, and then the singers change from time to time.”
The musician states that the rehearsal process is like a filter for the band that helps build the repertoire. “Recently, there are several of us who write music, both me and now, in principle, all the members of the group participate in writing music,” says Grafcovs. “We are a bit “old school” – at first we play those songs at concerts and then we release them, then we record them.”
On the other hand, in concerts, the music created by oneself is literally polished. “You understand how they work, don’t you, and there are songs that haven’t gone away. I think that rehearsal process is one, when everyone is not shy to criticize each other’s compositions, is not shy to take another’s composition and write something down, then it becomes more organic, the songs become more organic. That criterion is ourselves, and we want to hear what we have written,” says the musician.
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2023-12-19 22:03:06
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