He stopped only on Saturday. Group Brainstorm New Album Dragon Instruction Instructions for Review / Day

A group coming from Jelgava Brainstorm For the fourth decade, a long part of this time was at the top of popular music. The first magnet of the thirteenth studio album of the ensemble, along with the playfully intriguing name The instructions for use of the dragon There is a picture of the world -famous musician photographer and friend Anton Korbain on the lid of the album. It is created in Barcelona, ​​where new songs are written in creative sessions, as is usually the case for bands that do not spend time together in everyday life as in childhood and early youth, when the main was friendship, not the duty of themselves as a merit -rich pop artist and also listeners who are accustomed to seeing something new every time.

Brainstorm Emphasizes that this album is recorded live, with everyone playing together at the same time and space. Musicians had already felt such a need for a previous album A year without a calendar (2021), which has been made by pandemic by mutual contact with technology – they allow you to achieve a perfect result, but a careful ear can still be heard that something is not breathing there, but we were all subordinated at the time.

Album The instructions for use of the dragon The material is written in creative sessions in Barcelona and recorded in Stockholm and Riga, led by Swedish producer Povel Ulson

Isn’t it too fast?

Instructions for use of dragon introduction On the first day It makes sure that the record is not played too fast, but not – everything turns out to be right. If it continued, after the first three songs, you could already fall off without breath, but then the pace stabilizes and you feel ready for a marathon, or at least that shorter race, as it is nowadays to be able to participate, not so much, who run forty -two kilometers. Arrangements in several songs enriched with wind instruments (especially dramaturgically fit – pieces Sandy and Pharaoh).

Recognitions for skillfully found keyboard timbre and melodies are deserved by Maris Mihelson, who plays Rhodes Electric piano album title song and currently up -to -date single Wanted to be a rocket In the introduction to the voice of Ojar Vācietis, then he quotes one rhythmically repeat note as the Superhita of the 1990s Winter accordion in the basic motif.

Whether every subsequent song begins, the feeling – or at least the hope – that this will be better than the previous ones is a good indicator if we rate the hooks that you hear on radio stations where you are not able to fully understand if you really like this song. And then you are intrigued to switch to a streaming platform to listen to it again, and also caught on the album. It is beneficial to the group, not special radio stations. There is no shortage of sticky and even tasteful hit in the traditional sense here, but the song is particularly touching romantic Melluzu station For a meeting from which the lyrical hero of Renar Kauper was left in the orange jacket. Because what else do you notice the first when you are looking for one of the only ones you just got out of the train?

As the album ends, I realize that my favorite time is the remaining two pieces – Let’s meet tomorrow and the last one – Borcey – With Maris Michelson’s piano and a blushed guitar of John John Jubalt, who is crowned in the final verse that it will once be time to learn everything. The conclusion of this composition to a DJ must be gently interchanged to the rhythmically compatible folk song You have to go, go away, I can’t stay here … And you realize that listening to the album was not in vain and no song there is unnecessary – everyone reveals to us from the chocolate ice cream finally grown up.

Under the needle again

Listening to a new album you want, needs or just « doing nothing » is asking for your opinion, how to work with a sieve – first you allow it to go through completely everything, making sure that all the content is already dry enough to avoid damaging you. After the first two ruins, you decide whether you are looking for slippers for the fifth time, rising from the sofa, and slipping over your music listening to the player at the player to put that red vinyl wide to listen to the third time, or however, to turn off the album for too much care. But the slippers are pretty and comfortable for you, Brainstorming The sound of the music does not turn in your ears, because everything is perfectly worked as always, and you make it wide under the needle turn again. And then it starts to consolidate more than the subjective dissatisfaction of the first moment with those « OOO-ō » choir chants, which are often found in our artists, Dona, Don, Astro’n’out, Aija Andrejeva – Records as such an additional emphasis on pop music. Of course, of course, this is probably a cliché that works on the masses, inviting this « ooo-ou » to vote listeners, whose words seem difficult to sing.

If we look at history who, though with this plague pop music world, comes to the old good Robert Plan – LED Zeppelin During this time, his cries expressed a wild passion, but in the later solo march 1993 song 29 Palms Those « OH, OH, OH » (English writing) were chanted by the singers’ choir, just like in the voice of the notes in the well -placed voices, just like in all modern examples that are not short of Latvia. Brainstorming For long -time producer Sweden Povel Ulson, it seemed quite fit, but he is not a genius who entrusts his songs that deserve something fresher.

Perhaps the time has been the time for the group to thank your Northern partner for their collaboration so far and try to work with another producer again? A good example of excellent results was in collaboration with Gustavo’s 2008 album There’s something there. In these times, it could be, for example, Alexis Lurins or Ansis, maybe Evija Weber or Sign Libra?