Slowly volatile smoke. Review / Day Review of Riga Fashion Concert
Riga Fashion – undressing you with your eyes… – The band sang in one of their early hits Komsomol, When the first time after a British fan of John Jill, I went to obey these musicians Pub pharmacy in the basement. I found that comparisons with Pulp It is easy to exaggerate, but people have such nature – as soon as something new and hopeful appears, its value try to raise the value compared to a known benchmark. Fast alone Komsomol Realized that such a year of Soviet occupation will be the name of the heavy spokes in the heavy spokes (perhaps at the moment it is disturbing the group Perestroika), and renamed himself Riga fashion. Although such a name resembles the same time, no longer the organization of the new communism lamps, but the eternal longings of people look more elegant to stand out on the background of gray mass with some finer, unpaid clothing in stores. It once called the exclusive clothing sewing house occupied by the capital of Latvia on Central Street and also a colored magazine with clothing.
Phrases that remain in memory
When the group has existed for at least ten years and has recorded more than one plate, discussion of the name is usually no longer up to date, but the case with Riga fashion is special for another reason. Just like in the eighties, the Los Angeles Sintpop Groups Berlin Is this century Boston punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls In case, too Riga Fashion It is possible to give a misconception of its geographical origin, as the association was originated in Ogre in 2008.
The face of the group – vocalist and guitarist Kalvis Bormanis – made everyone aware in the first interviews that the collective was playing pop music, which happened at a time when the term in the music environment had become a lame word. Almost no one wanted to be « pop », trying to infiltrate in a hand, Indian or alternative music field, because it immediately sounded respectable. The newly baked pop group often included memorable, slogans -like phrases in their texts, which can be identified by anyone who is still looking for or at least pretending to be the right place in life. Hip Hop often uses fragments cut from older recordings, or Semplus, while Riga fashion borrows and plays or sings some significant or simply -pleasing textual or musical phrases, making them the components of their compositions.
The business card of Kalvis Borman has also become indoor smoking on the stage in recent decades, as we all remember how stunningly David Bowie, Nick Keiv and Sergeant Gensbour looked, wrapped in their own lungs.
Group Riga Fashion Still somewhere in the middle between pop music and underground – until recently he has played beer coupons and on such a concert in a purely polite filled Palladium Riga He could only dream of the hall. About the following words among the songs of the concert’s introductory part, Kalvis Bormanis sincerely thanks all those gathered on April 25th. Something near Palladium Entrance before the concert as big a row as recently on metalists Satyricon and Behemoth Not seeing the film back, it does not seem at all that the legs of this group are still so -called underground – slowly and persistent artists have broken out of the limited list of listeners. The more unknown face vision at the concert, the more joy of the musicians who have succeeded in what they aspire to.
Songs at first California and EVERYBODY HURTS from the harvest of recent years, then Kalvis distinguishes Greatest hits a section (New girlfriend Qualifying the first night), then the applications again and again hear the strange « go out », with these words applying for another song, rather than reporting someone who is currently walking out for a walk, for example, with a dog or an anklay that Salvador Dali had chosen as his pet. Probably such a form sticks to intense English everyday use, but Kalvis allows to forgive the fact that all songs are in Latvian.
Songs for all generations
Riga Fashion In addition to all -witty and stylish quotes heard somewhere, you also invite guests from different scenes and generations to get involved in their records. At the concert this time they are three: Ansis sneak songs She’s parties Advanced rap lot and more of its own pieces Handbut wait for something else in a bonus (eg, the recent reborn first hit Indivisible) from Ainars Mielava fails – he joins for a short while to heal his long -term groups with Kalvi New Moon songs Your super shop cover version. The third guest is Anete Stuck – the original group Riga Fashion The keyboardist, the second vocals and the Daile, which has been replaced by the singing Madara Gaile for some time. Recently, her voice has joined Julianna Tīruma, which has been heard Love for life and Palladium a premiere piece Daytime in the recording. « There was no final shit? » – After the song, Kalvis, as his friends at the premiere with an acoustic guitar by the campfire, asked the audience, as it is to be published as the next single. Meant – done!
Katrīne Sabīne Kalniņa has become the permanent participant of the ensemble (Aston Kais, Dz, NSR)whose saxophone greatly enriches the sound of the group, and now the group Riga Fashion sounds much more related to the pop stars of the last century Australian INXS – Riga Fashion It is also like to remind others, without whom our sound world would be poorer on this earth. Kalvis Bormanis is like a spider, or sponge, who is constantly looking for and finding new references to play. Of course, with a huge collection of records and erudition, Marek Amerik, a drummer of the band, is a lot of jazz companies Jersika Records manager as well as groups Satellites LV Rhythm Commander and Vinilde. Basist Andris Apinis and guitarist Reinis Papulis have not been played in other line -ups at least in recent years, and they are like two chess towers, which can always be relyed on that all things in song life process will be in place, sometimes both shine with solopies. Of course, self -built, alternated, other reinforced sound strings note only by a group, and the play skills of musicians have developed to a level that sometimes not enough hands, and another guitar, hiding behind Reina’s back, Palladium Patrick Piternieks passed.
Every lover of group already has their own personal concert culmination, but if you are lucky with the location closer Palladium The hall of the hall in the middle of the concert could be enjoyed on the folding metal staircase alone with the acoustic guitar performed by the author’s favorite song by the author’s favorite latest album album Lovem – Witty word games are another business card of the band, and at least for the time being, musicians are able to overdo them or enter oats, which could turn it into a television show -like circus. Beautiful gesture is the groups performed at the end of the concert Martha’s blood song – this is a reminder that Martha’s blood On April 25, a new album was released.
Already after the concert, Riga Fashion admits that the days when I first heard musicians PharmacyThey have a bright memory themselves, so it is a sin not to mention them, including beer vouchers that were always missing, but now some good do not even need them. So I did not fully fell Kalvis when he was justified after the concert, without the slightest disruption of diction, that he had not been ordinary mineral water in the plastic bottle from which he had sipped something during the concert, but a special drink, as it was in Rock and Roll’s Bohemian.
Group Riga Fashion Rock ‘n’ roll is alive, and I am striving to agree that this has been the most powerful concert so far, which will not be able to put an end to the discussion for a long time. Next will take place on May 16 at the Old Town Club Depot – in one of the small, favorite places in which Riga Fashion And other groups have started their way. Then – on the night of May 23 at the Latvian Academy of Culture, on May 23 and the group’s appearance so far in front of the largest audience on Mežaparks Stage 4.
