Recently I’ve visited a concert of Brainstorm in Kyiv. To be honest it was inspiring in several ways, but one of them I would like to describe here. But first let me tell you a little bit about the band.
Members of this Latvian band Brainstorm are good friends since school. They founded their band in 1989. When Renārs Kaupers (solo), Jānis Jubalts (guitar),Kaspars Roga (drums),Māris Mihelsons (piano) are on stage, you are swept away with a storm of emotions.
Their songs combine two quite peculiar ingredients – pictured in Soviet cartoons romantic perception from childhood and a striving for change, movement and freedom.
They were admired in Latvia and after taking third place at Eurovision 2000 gained international acclaim.
They collaborate with musicians from different countries and ready for “brainstorming” experiments.
Enjoy the best moments of the concert in Kyiv (15.11.13)
Brainstorm facts:
1. The first name of the band was The Bagil five (The Best American Guys in Latvia). The idea of present name came from Kaspars’s aunt who called their music “brainstorming”.
2. MTV Europe Music Awards has never been given only since 2006 with Brainstorm winning with one voice.
3. At Skonto stadium in Riga Brainstorm played in front of 25 000 fans, breaking previous record of Depeche Mode.
4. Though Brainstorm belong to pop-roc, they original and quite untypical compositions in collaboration with hip hop singer Gustavo (Netherlands)
5. Photographer Anton Korbain was taking pictures for one of the albums of Brainstorm and fell in love with their creative and emotional songs. He became a real friend of Latvian band.
6. The band presented a saxophone to Mick Jagger as a present at his 60’s Anniversary.
7. This I heard from Renārs during the concert. The song lantern has a very special history. Producers asked all the members of the band to take a piece of paper and putdown what Brainstorm is for them Afterwards he turned these notes into verses
8. “Hory-Hory iasno” was written for cartoons “Snow Queen”. Its English version “Flashlight” was created by Fran Healy,“Travis” front man.
9. Video for song “Что ты тянешь?” (What are you waiting for?) were shot by Renārs himself with a special camera in his glasses.
8 Video for “ Maybe” was shot in Prague. In one of the interviews Renārs mentioned that originally the song was about a selfish person, but as you can see from the video this story has taken a more romantic angle.
Here I come to the point where I transform inspiration into action. Let’s learn to play it) Check out a video->>>>>>
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