Many of the songs created by the band “Remix”, created 30 years ago, are still quite popular. Among them is the song “… at Laika” as a symbol of the Awakening, which won the “Microphone” poll in 1988. A year later, the band also recorded a record of the same name, which included seven more songs with current themes, but very little was heard because the original of the record was stolen and the songs were difficult to digitize.
Demand Freedom – the story of the band “Remix” stolen record “… pie Laika”Baiba Kušķe00:00 / 05:52
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Well done, and on Thursday, October 29, at the music house “Daile” there will be a celebration of the release of the CD version of “… pie Laika”.
In 1988, the song “… pie Laika” was released for the first time, “Remix”, which accurately reflected the longing for freedom in the air at that time. Soon the band added seven more compositions in a similar mood, as evidenced by the song titles “Earth is Bitter”, “Transformation”, “Warrior”, “Sin”, which together form a very strong story saturated with expectations of freedom.
Aivars Hermanis and Uldis Marhilēvičs were the authors of the passionate, awakening and sometimes quite angry message. Authors of texts – Jānis Baltauss, Klāvs Elsbergs and Igo.
In 1989, the songs were recorded in the recording studio of the company “Melodija”, in 1990 a record was released. Unfortunately, the songs were played very little in the wider circulation, because the original or the so-called master recordings were stolen from the sound recording studio by unknown villains in the early 1990s. As a result, it was very difficult to digitize the records. Well done by Marek Ameriks, and the record will finally reach the listeners in CD version.
Out of a total of eight, the author of six songs is Uldis Marhilēvičs. As he remembers, it all started in 1987, when the legendary song “… pie Laika” was created.
“We tried on Wagner Street, in the hall that will now be renovated. And I remember talking about the need to do something in the spirit of perestroika, in the spirit of Awakening. Then I had such an uplifting, hymn-like melody. But … text needed. It takes a little while, and Igo gives me the page where the words are written – we demand freedom … We tell him – well, Igo, finish what you fool, but it will not be passed anywhere …
At that time, it was barely 1987, when nothing so great had moved yet, even though the winds were already there, the writers began to “rise”. But no one could afford it on a daily basis at that time.
But in connection with that song, we managed to hold on, we also managed to perform it at the Jurmala Festival, ”says Uldis Marhilēvičs.
Grupa “Remix”
Photo: Jānis Deinats
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In 1988, “Remix” participated in the All-Union competition for young soloists “Jūrmala” as guests. Until the last moment, they had managed to keep the content of the song “… pie Laika” a secret. And then, dressed defiantly, they came on stage and sang a loud demand for freedom to the Fatherland, which was broadcast live throughout the former Soviet Union.
Uldis Marhilēvičs remembers: “Everyone there was neat, beautiful, tested. And we dressed in such torn jeans, without a little or like from the musical “The Miserable”, in such almost or stomachs, obviously we tried to position ourselves as rebels. That’s why we were “vaccinated” until the last moment.
Well then we sang that song. There was a jury, the maestro in the middle. It was a live broadcast. Nothing could be returned.
And then its quiet place at the end – “freedom to the Fatherland!” But what could be done there anymore? And that’s how the piece sounded. “
The other songs on the album, which soon gathered for the song “… pie Laika”, are equally demanding and full of flaming energy.
Uldis Marhilēvičs says: “There was no deviation there anymore, there was only forward, straight with a fist on the table, that’s how the lyrics and music were made. Now, from a modern point of view, from a “commercial” point of view, hardly anyone would write that, because the word was the first at that time, it carried on the expression of their music.
Today, of course, this spirit is not in such feelings, but somewhere deep in the soul of the people he is already hiding, this spirit of freedom and struggle has not disappeared anywhere. ”
The release of the CD version of the record “… pie Laika”, recorded in 1989, will take place on Thursday, October 29, in the cafe of the music house “Daile”, where the musicians of the group “Remix” will also gather.
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