Transcript Brainstorm

The band was formed in the summer of 1989
in Jelgava Latvia, by four former classmates
– Renārs Kaupers, Jānis Jubalts, Guntars
Mauševics and Kaspars Roga. Soon after,
their classmate Māris Mihelsons also joined
the band.
In September 1992 Brainstorm released
their first single ”Becuase you Come”
and finished 9th in the Latvian popular
music contest, the "Michrophones"
questionnaire. After this came their first
album, ”More than loud” 1993.
In 1995 one of the band's earlier songs
“Airplanes" became one of the most
commercially successful singles
in Latvia and song of the year on Radio
Super FM. The band also performed
in Germany and the United Kingdom
After experimenting with alternative
music, Brainstorm returned
to mainstream music and released their
next album ”Veronika”.
At the end of the year, Latvian radio
stations started to play the song “Under
my wing is your home" , which topped
Latvian Airplay charts for 9 weeks and
became the biggest hit of 1996.
The next step to success was signing a
contract with Microphone Records, one
of the biggest record companies
in Latvia and releasing the next
album, ”Everything`s the Way you Want
it” in 1997.
Brainstorm's first international single was
recorded in 1998 in Germany with Volker
Hinkel, the producer of Fool's Garden. This
single was “Under my wing is your home".
The single was aired in the Baltic States and
also other countries. Soon after this, the
band was awarded the Grand Prix prize at
the Karlshamn music festival in Sweden.
In 1999 Brainstorm released their fourth
international album ”Among The Suns” .The
album was recorded
in Sweden and Denmark.
On 13 May 2000 in Sweden, in only 3
minutes
Brainstorm
became
an
internationally noticed band when they
participed in the 45th Eurovision song
contest. Their song "My Star" achieved
3rd place among 24 contestants. "My
Star"
was
played
internationally
thereafter.
The Online album was released in 2001 –
”Kitten who declined Sea school”. The
video was shot in Prague. The second
single "Waterfall" also achieved success
and had a video which was shot
in Finland.
The next album ”Days as an airfield too
far” or ”A Day Before Tomorrow” was
released in 2003. The lead singles of this
album – "Colder" and "A day before
tomorrow"– were produced by German
producer Alex Silva. The majority of the
album was Produced by Steve Lyon, UK
producer ( Depeche Mode, The Cure,
Reamonn, Amplifier). The album was
recorded in Germany and Denmark.
In 2003 Brainstorm were the support
band for The Rolling Stones at their
concert in Prague. Brainstorm presented
a saxophone to Mick Jagger for his
birthday.
In 2004, one of the band founders died
on the night between 22nd and 23 May in
a car accident on the highway
between Riga and Jelgava –
bassist Gundars Mauševics or as his
friends called him – Mumiņš.
In 2005 Brainstorm released their
album ”Four banks”. The album featured
tracks such as “Four banks", “Autumn"
and "Pilot Tim".
At the beginning of 2006 Brainstorm
released an English version of ”Four
banks – Four Shores. The lead single
"Thunder Without Rain" became popular
in most of Europe and received airplay
on MTV Europe and VH1 Europe
In 2009, War, an album written singularly in
Latvian and Russian was released into
Eastern Europe with reasonable success, the
English version, Years and Seconds, followed
a year later with more popular audience
feedback, although the meanings of several
songs had to altered to fit English lyrics.
Concerts have been held by the band
recently in Western Europe and they
continue to gain popularity in the United
Kingdom due to their similarity to Beirut
(band).
Brainstorm's" album ” Years and
Seconds” was released in October 2010,
it was a compilation of the band's best
songs in 2000-2010
Pop-rock band "Brainstorm" will release a new
album ” Anothre Still Life” in May 2012
The new album was recorded at "Diarama Studio"
in the United States, "Courtyard Studio" in Great
Britain, "Ol' Ingrids Place" and "Singu nams"
studios in Riga.
The first single from the new album is in English,
but most of the songs on the new album will be in
Latvian.
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