On December 8, at 18:00 Latvian time, shortly before STandART and DE/VISION concert in Riga, Kalvis will take a brief interview from DE/VISION on Radio NABA. 93.1 FM near Riga or www.radionaba.lv

P.S. STandART’s concert in Jelgava on December 10 has been cancelled.

We are happy to announce that STandART will be the special guests of DE/VISION concert at Nabaklab, Riga on December 8.

Tickets available at: http://www.bilesuserviss.lv

Also, another date in Riga has been added; thus, making the list of the remaining dates of 2010 as follows:

November 20 – Panhead Pub, Tallinn, Estonia
November 24 – Taka, Riga, Latvia
December 8 – with DE/VISION at Nabaklab, Riga, Latvia
December 10 – MC Balerija, Jelgava, Latvia
December 11 – I Love You Bar, Riga, Latvia
December 17 – Fontaine Palace, Liepaja, Latvia

Tomorrow, October 29, STandART will be the guests of the Latvian TV broadcast “SeMS” – LTV7 at 16:50.

Thanks to everyone who made the “Pioneers” release party such a wonderful event. Our snow anthem, written in collaboration with the Polish musician Hien, is now available as a single.

Tracklist:

01 Pioneers (feat. Hien)
02 Pionieri
03 Hydrology (Live in Helsinki 2010)

Video:

01 Pioneers
02 Pionieri

Free audio download HERE:

Watch the “Pioneers” video and an insight into the single / video release party  HERE:  (don’t watch it alone in the dark!

In addition, all the official STandART music videos are now available in HD quality on our YouTube channel.

Our “snow song”, the new STandART single “Pioneers”, was written in collaboration with Polish musician Hien. “Pioneers” video premiere tonight at Nabaklab, Riga. Free download package coming up during the weekend.

At the BILDES 2010 festival, STandART and Goran Gora performed the songs “Rudens Vēstis” (Autumn News) and “Tādi Zvēri Kā Mēs” (Animals of Our Kind). This co-project was exciting experience for the band both visually and sonically. Photos by Kristaps Kalns HERE.

As a part of the co-projects concert of the annual “Bildes” festival,  STandART will perform a couple of songs together with Goran Gora tomorow, October 14, at Riga Congress House.

The concert is scheduled from 19:00 to 22:30. STandART & Goran Gora are to play at 22:00.

Support “Bez Miega Zirgi” (Gas of Latvia Mix) at Radio NABA LV Top10!

The song was recorded for the compilation “Strāvoklis” with various Latvian artists performing poems by the Latvian poet Rainis. The release of the compilation is now scheduled for Spring 2011.

Other participants of the “Strāvoklis” project include such artists as “Ēnu kaleidoskops”, “Rosewater”, “Židrūns”, Martinez Gonzalez, “Hospitāļu iela”, “Gaujarts”, “Bērnības Milicija”, Imants Deksis un TV Maskava, “Inokentijs Mārpls”, Imants Daksis, Jana Hermann, “Iļģi”, “Nepilngadīgā Anna”, “Soundarcade”, “Auļi”.

“Bez Miega Zirgi” is produced in collaboration with “Gas of Latvia” and Sandris Savickis (“Starring Two”). Its lyrics are based on a poem by Latvian poet Rainis, and the song was recorded for the compilation “Strāvoklis” with various Latvian artists performing poems by Rainis.

“Gadalaiku Cilvēki” is the Latvian version of the song “Season People” from the album “Autumn News”. The live tracks were recorded at Belly, Helsinki on February 19, 2010.

The video has been shot during STandART tour in Finland and Sweden in February 2010. The video for the song about animals and hunting features scenes with pupils dressed up as animals in Tampere, concerts with the Finnish band “…and the Ocean” in Turku and Helsinki, and scenes from KGB Bar (STandART played on Feb 27) and Tunnelgatan in Stockholm, next to which the Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme was shot on Feb 28, 1986.

Listen and watch HERE.

Free download of the songs HERE.

Latvian lyrics, as well as the English translation HERE.

Tracklist:

01 Bez Miega Zirgi (Gas of Latvia Mix)
02 Bez Miega Zirgi (Padome Mix)
03 Gadalaiku Cilvēki
04 Autumn News (Live in Helsinki 2010)
05 Lapsu Nakts (Live in Helsinki 2010)

Video:

01 Animals of Our Kind
02 Tādi Zvēri Kā Mēs
03 Sådana djur som vi

In addition, a couple of new concert dates are confirmed: October 14 @ festival “Bildes 2010″, Riga and October 23 @ “Nabaklab”, Riga.