OLIVE MESS

'Olive Mess' is a progressive rock band from Latvia singing in English, one of the most famous Baltic progressive rock bands.

Contents

History

Discography

Trivia

Links

History

The band was formed in 1998 by Denis Arsenin (Bass), Edgar Kempish (drums) and Alexey Syomin (guitar).
In 2001, the group released a demo recording made during a rehearsal, ''Live Without Audience''. The main theme of the record was history of Medieval France.
Later in 2001 more members joined the group: Ilze Paegle (classical trained soprano singer), Lilija Voronova (keyboards) and Sergey Syomin (Archlute, Baroque guitar).
In 2002 the band was signed by the French music lable Soleil Zeuhl and released their debut album, ''Gramercy''.
After the successful debut album, the band was invited to many important festivals, including InProg 2005 (where it had the honour to open the second day of the festival), Proguary 2005 and 2006 (Latvia's most importent progressive rock festival), and BalticProgFest 2007 (the biggest Baltic progressive rock festival).
Currently the band is touring and working on a new album.

Discography

★ Live Without Audience (demo recording)(2001)

★ Gramercy (2002)

Trivia

★ The band named itself in honour of the 20th century French composer Olivie Messia.

Links

★ The bands offical web-site '(English)'

★ About the band at Prog Archives '(English)'

★ A list with quotes from positive reviews on the album Gramercy '(English)'

★ About the band at the FREE!MUSIC Project '(English)'

★ About the band+interview with Ilze Paegle '(Russian)'

★ About the band on another web-site '(Latvian)'