\u201cVery Cool People\u201d is an instrumental jazz-funk band originated in Riga, Latvia. With a backbone in jazz and funk, incorporating influences from rock and hip-hop, \u201cVery Cool People\u201d is creating modern and listenable music for a wide audience. While using contemporary tools, the band is trying to bring jazz & funk back to the dance floor and make it more accessible to ordinary, nowadays people. \u201cVery Cool People\u201d is an active-gigging band in which all the members love & enjoy performing live shows more than anything.<\/p>\n
“Very Cool People” starting from June, each month, will release a new live video with tunes from band’s latest album “Heya Some Kind Of Fish …” – Camel’s Desert Party, Cats Do not Speak, Squash Express and Conde De Pimientos.<\/p>\n
The video was created in cooperation with director Valdis Krumins and one of the hip Riga venue “One One”. \u201cThese videos have captured the essence of the album” emphasizes VCP’s leader and guitarist Elvijs Grafcovs. \u201cThese are our favourite four tunes from the album & they perfectly represents spirit of the album.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHeya Some Kind of Fish! We Don\u2019t Know The Name Of This Fish In English, But In Latvian It Is Vimbas\u201d released in 2017 is VCP’s fourth album so far represents pieces of a symbiosis between the different allied music styles – funk, soul, jazz, klezmer, Balkan & Latvian folk music. In 2015 they released their third album \u201cFunkology\u201d which also features guest artists – fantastic soul & jazz singers from Latvia. In 2012 the group released their second instrumental album \u201cCruising In The Trolley\u201d. In June 2009 the band released their self-titled debut album. All of the band’s albums have been nominated in different Latvian Music Awards categories such as Best Jazz, Jazz & Blues, Instrumental, Best Debut, and the band’s stop-motion video for the song Hugo was nominated as best Latvian Music video of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cVery Cool People\u201d is an instrumental jazz-funk band originated in Riga, Latvia. With a backbone in jazz and funk, incorporating influences from rock and hip-hop, \u201cVery Cool People\u201d is creating modern and listenable music for a wide audience. While using contemporary tools, the band is trying to bring jazz & funk back to the dance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n