POETS OF THE FALL
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Биография: Группа Poets of the Fall (сокращённо POTF) была образована в 2002 году в г. Хельсинки (Финляндия), когда рок-певец Марк (Mark) и джазовый гитарист Олли (Ollie) решили записывать музыку вместе. "Мы проработали целый год. За это время мы поняли, что наши стили превосходно сочетаются и тогда начали сочинять песни”. Позднее к ним присоединился транс-индустриальный продюсер и музыкант Captain. Таким образом, POTF впитали в себя три различных музыкальных направления. Группа записала достаточное количество материала, чтобы сделать несколько альбомов. Они написали более сотни песен, и эта цифра постоянно увеличивается. Демо-треки с их дебютного альбома, который должен был выйти ещё осенью 2004 года, демонстрируют приблизительно одну четвёртую часть из их материала. Поэтому группе пришлось принять очень тяжёлые решения по отбору композиций для альбома. Этот выбор говорит о высоком качестве музыки. Стиль Poets of the Fall напоминает такие американские команды, как Live и R.E.M. Марк говорит, что музыка Live лежит близко к его основе. Но также он напоминает, что его тексты – это сумма многочисленных влияний и только одна третья часть принадлежит собственно Poets of the Fall. Название группы "Poets of the Fall" - "Поэты Осени", происходит от идеи совместить два понятия, которые неотделимы друг от друга. "Поэты" – это олицетворение светлой и позитивной стороны, а "Осени" - негативной. Конечно, совместив эти понятия, "Поэты" может звучать несколько по-детски, но это зависит от того, как вы представляете себе "Осень". Её можно рассматривать как прекрасное время года и тогда "Поэты" - её проникновенные творцы... Однако многие толкуют название группы, как "Поэты падения”. В неком роде это тоже верно, так как первоначальное значение слова "Fall” – падение, снижение. В английском языке "осень” переводится как "Autumn”. А "Fall” в значении "осень” является американизмом. Poets of the Fall были предоставлены широкой аудитории в 2003 году, когда сценарист Сэм Лейк (Sam Lake) из компании Remedy попросил Марка написать песню для игры Max Payne 2. Так родилась "Late Goodbye". "Парни из Remedy слышали нашу музыку, и попросили написать песню для игры. Мы естественно согласились. Сэм Лейк прислал мне свою поэму, написанную совсем недавно, и сказал, чтобы я использовал образы, навеянные ей для написания текста песни. Его работа очень вдохновила меня. В ту ночь я сел на полу в кухне, взяв свою гитару, и написал эту песню". С тех пор "Late Goodbye” была распространена почти через два миллиона проданных копий игры Max Payne 2 (не смотря на успех игры и самые высокие оценки, она провалилась в продаже, даже не обогнав оригинал. Было запланировано продать восемь миллионов копий.) Песня "Late Goodbye” вызвала большой интерес к Poets of the Fall по всему миру. Спустя несколько месяцев, "Late Goodbye" принесла поэтам первый приз на ежегодной церемонии вручения наград G.A.N.G. awards в Сан-Хосе (Калифорния). Церемония транслировалась по международному каналу MTV, а также по телеканалу G4TV в США. Успех "Late Goodbye” был огромным. Радиостанции многих стран поместили "Late Goodbye” в свои плей-листы, а mp3-файл песни разошёлся по всемирной паутине словно вирус! Сингл "Late Goodbye” был выпущен в Финляндии в июне 2004 года. Сингл содержал различные версии заглавной композиции, а также бонус-трек "Everything Fades”. Сингл вошёл в первую десятку финских чартов и не покидал их в течение многих месяцев. Следующий сингл назывался "Lift” и был выпущен 15 сентября 2004 года. Как и "Late Goodbye”, композиция "Lift Me Higher" сопровождала титры, но на этот раз не в игре, а в программе-бенчмарке 3DMark05 (ряд графических тестов, подсчитывающих производительность видеосистемы компьютера), которая была скачана с сайта производителя около одиннадцати миллионов раз! Бонусный трек на сингле "Lift” – это баллада "The Beautiful Ones", которая продолжает романтическую линию песен POTF. Главные радиостанции Финляндии включили "Lift” в свой репертуар, а позже песня заняла второе место в категории "Лучший трек года”, оставив позади такие хиты, как "Nemo” от Nightwish. Выход дебютного альбома обещал быть самым интригующим релизом года. 17 декабря 2004 года Poets of the Fall сделали подарок для своих фанатов: они записали песню "Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day” специально для бесплатной закачки через интернет. Эта песня ранее нигде не исполнялась и не издавалась. А 19 января 2005 года вышел их дебютный альбом "Signs of Life”. В первую же неделю с момента начала продаж, альбом попал в список сорока лучших альбомов Финляндии (official Finnish TOP40 album chart). А в середине марта "Signs of Life” занял первое место, потеснив такие группы, как Apocalyptica, Nightwish, The Crash и другие. На диске вы встретите уже знакомые вам треки "Lift”, "Late Goodbye” и "Everything Fades”, а также ещё девять новых композиций. В поддержку альбома был выпущен сингл "Illusion & Dream”. Гастрольный тур группы расписан вплоть до июля этого года. К этому времени они отыграют около сорока концертов. Помимо родной Финляндии, Poets of the Fall были с концертом в Норвегии, и чуть было не посетили Москву! 5 декабря 2004 года (в канун дня независимости Финляндии) в клубе "B2” прошла вечеринка, под названием "Ночь независимости”. POTF были заявлены, как участники, однако своё присутствие не подтвердили. Думаю, что в скором времени они всё таки до нас доберутся, так как популярность их быстро растёт. Продолжение следует... //Небритый Пася (pasya@bk.ru) Домашняя страница автора: www.Xakop.narod.ru www.livejournal.com/users/pasya english wikipedia.org
The Poets released the singles Late Goodbye and Lift before releasing their full-length debut album Signs of Life in Finland. The album was certified gold in May 2005 and platinum in April 2006. It topped the Finnish Top 40 chart in weeks 4 and 7 of 2005, and stayed on the list for more than a year (56 weeks), which makes it one of the most successful self-produced and self-distributed albums in the history of Finnish music. The song Late Goodbye should be mentioned as the beginning of the band's popularity since it is featured in Max Payne 2 as the game's ending song, as well as a recurring theme in the game. The second single, Lift, is featured in the computer benchmarking program 3DMark 05 by Futuremark which has close ties with Remedy Entertainment, the developers of Max Payne 2. The band has won several awards which include the 2004 Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Award in the "Best Original Vocal Song – Pop" category for Late Goodbye, "Best Finnish Newcomer" in YleX's "Best of 2004", "Newcomer of '05" during Musiikki & Media Events, two Emma Awards for "Best Newcomer of the Year" and "Best Debut Album of the Year" and also the "Best Finnish Act" at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards. Poets of the Fall performed live for the first time ever outside Finland in Berlin during Popkomm 2005 and released Signs of Life in selected countries. The second album, Carnival of Rust, was released in Sweden in September 2006, in Australia, Russia and Ukraine in October 2006 and in Germany on April 20, 2007. The Poets are currently working on their third album, which is supposed to be released in spring 2008. A new single called The Ultimate Fling will be released in Finland on February 6, 2008. The whole song can already be listened to on the band's official MySpace-website Band history 2003 As stated above, Poets of the Fall were founded in 2003 with the collaboration of Mark and Olli. After a small amount of time, Captain came aboard. This brought three different worlds together to form POTF: a rock singer, a jazz guitarist, and an "industrial-machine-trance-man". It is also known that Marko was forced to move into his parents' basement when he couldn't keep a place of his own any longer. The Poets built a studio of their own in Captain's living room and kept an office in Olli's old car. In 2003, Sami Järvi, a scriptwriter of Remedy Entertainment asked Mark to write a song for their upcoming game, Max Payne 2. When the game was released, interest in Poets skyrocketed all around the world. Shortly after, Late Goodbye won first place at the annual G.A.N.G. awards in San Jose, California. The ceremony was televised on MTV International and G4TV, but the Poets were unable to attend due to arrangements elsewhere. Since then, Late Goodbye has spread worldwide on over two million sold copies of Max Payne 2. 2004 On June 30, 2004, the Late Goodbye single was released in Finland. It contained different variations of the title track (including the radio edit, album edition, unplugged edition, and piano instrumental), along with a bonus track called Everything Fades which can also be found on the band's debut album Signs of Life. On September 9, 2004, Poets' second single Lift was released, continuing to stay true to the band's style. Just like Late Goodbye, Lift too got a considerable amount of exposure as it appeared with Futuremark's computer benchmarking program, 3DMark05. The software spread Lift around the world in over eleven million downloads.[citation needed] The additional track that was included with the Lift single, The Beautiful Ones kept the band's poetic style. In all of their work, they have presented a sense of style that carries over into their albums. Fans from all over the world log onto the Poets of the Fall website everyday. Most of them are from Finland, U.S.A., Germany, the UK, and other European countries. POTF was voted as the fresh newcomer of the year 2004 in Finland. Lift won second place in the best song of the year category, Late Goodbye reached rank 7. The Poets started their Signs of Life-tour on October 22, 2004 with a concert in Tampere, Finland On December 18, 2004, the Poets released a net download single entitled Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day for about three weeks. After the song's release, the number of visitors of their website was over 20 times higher than on average days. It is still available for download at POTFmedia.com. "Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day..." " ...is all about hope. Hope, now, is a tricky thing. A real double edged sword. It is the sole power that keeps mankind on its feet. Heads up and at it. Even in time of crisis. An invaluable force of nature. But as hope can be true... it can also be false. We choose the way to go, but will the road set us free? I wrote the lyrics to 'Maybe tomorrow is a better day' in context with this duality. In other words, where there is hope there must be doubt. There is no one without the other. And so, devilishly, parts of the lyric can be experienced either as doubting or as giving true hope... it is up to you to give it meaning. ” — Marko Saaresto 2005 Signs of Life, the Poets' first album, had been sought after, receiving more preorders than what was expected.On January 17, 2005, it was announced that the album had been selected as the "Album of the Week" on the Finnish national radio channel YleX. After being released on January 19, 2005, it went up to number one in its first week on the official Finnish TOP 40album chart. It was certified gold on May 24, 2005, platinum on April 26, 2006 and has spent 56 weeks on the list. This makes Signs of Life one of the most successful albums in Finland released in 2005. Also included with the album is a link to a password-protected secret page on the website. On the page, a remixed version of Lift (entitled Dramadance Remix) can be found along with several wallpapers from the album book artwork. The album was awarded the Emma Award for the "Best Debut Album of the Year 2005" and the band was awarded in the "Best Newcomer of the Year" category. An Emma Award is Finland's equivalent to a Grammy. Signs of Life has also been released in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine and South Africa. On 13 August 2005, POTF's second music video Lift was released for Finnish television airing. From this point forward, Signs of Life has been released on iTunes in the countries of Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It went straight to number one in the Finnish iTunes-charts. On October 1, 2005, the Lift-video was made available for online-viewing at the Poets' official website. On November 9, 2005 the Poets ended their Signs of Life-tour with a concert in Stockholm, Sweden. 2006 On January 19, 2006, POTF won at the NRJ radio awards, they were selected by voters as the "Best Finnish Breakthrough". On February 9, 2006, POTF made an announcement of their upcoming single to be released on March 22, 2007. Carnival of Rust included two versions of the title track (a radio edit and album edition), along with an exclusive live recording of Don't Mess With Me. The live recording took place at Rockperry Festival, Vaasa, Finland on July 15, 2005.[citation needed] The single was released in Germany on December 1, 2006. On March 12, 2006, the Poets' announced their tour dates of the "Carnival of Rust" tour. It was also brought to the fans' attention that their drummer, Tapio left the band to pursue his career in photography. Taking his place is Jari. They remain close to their former drummer and wish him the best of luck in his chosen career. On March 30, 2006, the Carnival of Rust music video was released for viewing on The Voice and MTV Finland.The director from Lift, Tuomas "Stobe" Harju, continued to work with them for this project. The Poets' second album Carnival of Rust was released in Finland on April 12, 2006, after being delayed from its original release date, April 5. It includes 11 new songs, a remastered version of Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day, as well as the music video to the title track . The album went straight to the top on Finnish radio channel YleX due to fan votes and was recognized as "Album of the Week" after remaining number one for three weeks straight. Carnival of Rust followed in its predecessor's footsteps on April 19, 2006 when the Top40 show announced that the Poets would have two albums on their list. After a week on store shelves, the album went straight to number one on the Finnish charts. On May 10, 2006, Signs of Life was dropped from the Top40 list, where Carnival of Rust continued to reside on the higher end of the list. It was certified gold only three weeks after being released and platinum on December 11, 2006. The album has been released in Sweden on September 12, 2006. It was selected as one of the best albums 2006 by Finland's largest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat. 2007 In 2007 the Poets continued their Carnival of Rust-tour, playing 55 gigs in 7 countries. The tour ended on October 27, 2007 with the band's first concert in Asia at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur. On January 20, 2007 they were awarded the "Best Finnish Band"-Award at the 2007 NRJ Radio Awards. On March 7, 2007 the band's official webshop opened. It ships merchandise as well as singles and albums worldwide. On April 20, 2007 the Carnival of Rust-album was released in Germany. On May 5, 2007 it was announced that the Poets' Carnival of Rust-video had won the "Bronze Muuvi Award", as well as the "Muuvi People's Choice Award", having received 71 percent of all votes. On September 16, 2007 the Poets announced that their third, yet untitled, album is going to be released in spring 2008. 2008 On January 9, 2008 the Poets accounted a new single called The Ultimate Fling. The release is currently planned for February 6, 2008. The single will feature three versions of the title track as well as a live recording of Fire, the opening track of the band's second album Carnival of Rust. The live version was recorded during the Poets' performance at the Ankkarock Festival 2007 on August 5 | |
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