"Deine Lakaien" in Riga. Quality. Professionality. Emotionality.

On 1st December year 2005 German band "Deine Lakaien" was in Riga for the first time. Yesterday, on 1st November, they were back to give us fantastic emotions in the acoustic concert in Latvia's University Hall.

"Deine Lakaien" started their way to popularity, recognition and fame 20 years ago. Ernst Horn has got professional education as conductor and pianist. And now his amazing performance on the piano perfectly goes together with Alexandro Veljanov strong baritone.
"Deine Lakaien" has released 8 studioalbums, several concerts, video, DVD and single CD.

There are no many concerts and artists that could give audience such strong emotions and such excitement during their performance. When listening Alexander Veljanov vocal and watching Ernst Horn hands on the piano, I got the feeling that man's talent and abilities are unlimited. Pianist hands' movements were so fast that they smudged. And if i was listening it with my eyes shut, I could not believe that it was just one person that created this music.

As it is said in their homepage, "the motto of their shows (before, during and after) always is: excitement, joy and getting away from the stresses and strains of everyday life".
I can fully agree with this statement. It was one and a half of hour of qualitative and beautiful musical experience from several albums. Emotions included everything from melancholy to smooth pain to expressiveness and explosion of the sounds and words. It is incredible that one person's voice can comprise such tenderness and such aggression. That amazing power and strength that was in melodies deeply touched every person in the audience.

It was a great pleasure to see that "Deine Lakaien" had assembled so different people - from alternative youth "in black" to solid middle aged men in suit; different ages, different interests, different proffessions but this evening they all together recalled artists on the stage twice. And it was really pleasant and agreeably to hear Alexander Veljanov saying: "This is the last concert in this years tour. We end this show in this beautiful city with this beautiful audience. This last concert turned out emotional a bit..."

And in the very end it was like in the movie about Mozart - all audience stood and applauded. And that is not just a concert any more, that is consummation of the dream in the real life.