Experience. January 2018

In the beginning of 2018 organizers of the Ural Music Night and representatives of Friedrich Ebert Foundation united five musicians who had not known each other before. It took them five days to create a super band Potato Boom.

5 musicians

strangers to each other

4 tutors

Baden-Württemberg pop-academy graduates

5 days

to create new songs

Band had a task: to record one song

The next step - to make this song popular and commercially successful.

First few days musicians spent in their rehearsal rooms.
Thanks to the graduates of the Baden-Württemberg pop-academy (Stefan Wandel, Alexander Braunbarth, Rutger Martens and Ivo Schot), project participants established communication in the band and made five songs. Then they selected two songs: a rock composition and a dance song.

Next days Potato Boom spent working in the recording studio.
In the period of education musicians had workshops and they had rehearsals at RecTime base. They learnt how to work in a team when you are a part of a music band and how to write songs and hold jam sessions. They had lectures on how European music labels function and they studied in details the process of promoting a song and a band in mass media and social networks.
Musicians had not only theory. They also did their homework and got a feedback from their tutors.

Five musicians of different age and backgrounds were living in nothing but music for one week. And as the result they had two singles.

Participants feedback

I was surprised that it took us only 5 days to create several songs and have a good performance with them. And all this with somebody you had not known before. Moreover, I learnt a lot from the frontman of the band SUiT. For example, new secret methods how to write lyrics. I am a vocalist, so it was very useful for me. Of course I was happy to have a chance to work with professionals in the recording studio. Having an interesting communication with all participants of this project is a great feeling.

Kristina Adamova (Bogdashina)

Vocalist

Friendly atmosphere, advanced tutors of European level, the high level organization - I will never forget this feast for my brains and soul! I want to thank organizers. I want to wish them to keep this level and new achievements.

Vladimir Sukhov

Keyboard player

It was interesting to work in the unusual conditions. It's nice that we had a chance to off the outside world for several days and to dedicate ourselves to music. I got an unforgettable experience that will definitely come in handy in the future.

Alexander Volostnikov

Guitar player

This fact of 5 days music intensive in the way of practice absolutely changes the perception of music as an instrument for the creation of a product. Our art process was rebuilt to a work system by our tutours - the band SUiT from Germany. In other words it was the best and the most productive week of this winter for me.

Maxim Efremenko

Bass player

It's an unusual international experiment. I met great creative people, learned a lot of new things, and improved my skills in English.

Andrew Mills

Drummer

In the joint concert the band Potato Boom presented their single in the "Bolshoy" mall with SUiT and Blues Bastards.