German synth-pop band Camouflage performs at Palladium Rīga concert hall
German synth-pop band Camouflage played at the Palladium Rīga concert hall in Riga on the evening of Friday, 16 October. The show featured the group's best-known songs from a career spanning several decades.
The German synth-pop band Camouflage performed at the Palladium Rīga concert hall in Riga on the evening of Friday, 16 October. Synth-pop is a genre of electronic pop music built around synthesizer sounds. The group returned to Latvia with a programme of its best-known songs, inviting the audience on a musical journey through a career that spans several decades.
The band and its hits
The group is often compared with leading names of the genre such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, a-ha and OMD. Camouflage gained international recognition with songs such as "The Great Commandment" and "Love Is a Shield", which have become synth-pop classics. Its repertoire also includes "Strangers' Thoughts", "Heaven (I Want You)", "Me and You" and "I Can't Feel You".
Albums
Among the band's most significant records are "Voices & Images", released in 1988, "Methods of Silence" from 1989, and "Sensor", recorded in 2003.
In recent years the group's music has also attracted new listeners. Reissues of its albums and the best-of compilation "Rewind to the Future and Goodbye" have performed well in the German album charts.
Camouflage concerts include songs from different stages of the band's career, giving audiences a chance to reconnect with music that forms an important part of the synth-pop legacy of the 1980s and 1990s.
