In the early 1990s, several boys gathered to perform together the music they loved. This is how the P.I.F band came to life with frontman Dimo Stoyanov. Actor by education, he does not perceive himself as a professional musician to this day. For more than 20 years now Dimo has been the vocalist of the group as well as the author of all of their songs released so far. Other band members include Ivan Velkov (guitar), Atanas Kasabov (drums) and Yuriy Bozhinov (bass guitar, keyboards). So far, the band has released three albums “Patriots in Fashion” in 2001, “Pictures in Frames” in 2002 and “Passion in Fact” which was distributed only online and that was seven years ago. At the end of 2013, the group’s new project called P.I.F. 4 is already on the music market here.

“We recorded many songs over this seven-year period but we had not come up with the idea of releasing them in an album”, says frontman Dimo. “A friend of ours, the owner of a club, offered us to make such a project. At first, I was skeptical but together we invented an interesting idea. We decided to sell the album preliminarily. We announced on the internet that everyone who likes our music could purchase the album before it was released. On the one hand, our fans are helping us to bring it to life and on the other hand – it cannot be downloaded for free. Also, we offered everyone willing to have the album to send us their own photo which we could place on the album cover. On November 23rd we made the official launch of the album. And since the start of December we have started sending albums to everyone who has ordered it via our website. Of course, the CD is to come out with a new cover design, as well.”
The album features 18 tracks, including “I Promise”, “I can’t sleep”, and “Praying Eyes”, the band’s latest single. More than 300 fans of P.I.F. have purchased the special edition with their own photo on the cover of “P.I.F. 4”.

Although the band has not released a new album for such a long time, it never stopped performing at gigs in night clubs and festival venues. What have the musicians prepared for their fans in 2014?
“We have decided to make a nationwide tour in the spring of 2013 and we have already selected 20 cities and towns to include in it. Thus we would like to revisit the recent past when people used to go to concerts in the local cultural community centers. I think such an event will revive these places and their unused stages. Also, our fans will have the chance to see us as we are and we can arrange the stage as we would like to look and sound like. I am very happy that so many people find our music appealing,” Dimo Stoyanov says.
In the spring of 20154, the four musicians from PIF promise to bring another gift to their fans – yet another new album.

The audio file contains the following tracks of PIF:
Dream in the dream
I stay here
Eyes full of prayer
Paradise 

English version: Rossitsa Petcova