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Lithuanian producer GeraiGerai has just released a new remix of Latvian singer’s Aminata single Fighter.

Thanks to the ReZarin and Matthew Nagle remixes of the track “Heartbeat” by Justs, that have been released by MicRec and are often included in the sets of DJs from the United Kingdom, the track has made it into the official Upfront Club Chart Top 40. Currently the track is a newcomer and is on the 14th place. We will continue to analyse the developments during next week. The remix by Rūdolfs Zariņš (ReZarin) has been played more than 250 000 on his SoundCloud profile already!

All 11 remixes of the track released by MicRec so far are available on Doremi.lv, iTunes, Spotify and Apple Music. 

This song was included in band’s latest album Space Synesthia that was released in late 2015 and features vocals from Anita Intaite.

Author notes that the video for Winters End was specially designed to be released in late June as it is devoted to Midsummer’s festival. It was created by the director Jānis Vīksne, 7 Synths founder Kaspars Tobis, Aero Vision’s Agris Tabaks and Eva Kronberga from contemporary dance studio Ārā.

7 Synths is an electronic, synth pop and ambient music project created by Kaspars Tobis, the keyboard player of the popular Latvian rock band Dzelzs Vilks. Often called the Latvian Jean Michel Jarre, Tobis has so far released 3 albums produced mainly on analogue synthesizers.

Latvian singer Evija and Serbian “beast on drums” Lav recorded their new single in Serbia, right after performing in the prestigious “The Great Escape” and “Liverpool Sound City” music showcases.

The notorious duet will start their summer concert series in “Positivus” festival on the “I Love You” stage on 16th of July at 18:45. Followed by the release concert of their new single “Tic Tac” in concert venue “Autentika”, Bruņinieku 2, Rīga, on 18th of July, where they will share the night with the Polish duet “Coal”. This event is made special with the premier of several new songs.

You can hear more of the duet in festivals like ’’Summer sound’’, “Galapagai”, “Lab Daba”, “Piena Svētki” and “Fontaine Festival’’. 

Latvian alternative rock four-piece band Neon Saturdays has released their new single titled In My Eyes. The song came to be after a long and close collaboration with the upcoming british producer Dan Weller.

While talking about the band’s most recent accomplishment singer Andris Evelis admits that working tohether with the british professional was a worthy challenge for the band. „We started working on this song last Summer. A lot of time and resources went into perfecting the sound because we felt that this record should convey maturity – a new level we’ve achieved as a band. The results satisfied us completely and we really did learn a lot,” says Evelis. While recording the band also received a huge support from their hometown – the municipality of Sigulda.

Before getting into studio in the Summer of 2015 Neon Saturdays had a chance to play a couple of shows at The Great Escape – leading festival for new music in UK. The band also played most of the big festivals at home in Latvia and has already accepted the support slot for James (UK). The british rockers will hit the stage of Sunset Festival at Sigulda on July 6th.

Rihards Fedotovs is presenting his music video and recording studio. Musician and music producer Rick Feds aka Richards Fedotovs is sharing the music video of his song “Forever”, the first witness of “Rick Feds Society” upcoming album. He is also inviting folks to discover his new recording studio “Creative Society Studios”.

The idea of “Rick Feds Society” was polished during the “Creative Music Workshops” (“Riharda Fedotova radošās darbnīcas”) which during the time from 2013 till 2015 were held in music clubs in Riga, improvisational music sessions with the top latvian soloists and instrumentalists.

However, “Rick Feds Society” is an electronic music synthesis which will feature soloists as: Aigars Gravers, Ralfs Eilands, Kristine Praulina, as well as Taphy Spencer (USA), Rachel Claudio (FRA). “Forever” is the first single and first music video of the upcoming album.

The song is a collaboration with the American singer Taphy Spencer and the music video has been made by Janis Abele (director), Aleksandr Grebnev (main camera) and Martins Dabolins (visual effects). The video has been shot in four different cities: Philadelphia, New York, Riga and Saldus (a little town in Latvia where Richards was born).

Alongside the video Rick Feds is also presenting his newly done recording studio in the very centre of Riga, “Creative Music Studios” . The large environment of the studio makes it possible to capture very different characters of music starting from song production to larger ensemble recordings. Inside of the studio is an impressive collection of Richards analogue synthesisers, drums and various oriental instruments.

If “Rick Feds Society” involves a larger group of musicians and soloists, “Rick Feds” stands for Rihards solo performance beats on the AbletonPUSH controller and is starting to get international recognition. Last weeks performance at the Baltic Art Forum in London has left a promising resonance and future performance possibilities. Furthermore, his summer awaits a few mini tours in Latvia, Germany, Sweden and The United States. 

It’s been 2 years since Riga, Latvia based Audience Killers released their preceding work ‘Two Bare Feet’. Today, the hugely exciting trio return, with the news of their first full-length album ‘Floating Islands‘, and first single ‘Circus In The Sky‘.

New single ‘Circus In The Sky‘ is equal parts perceptible and dreamy. Audience Killers manage to fully maintain their quaint electronic sound, with ethereal group vocals and bright piano running throughout.  

‘Circus In The Sky’ gives a strong indication of the band’s potential, yet not giving too many clues away as to what the rest of the forthcoming album will sound like. May 20th will see the release of the full album ‘Floating Islands’ with lots more to come before that.

Audience Killers are: Normunds Petrovs (vocals, keyboards, guitar), Arletta Supe (keyboards, backing vocals) and Edgars Oplucans (drums).

DAGAMA gave 6 concerts at the Festival Artisti in Piazza, Pennabilli that has been held already for 20 years. The musicians were amused by the genuine public’s ovation and enthusiasm, received after each concert. Italy is the cradle of classical music, that’s why DAGAMBA concerts were most willingly attended, as the guys play classical music in an unusual and modern manner. Italian public has come across such a musical performance for the first time. The Festival draws about 40 000 visitors every year. The special attention gained the group’s variation on the Italian composer A.Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”, which will be possible to hear in Latvia during the autumn concert tour “Vivaldi Rocks”. As the result of successful performances band is already invited to participate in most popular show “Italia’s Got Talent”.

“Four Seasons” is the most famous Vivaldi’s piece of work he had composed ever. We perform it in the manner it never sounded before. This will be challenging, as the original “Four Seasons” were composed for the violin, – tells Valters Puce, who has enjoyed Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” since early years.

From 31 May the concert tour tickets are available for purchase. At the final concert of the tour, held at the venue “Palladium” in Riga, the first 300 tickets are available for purchase only for 10 EUR. The tickets are distributed by “Biļešu paradīze” ticket service network.

It is planned that this year the group will give seven concerts at the best Latvian concert venues – Dzintari concert venue, in Jurmala, on 2 September; at the concert venue “Gors”, in Rezekne, on 18 September; at the Vidzeme concert venue, in Cesis, on 1 October; at the concert venue “Jūras vārti”, in Ventspils, on 15 October; at the Jelgava Cultural Centre, on 28 October; at the concert venue “Lielais Dzintars”, in Liepaja, on 5 November; and at the concert venue “Palladium”, in Riga, on 12 November.

Rodion Gordin has been released his music by such prestigious European dance music publishing companies as “Kingdom Kome Cuts” and “Kontor Records”.  He has successfully collaborated with duo “Dvīnes” and American singer Dustin Paul. He has remixed and produced a number of local dance music hits, which have been played by many European radio stations and also have entered the EHR Top 40.

Singer Edvards Grieze could just be seen in the LTV project “SUPERNOVA”, where he performed a song called “New Day”. He has graduated from Ventspils Secondary Music School where studied singing and piano. He has collaborated with such producers as Rassell and DJ Makree.

The video was filmed a few weeks ago at Carnikava seaside. The music video is starring dancer Rūdolfs Patriks Gediņš. Filmed and assembled by Ritvars Bluka. The second operator – Rihards Kalaida. Liga Banga was in charge of style, and Laura Pudovska took care of make-up.

Latvian indie rock band Carnival Youth have recently returned from a month long tour in Europe, promoting their second album Propeller. 

During the month long tour they performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, England, Poland and Hungary. Carnival Youth also performed as a warm-up act for Andrew Bird in Brussels – in what was their first show in Belgium.

“It seems almost unbelievable that we are so lucky to have this amazing opportunity to travel, see different cultures, and play our music in many countries, cities and venues,“ says Carnival Youth. 

This summer Carnival Youth will perform in France (Europavox festival), Estonia (Kaparock festival), Lithuania (Karklė Live Music Beach), Austria (Szene Open Air), Poland (Different Sounds Art’n’Music Festival) and Latvia where the band will play at the Positivus Festival, Holi Festival of Colours, Summersound Festival and elsewhere. 

In November 2016 Carnival Youth will set off for the second part of Propeller tour, playing the best venues in Latvia, their home country.