Rihards Fedotovs is presenting his music video and recording studio

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. 

Audience Killers share video for ‘Circus In The Sky’.

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).

Italy greeted the group DAGAMBA with an ovation.

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 releases a new single “Crashing Down” in collaboration with Edvards Grieze. Watch the video!

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.

Indie rockers Carnival Youth wrap up European tour.

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. 

Latvian vocal group FRAMEST performs in Cannes Film Festival’s event.

Last weekend the vocal group FRAMEST travelled to the prestigious and world famous Cannes Film Festival in France to perform at the Ukrainian official delegation’s event.

Ukrainian official event took place in an exclusive club on the seashore with a beautiful view of the French Riviera. The event was attended by several hundred leading global film industry producers, actors and directors. “There was a great and sincere ovation while we were singing the popular Ukrainian folk song Pidmanula Pidvel’ in a capella arrangement”, said the group’s artistic director and composer Janis Kirsis while commenting on the unforgettable experience. FRAMEST was the only musical group performing at this event thus receiving undivided attention and responsiveness from the audience.

It is known that within the Cannes Film Festival, various musical performances take place and are performed by world famous musicians. For example, this year Justin Timberlake and actress Anna Kendrick delighted the audience with an acoustic performance.

Since the very beginning, the group has included its founder and active composer Jānis Ķirsis (baritone), as well as Mikus Abaroniņš (tenor). Beāte Zviedre (soprano) joined the group in 2010, Rūta Dūduma (alto) and Roberts Memmēns (bass) – in 2013. At the moment the group is arranging new and uplifting compositions for their show which will be held this autumn in Riga.

Howling Owl to represent Latvia at the Liverpool Sound City.

This weekend, from 27th to 29th of May Liverpool will host its annual music festival and international music & digital business conference Liverpool Sound City where Latvia will be represented by the perspective avant-pop band Howling Owl.

Howling Owl is a Latvian-Serbian duo that consists of Latvian singer and keyboardist Evija Vebere and Serbian drummer and keyboardist Lav Kovac. The band will perform twice at the Liverpool Sound City and on Saturday they’ll have a headline show at the legendary The Cavern Club where The Beatles started their career. Although Howling Owl was formed just a year ago, it already has established itself as one of the most unique and promising new acts in Europe that proved it once again last weekend during The Great Escape festival in Brighton. 

Latvia was also represented there by the EBBA Award winners Carnival Youth, singer-songwriter Alise Joste and Music Export Latvia. The latter was nominated as the Best Export Office in the Yearly Music Convention Awards for the second time in three years. YMCAs also honored Carnival Youth manager and the CEO of music management company Every Little Thing Guna Zucika by naming her one of the candidates for the Convention Junkie award.

Latvian indie pop band “Franco Franco” unveils the video for the song “By the Lake” from the upcoming album.

 Latvian indie pop band “Franco Franco” unveils the video for the song “By the Lake” from the album which is set to be released in autumn.

The song “By the Lake” marks the band’s return to music after a short break taken in 2013. This summer it will be possible to hear “Franco Franco” in events such as “Fono Cēsis”, “Playground Festival” and “Piens Fest”, and the band has promised to release their new album in autumn.

“The song reminds us to listen to our instincts and not be afraid to take decisive steps. It symbolizes light and ease, which we find within ourselves and hope to pass on to the listeners,” the band members explain.

This feeling has been captured by the director Linda Jakubone; production of the music video “By the Lake” is her debut in this field: “The story is about choices we have made and could have made, but did not. It is a chance to live the possibilities and feel how it would be if we could turn back time and return to the beginning.”

The producer of “By the Lake” and the upcoming album is Reinis Sējāns (Instrumenti), and the recordings have been made in “TRU Music Studio”, Riga.

The song is already available on the band’s Soundcloud and Bandcamp platforms, and soon it will also appear on the most popular streaming services.

Since the band’s establishment in 2010 “Franco Franco” has released a mini album “Color Me” in 2013, also making a video for the song “Frank Killed Lee”.