The indie four-piece Carnival Youth have unveiled their new single ‘Surf’, from their latest album ‘Propeller’. Alongside the original version Carnival Youth have released its remix – made by Reinis Sējāns of the art pop act Instrumenti.
‘Surf’ is a bright and nifty summer anthem,…
Before her forthcoming shows at The Great Escape festival, Latvian singer-songwriter Alise Joste offers a new single „Mirrors” taken from her current album „Hardships are Ships”.
Alise debuted on Latvian music scene with a self-titled album in 2011. It took almost five years for Alise to complete the sophomore record but it was well worth waiting. Released in October 2015, „Hardships are Ships” received two most prominent awards in Alise’s homeland – Austra Award (goes to the best record of the year, similar to Mercury Prize in Britain) and Latvian Music Award „Golden Microphone” for the best singer-songwriter album.
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’’.
Vocal group FRAMEST releases a new single „Dod, Dieviņi”, music author ir composer and group’s artistic leader Janis Kirsis ( Jānis Ķirsis), words are taken from Latvian folk songs. The song has been written for the new concert programme „Dainu skapis” (The Cabinet of Latvian folk songs), which will be performed on October 2 in Spikeri Concert Hall and on October 9 at Kauguri Culture House.
Concert programme „Dainu skapis” results from musical explorations, where traditional melody is put in such a form, rhythm and harmony which reflects both contemporary academic and popular music. This programme is influenced by traditional Latvian culture but has a fresh, modern sounding, traditional folk tunes being mixed with modern composition techniques – jazz, electronics etc. Concert programme consists of arrangements and original compositions by two members of the vocal group Framest – Janis Kirsis and Roberts Memmens (Jānis Ķirsis and Roberts Memmēns).
Band Laime Pilniga has written a title track for documentary film trilogy „Savējie sapratīs”(„We knew”) and grants it for free.
laimepilniga.bigcartel.com is a place where everybody can support latvian rock quartet „Laime Pilniga” (The LP) and get its T-shirts and CD digipacks.
The Great Escape is excited to announce that they have teamed up with Music Export Latvia and The Lithuanian Music Business Association as their lead international partners for 2016, bringing to Brighton the very best of up and coming Baltic talent.
Highlights of the amazing international line-up of artists will be Lithuania’s Without Letters, who bring together tenacious techno beats and psychedelic twists in an eclectic mix of surreal sound, along with the cabaret-tinged acoustic tones of Alina Orlova. Joining them will be Latvia’s finest; the feel-good indie awesomeness that is Carnival Youth and the weird and wonderful avant-pop duo Howling Owl.