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Indie rock band “Pyro Trees” reveals the first single „Small Talk” from their upcoming debut LP which will be released in November of this year.

In the summer of 2015, after playing in such festivals as Laba Daba, Playground in Latvia and Devilstone in Lithuania, the band started to work on their debut album.The song „Small Talk” is the first single that is published for a wider audience, and also the first song to be published after their lead singer and guitarist Rūdolfs left the band and went to study abroad.

Right after the release of the first single “Pyro Trees” are going to the capital of Poland – Warsaw, where they are going to represent Latvia in the music conference Liveurope. The band’s performance will be on 11th of September on the stage of Stodola – one of the most popular music clubs in Warsaw, together with 28 other new European bands.

And on the 25th of September “Pyro Trees” are playing in Hamburg, Germany – in one of the biggest conferences of the European music industry – Reeperbahn, which will be held this year for the 10th time. So far Latvia in Reeperbahn has been represented by bands such as “Carnival Youth”, “Triana Park”, “The Sound Poets” and “Audience Killers”.

Heavy metal band “Relicseed” (USA/LV) has announced the first bunch of the “Serial Surgery Tour” dates across America and Europe supporting their latest studio release “Slaughterhouse” (“Microphone Records”).

The band has published the first 2 of the entire 6 tour chapters which will begin on April 20 in Muncie, IN and wrap up by the end of November in Europe. All together it’s 13 US dates including Philadelphia, Huston, Indianapolis as well as Queens and 9 European dates including Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary.

“Relicseed” will tour together with various bands including “Losing September” (U.S.), “BLAMING HOLLYWOOD” (U.S.), “Darker Half” (AU) and others.

“Relicseed`s” journey begun back in 2004 when four Latvian musicians started experimenting with different playing and singing styles. The debut album “60 minutes of a dream” was released only in 2010 (Relicseed). The album was the start of defining the band`s character which is brightly represented in their second studio release “Slaughterhouse”. Constantly remaining the only original member Edgars Rakovskis (guitars, vocals) has led “Relicseed” across his native Latvia`s borders entering various alternative music markets around the world as well as created the new international form of musicianship together with the great Nathan J.C. Mercado (drums).

Edgars: “We`re extremely happy to finally get on the road again and do something we love together with likeminded musicians! Excited and willing to see everybody in the pit!”

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.  

The new video of Latvian music „When The Sun Is Down” has been published. It was presented to a wider audience on July 8th, 2015 at the European Union House in Riga, Latvia. 

The video was released by a towering creative team from Kurland. Young musicians and producers acknowledged their distinction and professionalism by carrying out black-and-white video “It feels like” at the very beginning of this year. The trio „Voice of Instruments”, video artist Jānis Jostmanis and his firm „Mithra Films” are the members of this forceful union.

The story was filmed in Ventspils region and it includes a combination of pristine and contemporary mood in music as well as a message full of cryptic and epic, mystic and heavenly landscape scenes.

“The core idea of the song – Gold – is expressed though artistic playfulness on the theme of sunlight. It is also communicated in the carefree joyousness of children playing football, and the brush strokes of gold paint on a window, the central symbol of the video,” says Linda Selava Prindule, singer and songwriter.

The video was filmed in the green countryside of Latvia, capturing the beauty of Latvian nature in the long days of summer. It was directed by Linda Olte.

Jorspeis is a band located in Riga, Latvia, led by the singer – songwriters, Linda and Maris Prinduli.

The band was founded in 2007 in Riga, Latvia (EU), when Linda and Maris Prinduli (singers, songwriters and producers) recorded their first single ‘Debesis ir tuvu klāt’ (Heaven’s Glow is Near at Hand)’. The song was successful in the Latvian radio charts and in 2010 the band released their first album ‘Ābele baltā’, followed by ‘Dzīvības upē’ and the Christmas album ‘Arvien tuvāk’.

Lauris Reiniks has jus released the official music video for his Baltic summer song “Morning in Dandelion Fluff” (LV-“Rīts pieneņpūkās”, LT-“Rytas pienės pūke”, EE-“Hommik võilille-ehmetes”). The video is available in Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian and a special acoustic version in English.

It is a romantic story about a chemistry between two people. When that chemistry is there, all stereotypes and ideas of so called “standards” just collapse – in terms of physical appearance and financial status. Nothing can stand against these feelings. It is a story about insecurity and fears that always stand by when something “too” beautiful and “incredibly” good happens to us.

The lead role in the video is played by Lauris’s colleague- Uku Suviste, the well known Estonian singer. The lead female role is carried out by Katrina Lulle, Latvian girl who works as a PR specialist but was recognised as the best for this role in a national casting. The video shoot took place in Latvia and lasted 3 days in Mežaparks (Riga), Carnikava and Mārupe.

Uku Suviste: “It doesn’t happen very often that one singer asks another singer to participate in his or her music videos as an actor therefore it was a very worthwhile experience. I very much appreciated the pleasant opportunity to work with Lauris and Katrina as well as with the whole crew. I admire Lauris’s way of cooperating with singers and actors from other neighbour countries, its something every performer should learn from. I was very happy to help and would do so again in a flash!”

“I wanna thank Uku for saying yes to my extraordinary and special offer. He was exactly the type we were looking for and did everything great! Also thanks to Katrina for being brave enough to jump into this world of show business, director Aija, camera man Ivo and everyone else! I am proud and happy to work with all these talented people. I hope my listeners will like this video and I’m already happy that this song has been doing really well in radio charts. Now everyone will understand what this song is about! Pictures speak better than words.”, says Lauris.

Video dierector: Aija Strazdiņa (JUMP Studio), Camera: Ivo Skanstiņš (Film Studio Rafa), producer: Lauris Reiniks. Publishing: “Mikrofona Ieraksti”. Songs are available for download on doremi.lv , Amazon un iTunes.

Currently, the only Latvian live looping music duo “Karmafree” has released new music video and single “Validate Me.” .

“The song” Validate Me “is about excessive obedience to authority and influential people, as well as the giving them permission to examine and define our lives “on the song’s message comment singer Mara Lisenko.

Music video are made by Pavel Trebukhin and it is the duo’s vision for creative people existentialism.

“Artists and musicians usually don’t speak about that – how they experience numerous rejections, what consequences they can have, and how they find the strength to stand up in order to continue to create, “comment the idea of the video bassist Dmitry Lisenko.