{"id":3464,"date":"2025-11-23T21:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/2025\/11\/23\/twenty-new-demos-recorded-at-rigalive-songwriting-session-4\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:10:27","slug":"twenty-new-demos-recorded-at-rigalive-songwriting-session-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/twenty-new-demos-recorded-at-rigalive-songwriting-session-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty new demos recorded at \u201cRIGaLIVE\u201d songwriting session #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the fourth songwriting session “RIGaLIVE” took place over three days at three recording studios in Riga, during which twenty new song demos were created.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday and Thursday, more than thirty musicians – producers, songwriters and performers, including K\u0101rlis Auz\u0101ns, M\u0101ra Upmane-Hol\u0161teine (“Astro’n’out”), Aivo Oskis, R\u016bdolfs Macats, Erv\u012bns Rami\u0146\u0161 ( \u201cLaime Piln\u012bga\u201d) and Kattie, the winner of the show \u201cX-Factor 2018\u201d<\/p>\n

Kattie comments on her experience at \u201cRIGaLIVE: \u201cWhat happened to me at Riga live exceeded all my expectations!\u00a0 I participated for the first time.\u00a0 And now I know for sure that I want more!\u00a0 I have not seen so many professionals in one place yet!\u00a0 Very pleased with the result, pleased with the workflow, pleased with new acquaintances!\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of each day, eight-hour demo recordings were discussed by a panel of experts, consisting of Toomas Olljum (Made In Baltics, Sony Music, Ewert And Two Dragons), Patric Sarin (Warner Music Finland), Artis Dvarionas (Radio SWH) and Martti Vuorinen (Universal Music Finland & Baltics).<\/p>\n

On the first day of \u201cRIGaLIVE\u201d there was an open discussion about \u201cMusic usage habits in Latvia\u201d, based on the research carried out by \u201cLatvian Performers and Producers Association\u201d (\u201cLaIPA\u201d) and \u201cKantar TNS\u201d. Liena Gr\u012bna, executive director of LaIPA, journalist J\u0101nis \u017dilde, radio dj Artis Dvarionas, musicians Samanta T\u012bna and ansis, as well as L\u012bva P\u0113tersone-K\u013cavi\u0146a, manager of the band Instrumenti, participated in the discussion. Following this discussion, the participants of RIGaLIVE had the opportunity to take part in a songwriting workshop led by Meldra G\u016b\u017ea, a lecturer at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

The songwriting camp \u201cRIGaLIVE\u201d takes place with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, AKKA\/LAA, LaIPA, Latvijas Balzams and RedBull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, the fourth songwriting session “RIGaLIVE” took place over three days at three recording studios in Riga, during which twenty new song demos were created. 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