{"id":3613,"date":"2025-11-23T21:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/2025\/11\/23\/bandmaster-release-a-new-song-after-3-year-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:47:29","slug":"bandmaster-release-a-new-song-after-3-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/bandmaster-release-a-new-song-after-3-year-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBandmaster\u201d release a new song after 3 year hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead singer Zelma Jegere: \u201cThis song is about an internal dualism and never ending struggle of good and bad choices in life and which version of yourself you are going to be today. The title \u201cI Might Get High Tonight\u201d might give you a hint which choices it describes more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bandmaster is an electronic trio from Latvia whose music incorporates danceable beats, overdriven analog synths and vocal hooks. The band features one of the country&#8217;s leading DJs\/producers (Rudd), producer Andis Ansons and a notorious battle rapper VI\u0145A (\u201cshe\u201d in Latvian, real name Zelma Jegere). Because of her furious style Latvian public radio received 8000 EUR fine for airing her rap battles. But here she sings. Bandmaster have opened for The xx and Phantogram, playlisted on KCRW and received the \u201cBest electronic \/ dance music record 2017 in Latvia\u201d award for Stay Awake EP. Music video for \u201cGet Live\u201d featuring hip hop legend Akil the MC from Jurassic 5 received \u201cBest Music &amp; Dance Video\u201d at Bestias Danzantes Festival de Cine de Danza in Chile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3o3ofPdRASH6aeuEREIO8l?si=JK482K2XQIaZV1qiB_eFFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead singer Zelma Jegere: \u201cThis song is about an internal dualism and never ending struggle of good and bad choices in life and which version of yourself you are going to be today. The title \u201cI Might Get High Tonight\u201d might give you a hint which choices it describes more.\u201d Bandmaster is an electronic trio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cBandmaster\u201d release a new song after 3 year hiatus - ML<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/bandmaster-release-a-new-song-after-3-year-hiatus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cBandmaster\u201d release a new song after 3 year hiatus - ML\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lead singer Zelma Jegere: \u201cThis song is about an internal dualism and never ending struggle of good and bad choices in life and which version of yourself you are going to be today. 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