{"id":3972,"date":"2025-11-23T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/2025\/11\/23\/contemporary-livonian-poetry-and-original-music-project-kuolm-rando-three-shores-releases-second-single-vaga-varded-kaubed-the-gate-of-silence-opens\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:49:56","slug":"contemporary-livonian-poetry-and-original-music-project-kuolm-rando-three-shores-releases-second-single-vaga-varded-kaubed-the-gate-of-silence-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiclatvia.lv\/en\/contemporary-livonian-poetry-and-original-music-project-kuolm-rando-three-shores-releases-second-single-vaga-varded-kaubed-the-gate-of-silence-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Livonian poetry and original music project ‘Kuolm rand\u00f5\/Three Shores’ releases second single ‘Vaga V\u00e4rded \u0136\u00e4ubed\/The Gate of Silence Opens’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘\u201cVaga V\u00e4rded \u0136\u00e4ubed\/The Gate of Silence Opens\u201d is generally about the death of language and the rebirth of new life in all its ways. It’s also about misunderstanding and comprehension. <\/strong>And definitely it speaks about Love which is the final reality after every fire and apocalypse. I think it could be a poem of the Easter and the Midsummer Night at the same time,’ <\/strong>contemplates Kempju Karlis, the author of Livonian poetry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The artists of the project ‘Kuolm rand\u00f5\/Three Shores’, inspired by the contemporary Livonian poetry, have enclothed Livonian language in nowadays original music. It is chamber music with
\nlayers of different sound nuances and moods, bordering between the discovery of new musical horizons and following traditional canons. The musicians are united by their interest in the
\nshades of academic, jazz and world music.<\/p>\n

Livonian is a language of indigenous peoples of Latvia, and it is listed in the UNESCO Atlas of the World\u2019s Languages in Danger as one of the most critically endangered languages in the
\nworld. This year starts the Decade of the World\u2019s Indigenous People (2022\u20132032) with the aim to draw global attention on the critical situation of many indigenous languages and to mobilize
\nstakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion. Kempju Karlis is the only poet in the world who writes poetry in the lost and mysterious Vidzeme dialect, which is
\nalso called the Salaca Livonian language, using his own orthography. A song is an opportunity to immerse oneself in the language, get to know its sound, use it, preserve it and carry it to a
\nwider audience.<\/p>\n

Double bass player Stanislavs Judins, the author of lyrics, says about the single: ‘Language, poetry and people impact my thoughts and ideas. In recent years, I have focused on free
\nimprovisation, contemporary music, but only when I met musicians in this project, I wanted to compose a simple melody in the senses of poetry.’<\/p>\n