This year, the festival presents a special music program
Special guests of RE RE RIGA! – BaBa ZuLa from Turkey
BaBa ZuLa is an authentic symbiosis of eastern music and psychedelic aesthetics. Their concerts – often compared to rituals of shamanism – are usually accompanied by belly dancing, lush costuming, poetry, theatre and visual art. Merging aesthetics of traditional music with contemporary sonic elements, BaBa ZuLa call their music “Istanbul psychedelia”.
Program of the music stage
Opening concert on Wednesday, August, the 6th, at 19:30, will take place at the Large hall of the Riga Congress Centre with a performance by world music project TĀLAMANA with their concert show ‘Songs Along the Amber Road’, created specifically as a “Riga – European Capital of Culture 2014” event. TĀLAMANA is comprised of outstanding musicians from the USA, Latvia, Poland, Ireland and Finland.
About the project: TĀLAMANA is comprised of Latvian musician Laila Saliņa (voice, guitar, lute), who currently resides in the USA, Timo Väänänen (Finland; kantele) and Jim Matus (Poland/USA; Greek lute, guitar). However, the most well-known member of the project is Shane Shanahan (Ireland/USA; percussion), who is also a member of the Silk Road Ensemble, led by famous cello player Yo-Yo Ma.
On Friday, August, the 8th, at 18:00, the festival’s music stage at the culture chalet “Esplanāde 2014” will be warmed up by the energetic duo KAKTIŅŠ UN STŪRĪTIS (Mārtiņš Kuzmins and Mārtiņš Jansons) from Liepaja. Their music can be described as a sonic search for identity on the background of industrial, social and historical soundtracks.
This musical Friday evening will be closed by a performance of Edgars Šubrovskis’ new band MANTA at 20:00.
About the musicians: MANTA is comprised of Edgars Šubrovskis, key figure from the Latvian musical underground (Kartāga, Hospitāļu Iela, Gaujarts, Zigomārs un Bronikūrs), Edgars Mākens, local alternative pop activist and leader of the band Gaujarts, Oskars Upenieks , an enthusiast of electronic music, known for his solo project EMD, as well as Raitis Viļumovs, a graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music with experience in punk rock (Neprodukts, NRG+).
On Saturday, August, the 9th, at 20:00 in the culture chalet ‘Esplanāde 2014’ the multidisciplinary local artist’s MIONIA performance will introduce BaBa ZuLa, the exotic guests from Turkey.
About the artist – in 2010, MIONIA became famous as “the iPhone girl”, since her first compositions were conceived and performed with the aid of NanoStudio, a smartphone application. Her piece Sad Story has been chosen as the theme song for the feature film The Film, directed by Ivo Briedis. MIONIA is currently working on her debut album.
On Saturday, August, the 9th, at 22:00, the music program of the festival will be concluded with a performance by BaBa ZuLa in the culture chalet ‘Esplanāde 2014’.
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