Girių Dvasios - Ratu (2015) EN

Getting back to the small stage hidden in a forest of Mėnuo Juodaragis, the Lithuanian Music festival. This time, the dark night is torn apart by the electronic music of Girių Dvasios. "Electronic" is kind of a broad term - the artist's music combines elements of ambient and dub with Lithuanian folk. Greasy backgrounds and pulsating beats match surprisingly well with looped ethno vocals. The choires, namely Trys Keturiose and Kūlgrinda, sing "sutartinės", the very essence of the Baltic folk - repetetive and trance providing chanting.

Girių Dvasios literally means "spirits of the forest" and it actually fully describes the DJ's work. If witch doctors were to dance around bon fires today getting high with smoke and rhythmical music, they'd do it to music of the Lithuanian artist. Above you there are treetops swinging, around you there are your brothers and sisters swaying with burning eyes and your feet just can't wait and have to dance. What are you going to do?

"Ratu" and its trance costs 6 EUR.

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