Saulius Petreikis & Domas Strupinskas - Lietava - 1CD

The beautiful album is available in a limited run of CDs, with the design inspired by minimalism.

"The world changes; so should folk. It has to be a living thing. Because we live now!” - Domas Strupinskas

Lietava is a celebration of sixteen rare traditional Lithuanian folk instruments by the highly respected Lithuanian musicians Saulius Petreikis and Domas Strupinskas. These are instruments that once had pivotal roles for the people of historic Lithuania, yet many are now all but forgotten; some have never been professionally recorded before.

Through their approach to the production and performance of the album, Domas and Saulius have created an aesthetic manifesto about the relationship between tradition and renewal. Produced at the Nida Art Colony in Lithuania and inspired by minimalism and documentary sound recordings, it serves to challenge folk orthodoxy; an approach for which the artists have coined the term ‘shifting folk’.

This makes for an album that is at once reverent and beautiful but equally striking, minimalist and radical.

The artwork for Lietava was conceived and produced by Lithuanian artist Lauryna Narkevičiūtė, drawing on the concept of shifting folk and historic Lithuanian cultural artefacts and minimalism.