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    Lowlands – debut album of Saulius Petreikis, which distinctively combines elements of pop, classical, folklore, jazz and world music. Album consists of 10 compositions: 8 instrumental pieces and 2 songs sung in English and Samogitian languages. Saulius’ music creates a warm and cozy atmosphere and will fit for the wide variety of listeners. Many songs in the album has a characteristic Celtic sound, going beautifully together with Lithuanian traditional sounds and enriched in timbres of exotic instruments. Symbolic title of the album could suggest many meanings to the listener. One of them – Samogitia – ethnographic region in Western Lithuania, where Saulius himself comes from. In a broader sense – lowlands, plains and vales where the roots of each one of us comes from. That’s the sacred place where the mythical stem of World Tree rises from. Like the singing of birds on its branches, voices of various instruments from different countries are heard mingling gracefully together. They create an original harmony of timbres and styles, revealing lucid and bright entirety of the sound to the listener.
    Album starts with panpipes playing Lithuanian traditional sutartinė, which later mingles with trumpet and trombone syncopes and evolves to a dreamy melody of reed-pipe (1); piece is titled as the whole album – “Lowlands”. Second composition – “Eyes“ pulses in the rhythm of Irish jig and blows a gust of unconstrained playfulness (2). Lyric contrast is created by the wistful duduk melody in the background of the strings; this piece is dedicated to Caucasus (3). One of the brightest song in the album – instrumental piece “Beautiful Girl”, revealing timbral expression possibilities of bansuri, Indian bamboo flute (4). Anxious, starting with an impetuous unison, the fifth piece “Classical” later emerges to a polyphony of trumpet, duduk and guitar (5), succeeded by a wide and bright melody of the piece called “Hornpipe” (6). Lyric centre of the album – ballad “Werewolf” is a story of the tragic love between a werewolf and a girl (7). “Ney” – vivid and rhythmical composition played with a Persian long flute – ney, has characteristic Iranian color and leads us to a kingdom of tales from Arabian Nights (8). Irish flute, guitar and piano sounds blend together in the ninth piece “Friendship” and create a warm and cozy impression (9). The closing track of the album is a Lithuanian one, sung by Saulius and his brother Donatas in their home dialect – Samogitian.

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Written by Petreikis - arr. Petreikis, Taylor & Dowling
Saulius Petreikis - Persian ney - trumpet - zurna - bansuri - vocals - duduk – kanklės - French horn
Hamidreza Rahbaralam – Persian vocal
Mohammad Rasouli - Persian ney
Rytis Girskas – sitar
Al Price - moothie
Rick Taylor - marimbas - trombone - organ - percussion
Tadas Dešukas - violin
Nerijus Bakula - accordion
Graham Rodger - electric guitar
Huey Dowling - fretless bass
Derek Urquhart - drums
Anatolij Lomonosov - tampura

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from LOWLANDS, released October 14, 2014

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Saulius Petreikis Vilnius, Lithuania

Saulius Petreikis is an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, composer and performer. Playing more than 50 different wind instruments that he gathered from all over the world he is also regarded as the only professional musician able to play a wide range of ancient Lithuanian/Baltic wind instruments. ... more

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