BALTIC BALCAN
A phenomenon that has been raising the roofs for 15 years already! A crew of three men and a dog Pitchka has been creating a musical storm made of mix of klezmer music, Gipsy, Lithuanian and electronic melodies of North Africa and delivered performances almost the entire globe. „It is a great honor and pleasure […]
EDM TRIO
It was 2014, when the Mėnuo Juodaragis was held in Skinderiškis Denrological Park in Kėdainiai district. The theme of the festival wasDreams. DJ Ryklys, the last DJ to play, at the end of a long night, unexpectedly ended his set by playing… M. K. Čiurlionis’ (most famousLituanian composer, The Magus of Music and Art) music […]
GIRNŲ GIESMĖS
A cult post-industrial project, MJR’s peer and collaborator since the early days. During its long creative journey, the sound of the Girnų Giesm4s has undergone various sonic changes, but has retained a secret resonance of an archaic, naturalistic worldview. Laurynas Jukonis, the chief miller of the project, has contributed to countless underground bands and projects […]
SALA
There is always a beginning and an end. And in between, there is ISLAND (Sala), that unpredictable kraken of chaos, always teetering on thebrink of extinction, from whose tentacles confusing rainbows of sound fly out… Audrius Šimkūnas have been guiding the MJR since the veryfirst night in Verbiškės. Sala have started this magical trail from primordial […]
WEJDAS
WEJDAS (ancient Prussian word for God) will dive into the waves of midnight ambient sounds, accompanied by the live lyrics of theonce-existing band AKYS, plucked for Juodaragis from the first pages of the Lituanian fenzines of 90s X I learned the art of cursing by the olddark lake, where only the moon shines, where the […]
MERKŪ
All three girls – Adelė, Saulė and Lina – have been singing Lituanian folk songs and sutartines for many years in various groups and contexts,and this spring we started singing together. You will hear them singing the sutartines in the mornings at the athete by the Juoadargis Great Oak. https://www.facebook.com/merku.folk/
SELUONA
A deep sound of Zarasai region traditions, probably the first Zarasai ensemble to appear at MJR 17 years ago. The winners of the mostprestigious Lituaniain folk music Award, the Zarasai Culture Centre group Seluona cherish culture of their native Selonia and lead ethnotours. The ensemble was founded 35 years ago by Rimutė Vitaitė, a traditional […]
Aurelijus SIRGEDAS / SIELA
Aurelijumi Sirgedas, the leader of Lituanian gothic rock band Siela, together with guitarist Aurimas Driukas will play their best and darkest hits – from the first to the last album. For many years Mėnuo Juodaragis and Siela travelled together, since the dark years in Sudeikiai and Kernavė, to the big stages in Zarasai. The songs […]
Vytautas PLIADIS *OBŠRR
Vytautas Pliadis, known as the author of the OBŠRR project, explores the topic of extinction from different perspectives. His music harmoniously combines acoustic and electronic sounds, simulating entropy – from the rusting of metal to the fading of melodies. This soundscape draws the listener in and seems to foreshadow the approaching silence. In previous years […]
SHNARE.SYS
The sound of synthesizers in autumn forests. Echoes of samplers in the meadows. The creak of fallen trees turning into leaves. The rustle of falling leaves. The roots take hold more firmly. Wind-borne spores just coming full circle. Shnare.sys, who has been hypnotyzing with the deepest ambient soundscapes since MJR 2000s, will once again invite […]