Label:Dangus – DNG 081 Format: CD digisleeve, Album Country:Lituania Released:2022 Genre:Folk Style:Neofolk
This is the third album from SEN SVAJA, wherein the three female Lituanian folk singers cross new horizons of endurance, worry, radiance and joy. This is an experimental post-folk singing cycle, created in the dark and surreal years of pandemia. The band weaves together polyphonic sutartinės motifs and the poetry of Vladas Braziūnass – and as with the ancient fairytales, it all can get a bit psychedelic, and sometimes even gloomy.
From the liner notes: “We are three women going though our transformations, through birth, through death, through change. We move through joy, sadness, or hardship, and sometimes we skip around happily as if in dance.”
On Eisim sesės, SEN SVAJA face the process of transition, when the previous state has not yet been completed, and the new form is not yet fully birthed. Characteristically, we all encounter fear standing as a guardian at this threshold. But to step into our new selves, we must also persuade ourselves to move past the fear. Come on, sisters! Let’s go!
SEN SVAJA — sen swajjais (old Prussian) — with your own.
