{"id":2417,"date":"2018-05-18T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauska.lv\/blog\/first-album-of-the-world-music-group-lata-donga\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:51:07","slug":"first-album-of-the-world-music-group-lata-donga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/blog\/first-album-of-the-world-music-group-lata-donga\/","title":{"rendered":"First album of the World Music Group &#8220;Lata Donga&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1636\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lauska.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Group_LataDonga.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lauska.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Group_LataDonga.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lauska.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Group_LataDonga.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foto: Sandra Jascherica<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday May 24th at 8 p.m. in Valmiermui\u017eas alus v\u0113stniec\u012bba in Riga (A.Bri\u0101na iela 9a) the Latvian World Music Group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1255264837943414\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lata Donga will present its first album &#8220;Vari\u0101cijas&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is part of the churning concerts in preparation of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/150020955696051\/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A1%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%2C%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22permalink%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22surface%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D&amp;source=1&amp;action_history=%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22page_upcoming_events_card%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%2C%7B%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D&amp;has_source=1\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/event.php?id=150020955696051&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22source%22%3A1%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%2C%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22permalink%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22surface%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A1255264837943414%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">Ethno Festival \u201eSviests 2018\u201d<\/a>, in Valmiermui\u017ea.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of the group is a family of folkmusicians in the third generation\u00a0 \u2013 A\u012bda Ranc\u0101ne, Asnate Ranc\u0101ne, Aur\u0113lija Ranc\u0101ne and Andris Kapusts. The heartfelt understanding\u00a0 of the traditional musical heritage and long-time practice in the folklore movement in combination with studies of ethnomusicology, visual arts and contemporary dance create the musical basis of Lata Donga.<\/p>\n<p>The special sound of Lata Donga is created by the emotional, peculiar and inspiring voices in combination with a very creative and contemporary instrumental arrangement. The ancient and the contemporary, the Latvian and the global, the female and the sacral create a special integrity and is the main source of inspiration of the group.\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe melodies recorded on this album represent various styles and also various geographic regions. Correspondingly, the techniques of variation in the songs differ as well. Lata Donga\u2019s album Variations justifies its name not only by demonstrating variation in folk melodies; associatively, it also incorporates variations (variants) in order to show that a modern approach may be taken with these melodies and variation techniques, thereby connecting them in different ways through the use of style elements from the wider world of music.\u201d (M.Boiko)<\/p>\n<p>The album is released with the support of the State Culture Capital Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"LATA DONGA - Cel v\u0101rti\u0146us\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uWlhBlAg-o0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday May 24th at 8 p.m. in Valmiermui\u017eas alus v\u0113stniec\u012bba in Riga (A.Bri\u0101na iela 9a) the Latvian World Music Group\u00a0Lata Donga will present its first album &#8220;Vari\u0101cijas&#8221;. The concert is part of the churning concerts in preparation of the\u00a0Ethno Festival \u201eSviests 2018\u201d, in Valmiermui\u017ea. The heart of the group is a family of folkmusicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lauska.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/vacins-Lata-Donga.jpg?fit=528%2C480&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauska.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}