In 2017 a boom happened in Latvian and Baltic jazz history with the coming of Jersika Records, an independent jazz and improvised music record label. Since then, the Riga-based label has been ...

Latvian musician Elizabete Balčus has been compared to St Vincent, Bjork, and Efterklang among a number of reverential artists, something she finds flattering yet also takes in her stride. Based in ...

Saucējas are tremendously powerful. Experiencing them at Riga Music Week’s outdoor Folk Stage in Latvia’s repeatedly rain-sodden capital is akin to being blasted by a full-force leaf blower. Next up ...

This was the interesting experiment that Latvian musicians have just applied to the work of Russian Jew Mark Rothko, born in 1903 in what is now Daugavpils within their borders (it was then part of ...