Kreiviskai

Neofolk- / Ethno-Ambient- / Darkfolk-act from Tver. The Kreiviskai music is based on Tver song folklore, Krivitch mythology, the archetypes of the people of swamps and forests, the noise of the age-old Okovo forest, the tranquility of unhurried Tver rivers. The act has found its present form on the crooked evenings of the 2013 Winter Solstice. Then a record Zemmis Supnāi (Pruss. "Dreams of the Earth") was recorded in an improvised studio on the outskirts of the historic Tver suburb. A few years earlier, the participants of the act were selected to complete the concept of “Dreams of the Earth”, delving into local mythology, collecting a variety of ancient instruments, studying the folklore techniques of ancient Tolshchina. All current members of Kreiviskai are from the Balti ethnofuturistic project Tver.

Creativity Kreiviskai is dedicated to the rich and difficult fate of the territory of the Upper Volga, where history is intertwined with mythology, Russian with Lithuanian, and the truth - with a curve ...

"Nonregnum" is the second full-length album made by Kreiviskai, the band from Tver, playing at the intersection of folk, ritual and ethnographic-ambient genres. After the authentic and incredibly atmospheric debut album "Zemmis Supnai", released in 2014, the musicians took a significant step forward and literally drove everyone crazy with their ritual single "Dāinas – Dwāi wangas”, which was released in the cold autumn of 2016.

Dainas was the first warning of that we should expect something extraordinary from the second album of this band.

Admittedly, Kreiviskai didn’t disappoint anyone. "Nonregnum" is a truly fundamental work with amazing diversity and above all conceptuality, which wasтexpressed both in external design of the release and in itsтsound. Without losing touch with authentic source and traditional instruments, the band generously enriched the original “archeo” with epic as well as the whole web of “audio-futurum”, woven from such genres as martial, neoclassic, post-folk, darkwave and even black-metal.

The members of such bands as COMPASS MAURI, HAGL, ARCANORUM ASTRUM and PRAGNAVIT have also took part in the creation of the album.

Kreiviskai - Discography

Nonregnum (2018)

Zemmis Supnāi (2014, remastered 2018)

Dāinas - Dwāi Wangās (Single) (2016)