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50 albums · 1977–2026

Music of Lithuania, from Kernagis and Foje to the sutartinės revival and today

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The crowd and the massed choirs at the song festival stage in Vingis Park, Vilnius
Two singers in traditional dress holding hands as they sing a sutartinėAndrius Mamontovas on stage with green hair and a leather jacket
The Dainų šventė song festival at the Vingis Park stage in Vilnius, 2009. Photo: Andrius Vanagas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Two singers performing a sutartinė, the old polyphonic song of the north-east. Photo: Bcecilija, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. · Andrius Mamontovas of Foje on stage. Photo: Augustas Didžgalvis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lithuania's popular music has a festival at its centre, the Dainų šventė in Vingis Park, and a singing of its own, the sutartinės, and around them: Vytautas Kernagis with his guitar in the seventies, the rock of Antis, Foje, Bix and Hiperbolė, the Ganelin Trio's free jazz from Vilnius, Andrius Mamontovas, Sel and Skamp in the nineties, the folk revival of Atalyja, Kūlgrinda and Žalvarinis, Jurga, Alina Orlova and G&G Sindikatas in the 2000s, the electronic pop of Happyendless, Leon Somov & Jazzu and Golden Parazyth, the indie of Garbanotas, Solo Ansamblis and ba., Čiurlionis played by Mūza Rubackytė, and The Roop, Monika Liu and Silvester Belt, who took Vilnius to Eurovision. The list has 50 records from 1977 to 2026, one or two by each of the names above and only a small part of what they made; Foje is here as a collection because its albums are not on Deezer, and most of the classical tradition, the choirs of the song festival, the village ensembles and the diaspora would each need a list of their own. About 44 hours of music, 5 days of a few records each.

By genre

Rock 19%Pop 14%Folk & Country 11%Other 56%
  • Rock 19%
  • Pop 14%
  • Folk & Country 11%
  • Other 56%

The genres named most: lithuanian, pop, indie, rock, electronic, folk.

The colours of the covers

A stripe for each cover, in the colour Tidal picks from it, sorted by hue; the greys at the end.

Where the music comes from

Music from 1 country: Lithuania 50. The deeper the colour, the more albums: one, two to four, five to nine, ten and more.

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