Auļi is a Latvian

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/ world music band formed in 2003. The band consists of 6 bagpipers, 3 drummers and 1

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player.

History

In 2005 Auļi released their 12-track debut album ''Sendzirdēju''. In 2010 the band released their third studio album titled ''Etnotranss'' (Ethno trance), a term they created to describe their music. The album features Andris Grunte on

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. On May 4, 2013, Auļi performed a 10-year anniversary concert at Palladium Riga. The same month the band released a

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album ''Dižducis'' with 12 of their previously released compositions, re-arranged by multi-instrumentalist Kārlis Auzāns and joined by Juris Kaukulis from Dzelzs Vilks, folk singer Zane Šmite, Madagascarian musician Kilema (vocals and

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) and other guest musicians. In 2016 Auļi released their fifth studio album ''Gadalokos'' with compositions about the Latvian seasons (''Sala laiks'', ''Sērsnu laiks'', ''Pavasara laiks'', ''Ziedu laiks'', ''Siena laiks'', ''Rudens laiks'', ''Veļu laiks'' and ''Ledus laiks'') and celebrations ( Meteņi,

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, Ūsiņi,

Jāņi Jāņi () is an annual Latvian festival celebrating the summer solstice. Although astronomically the solstice falls on 21 or 22 June, the public holidays—Līgo Day and Jāņi Day—are on 23 and 24 June. The day before Jāņi is known as Līg ...

Māras Māras () or Māra Day ( lv, Māras diena; sometimes referred as Great Māra Day or Mother Day) was a Latvian festival, devoted to Māra, an ancient deity, and was celebrated on 15 August. According to solar calendar, Māras marks the midpoint ...

, Apjumības,

Mārtiņi Mārtiņi () or Mārtiņdiena is an ancient Latvian winter welcoming holiday, when the time of pieguļa and shepherding came to an end. According to a solar calendar, Mārtiņdiena marks the midpoint between the autumnal equinox (Miķeļi) and w ...

, Ziemassvētki and

Pieguļa Pieguļa (; in Latvia) or naktigonė (in Lithuania) was an ancient tradition of grazing common types of horses during night, that existed about until the early 20th century. After winter, the grazing horses were released on their own for the first t ...

). The album was inspired by a calendar pendant found in an 1999–2000 archaeological excavation in

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. In 2017 Auļi together with Tautumeitas released a 13-track album ''Lai māsiņa rotājās!'' dedicated to engagements and

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s. The album received Annual Latvian Music Recording Award as the Best Folk music album of 2017. ''Lai māsiņa rotājās!'' also reached position No. 26 in the 2018 World Music Charts Europe, as well as No. 38 in the April 2018 and May 2018 Transglobal World Music Chart. In 2019 Auļi released a 12 song album ''Senĉu Balsis: Voices of the Ancestors'' featuring four guest musicians (Batzorig Vaanchig, Albin Paulus, Kai Somby, and Edgars Lipors) each representing a distinctive singing style (

Tuvan throat singing Tuvan throat singing, the main technique of which is known as ''khoomei'' ( tyv, хөөмей, xöömej, mn, хөөмий; ᠬᠦᠭᠡᠮᠡᠢ, khöömii, russian: хоомей, Chinese: 呼麦, pinyin: ''hūmài''), includes a type of overt ...

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, joiking, and traditional Latvian singing). Two months after the release of the studio album Auļi released a live concert recording of this album called ''Voices of the Ancestors (Live at GORS, Rēzekne, 2019)''. In 2020 Auļi released a

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inspired remote performance single alongside many other drummers and bagpipe players called ''Alšvangas Dūdu Meldiņš.'' This performance was released 10 May 2020 amidst the

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. In 2021 Auļi released a 12-composition instrumental album ''Visapkārt'' ("Immersive") using

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technology.

Members

* Kaspars Bārbals — dūdas,

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and drums * Leanne Barbo —

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and jew's harp * Gatis Valters —

ģīga The ģīga or divstīdzis is a two-stringed bowed zither found in Latvia. The instrument is descended from the psalmodicon ( lv, vienstīdzis or ''manihorka''), a bowed monochord developed in Sweden in 1829 for liturgical singing. From there it f ...

and drums * Māris Jēkabsons — dūdas and vocals * Edgars Kārklis — dūdas * Normunds Vaivads — dūdas * Gatis Indrēvics — dūdas and bombard * Mikus Čavarts —

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* Edgars Krūmiņš — drums * Kaspars Indrēvics — tree trunk drums

Discography

* ''Sendzirdēju'' (2005) * ''Auļos...'' (2007) * ''Etnotranss'' (2010) * ''Dižducis'' (2013) * ''Gadalokos'' (2016) * ''Lai māsiņa rotājās!'' (2017; with Tautumeitas) * ''Senču balsis'' (2019) * ''Voices of the Ancestors (Live at GORS, Rēzekne, 2019)'' * ''Visapkārt'' (2021)

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control 2003 establishments in Latvia Latvian folk music groups Latvian world music groups Musical groups established in 2003