Progiesmiai by PELKĖ

With our debut album, “Progiesmiai“ (untranslatable to English), we can share with you the genesis and progression of our 20 year creative journey. The emotional modulations of the A Side brings thread together the songs from Pelkė’s beginnings bubbling with youthful idealism. In musical counterpoint to Side A, the B Side represents the band’s current musical direction and the move towards a new form of “Poetic Rock. The album “Progiesmiai“ is named after the unique lyric genre of Lithuanian poet Antanas Kalanavičius. “Progiesmiai“ is the Lithuanian version of the Japanese “haiku“: fateful revelations born in solitude. With this album “Pelkė“ pays a small tribute to our unappreciated literary talent who wrote free poetry rich with peculiar and vibrant language. Kalanavicius’ poetry was born in deprivation, loneliness and wilderness. His poems are like cranberries of the wild swamp untouched by human hand or heart for a thousand years.