MaLituanie project

“MaLituanie” the first-of-its-kind world music album recorded and released in Lithuania. The album easily and inseparably fuses the harmonies of traditional Malian and Lithuanian music, tells stories of wanderings and homesickness; of new experience in exotic lands, and the duty to preserve our cultural memory.

"MaLituanie" was recorded by

Baba Sissoko
Baba Sissoko
Big and small ngoni, tamani, guitar, vocal
from Mali
babasissoko.com
Victor Diawara
Victor Diawara
Guitar, vocal
Lithuanian musician
originally from Mali
skamp.lt
Laurita Peleniutė
Laurita Peleniutė
Vocal, ocarina, water, percussion
from Lithuania
margamuzika.com
Saulius Petreikis
Saulius Petreikis
multi-instrumentalist

from Lithuania
fb/sauliuspetreikismusic
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė
Vocal, Baltic psaltery

from Lithuania
meropemusic.com

album recording process

“MaLituanie” was recorded live in the studio in only four days and each composition was performed only once. Thirty songs were recorded; thirteen of them were included into this album.

An attentive listening to each other has freed up the most unexpected musical correspondences and opened deep universal meanings. Without knowledge of it, the performers were singing about the same things: a man and a woman, the care of the Mother Earth, the eternal human life cycle.

This is how “MaLituanie“ was born.