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tracks a1, a2, a4, a5, b1, b5 backing vocals Diana Gružauskaitė
tracks b5 backing vocals Justė Sakalytė
tracks a1, a2, a5, b1, b3, b5 backing vocals Kristijonas Noreika
tracks a1, a2, a3, a5, b1, b3, b5 backing vocals Martynas Stanionis
tracks a1, b1 backing vocals Vladas Kovaliovas
tracks a4, b1, b5 backing vocals Žaneta Taurinskienė
tracks b3, b4 flute Neda Malūnavičiūtė
guitar, programmed by, mixed by Kristijonas Noreika
tracks a4 harmonica Aleksandr Belkin
tracks b1 harmonica Giedrius Čiurinskas
tracks a4, b1, b2, b5 keyboards Ričardas Mekionis
tracks a3, a4, a5 lyrics by Giedrius Čiurinskas
mastered by Artūras Pugačiauskas
music by, vocals Giedrius Čiurinskas
tracks a5 saxophone Justė Sakalytė
tracks b2 vocals Neda Malūnavičiūtė
Debut album by Lituanian poetic rock band PELKĖ (eng. Swamp), founded in 1999.
LP released in 300 copies. 180 g black vinyl. Comes with solid 24 page booklet with paintings, lyrics, translations into English.

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.
Matrix / Runout: Z04522E1/A, Z04522E2/B