Kontrabanda - Liga (Live Kernavė 2007)

Sickest piece of music. Lithuanian Woodstock, Lithuanian Jimi Hendrix. Kontrabanda, 2007.

Liga (Disease)

Vėl (Once again)
Neklausk Kodėl (Don't ask me why)
Slystu Naktin (I'm slippin' to the night)
Tamson (the darkness)
Į Tuščias begalines gatves (to the empty endless streets)
Kur miegi net ir nubudęs (Where you sleep even when you're awake)
Eiti ten į kur tamsa nuves (To go there where the darkness leads)
Sudie viltie (Good bye, hope)
Sveika naktie (Hello, night)

Tik nestabdyk Manęs (Just don't stop me)
Tik nestabdyk Manęs (Just don't stop me)
Tik nestabdyk Manęs (Just don't stop me)
Sakau tau nestabdyk manęs (I said don't stop me)

Gal (Maybe)
Tai liga (It's a disease)
Gal [gal gal] (Maybe [maybe maybe])
Pabaiga (It's the end)
Sudie (Good bye)
Tu man ne tėvas (You ain't my father)
Tu man ne motina (You ain't my mother)
Tu man ne brolis (You ain't my brother)
Tu man ne moteris (You ain't my woman)

Tad nestabdyk manęs (So don't stop me)
Tad nestabdyk Manęs (So don't stop me)
Tad nestabdyk Manęs (So don't stop me)
Sakau tau nestabdyk manęs (I said don't you stop me)


„Kontrabanda" ("Contraband") is one of the most mysterious and unpredictable groups in Lithuanian scene. It was created in about 1990. Since 1993 it recorded five albums, but only one of them („Blūdas" -- "The Rampage; 1995, M.E.G.A. Records) was released "legally". All other albums were released in minimal number of copies by unofficial underground record businesses -- it came out later that none these businesses actually existed (Old Bones Records and others). The geography of group's concerts is also unusual -- from Gothenburg poetry festival to Somerfest of Conrad Adenauer fund in Berlin, form a bit illegal concerts in tiny villages of Lithuania, where the fans of "Kontrabanda" gathered from all over the country, to a concert of Jim Hendrix jubilee in Moscow. In if you add that from 2002 the band for some reasons was called "Rokfeleriai" (precisely like that, in Lithuanian -- "Rokfeleriai", but by no way "The Rockefellers") and came back to its old name in 2006, that the first album of this group ends with monologue from Peter Handke's play Publikumsbeschimpfung ("Offending the Audience" and that a famous Lithuanian poet -- Gintaras Grajauskas -- sings, plays bass guitar and writes the song texts for this rgoup, you will understand that it has kind of shade of Fluxus...

It would be hard to describe the music of this group in one or two words. If we speak about all the albums, while having in mind that most of them radically differs from each other, the term to describe the music of "Kontrabanda" can be "fusion" -- or "postmodern" if you like. The first three albums of the group might be called rhythm-and-blues -- or maybe simply blues-rock -- which was replayed in Eastern Europe and modified in Lithuanian style, spiced with frippic (Robert Fripp, King Crimson) guitar -- the latter played by one of the most professional Lithuanian guitarists Vilius Ančeris. The rest of the albums, released in the name of "Rokfeleriai", are more oriented towards bossa-nova, latino and funky music. All of them are joined together by original texts of Gintaras Grajauskas, sang only in Lithuanian. For foreign listeners, who want to understand what "Kontrabanda" is singing about, the group has special "jazz-poetry" (or to be more precise - fusion-poetry) program, during which the translations of the texts are synchronically demonstrated on the screen. This program gained big success in Gothenburg poetry festival.

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[zilvisj]

nuostabi grupė ir nuostabus festivalis

[H0spitaller]

WOW !!!! ka cia be pridursi .... Brolau dekui, kad imetei sita videoklipa

[shakybloodyhands]

Yo, and you're a lady! You've got to be kidding me. Spanish girl talking about eastern Europe? What the fuck would YOU know? And you're 19 years old, I don't believe you've ever visited any of the countries you're talking about. And you lack creativity and imagination, you dumb cunt, get the FUCK away from this video, go and try to ruin someone else's day, instead of writing that same shit over and over again. Puta mierda.... suck my balls, que poco perra!

[Johniisss]

Kad nekopijuoja jis hendrixo stiliaus:)

[shakybloodyhands]

Troll? I guess you're talking about Scandinavia:D

[shakybloodyhands]

Fuck you, you communist bastard. Stay away from Baltic countries, 'cuz if you'd come, you'd leave in a small casket, you God damned motherfucker. que mierda rusia, viva Letonia, Lituania y Estonia!

[plattform5163]

Very good music!

[skeletonation]

Geriausia lietuvos grupe be klausimu. Gitaristas puikus, bet mano galva per daug nori buti Hendrixu, o ne savimi.