Watch! Rapper ansis offers a clip for the song ‘Duck’ from the award-winning album ‘Great Art’

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ansis in cooperation with Armless Birds Productions offers a video version of one of the most popular songs of the award-winning album “Big Art” (2020) “Duck”, in which rapper rolands če and violinist Kristīne Balanas participate.

ansis is a rapper and hip-hop music producer from Ķemeri, Jūrmala; one of the members of the associations “Dirty Deal Audio”, “PKI” and “Kreisais Krasts”. He has been fascinated with rap since 2001, but he has gained wider recognition and recognition from music viewers after the “Golden Microphone” award-winning album “Balzams” (2017, Dirty Loops) and the hit “Earth Hour” (2018) together with Kristīne Pāži and Kaspars. Ansonu. Known in Latvian hip-hop circles as one of the most technical and versatile rappers. Anša’s latest album “Big Art” (2020, Dirty Loops) has become Spotify’s first streaming Latvian music recording in 24 hours. “Great Art” was awarded two trophies at the recent Music Record of the Year Award “Golden Microphone 2021”, winning both the title of the best domestic hip-hop music recording of the year and the title of the best album of the year, which the rap recording receives for the first time in Latvia.

rolands če is a rapper, songwriter and producer from talsi, who has been involved in music for more than ten years, focusing on it more professionally in 2016. He works in music both as a solo artist and has participated in several joint projects, the best known of which is a duo with a colleague, rapper xantikvariāts – the last joint album “Siera Plate 2” has won the audience’s response, Since 2020, he has become one of the Latvian musicians represented by Universal Music Group, with the second single “Again Already”, released in collaboration with the label, entering the “Golden Microphone” nomination list among the best music videos of Latvia in 2020.

Violinist Kristīne Balanas, once called a “shocking virtuoso” musician by the British newspaper The Times, won third place in the prestigious ARD music competition (Germany’s most important classical music competition). also the Young Talent Excellence Foundation Award from Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain. She has been a soloist with several of the world’s leading orchestras (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Chamber Orchestra and many more), and has frequently visited the Berlin Philharmonic, Southbank Art Center and Carnegie Hall in New York. From street musician and rock and roll singer in Latvia to studies at the Georgian Pauk with honors at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Hans Eisler University in Berlin with Kola Blaher, this has created Kristine’s special, charismatic style of play, described by The Strad as dramatic ”.

The video version of “Duck” was created by Armless Birds Productions, producer – Ritvars Stankevičs. Cinematographers – Artūrs Valdmanis and Artūrs Vanags, director – Artūrs Vanags and Ritvars Stankevičs, editing director – Artūrs Valdmanis, roles – Ansis Kolmanis, Rolands Čivčs, Kristīne Balanas, Artūrs Jenots and Linda Beķere, assistant producer – Līva Kolmane , makeup – Anita Zvirbule.

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