Naktis is the sixth album by Latvian

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 band

Musical ensemble

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 Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian band formed in 1981 in Riga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of new wave as well as reggae in the former Soviet Union...

, released through magnitizdat

Magnitizdat

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 in 1987, and was the last one of the band's six 1980s albums to see an official CD release. Before the October 21, 2010 issue, the album was widely shared on P2P

Peer-to-peer

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 networks in several versions of tape-to-computer transfers done by fans. The name of the album translates as "Nights" or "The Nights" from Latvian

Latvian language

Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...

, referring to the hours the sessions most often took place.

As a favourite of both fans and critics alike, the album is perhaps the band's strongest full-length statement. So far, it is the only album besides Bolderājas dzelzceļš

Bolderajas dzelzcelš

Bolderājas dzelzceļš is the official debut album by Latvian band Dzeltenie Pastnieki, following the demo recording Madonas galerts. It was released through magnitizdat in 1981, and 'officially' in 2003. The name of the album is Latvian for "The Railroad of/to Bolderāja" and is commonly misspelt as...

to feature live drumming by Ilgvars Rišķis, and marked a return to that album's guitar/bass-centered sound. Both synthesizers and tape manipulation

Audio engineering

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 were also still prominent in the band's sound.

Track listing

Written by Ingus Baušķenieks

Ingus Bauškenieks

Ingus Baušķenieks is a Latvian musician known as a member of Dzeltenie Pastnieki and as a solo artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist, with the bass guitar being his primary instrument in band engagements...

/Ilgvars Rišķis/Viesturs Slava/Zigmunds Streiķis, except where noted.

1. "Noguris un nelaimīgs" (Baušķenieks/Rišķis/Streiķis) — 3:55
2. "Lāstekas" — 4:30
3. "Spogulis" — 4:30
4. "Skola" — 4:50
5. "Putni un lietus" (Slava/Roberts Gobziņš
   Roberts Gobzinš
   Roberts Gobziņš , also known as Eastbam or East Bam is a Latvian musician, DJ, MC, radio personality and parliamentary candidate...
   
   ) — 5:00
6. "Rēta dvēselē" — 5:35
7. "Pavasaris (ir grūts laiks)" — 4:55
8. "Man nav neviena, kam to teikt" — 4:00
9. "Jaunais gads" — 4:50
10. "Serenāde (Tev nesāpēs sirds)" (Baušķenieks) — 4:15

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...	October 21, 2010	Ingus Baušķenieka ieraksti	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	IBCD 207