Spalvotas
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Spalvotas is a music album
Music Album
Music album is the name of:* Music Album , a 1970s Canadian television series* Album, a collection of music tracks...

 by the Lithuanian group B'Avarija
B'Avarija
B'Avarija is a musical band in Lithuania, which was formed in 1996.They won a lot of awards for best songs. They have made several attempts to win the Lithuanian national finals in order to represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest but no attempt was successful.In 2002, they won the...

. It was released in 2004. All vocals are in the Lithuanian language
Lithuanian language
Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

.

The music on this album is best described as pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 with a little bit of a Eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...

 feel to most of the tracks. Each track is quite different in musical feel. This could also be described as "Feel good" music, house or even party music.

The track entitled "Daina Mylimajai" does not have any dance feel to it at all as it is a ballad sung using only a piano as backing. The piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 on this track has a very strong classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 feel to it and the karaoke
Karaoke
is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...

 version gives listeners a chance to hear the pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

's technique in full, if they do not wish to use it for karaoke purposes.

While this is quite a pleasant ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

, it is not clear why it is on the album as it does not really releate to any of the other songs in terms of genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...

 or musical taste.

Negaila Ne Cento has a slight Latin American taste to it and Vien Tik Tau is a like a ballad but with a beat behind it as well as a classical piano interlude, but not as much piano as Daina Mylimajai as it only really appears at this one point in the song.

Ant Kalno Klevelis is like a male choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 song with a strong beat like Uzh Save, Uzh Tave, only this song has some rapping
Rapping
Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

 between the choir-type parts. Tegul Dunda (Nah, Neh, Nah) sounds like a "Wild West" type of song.

Tracklisting

  1. Spalvotas
  2. Kol Vejas Pus
  3. Daina Mylimajai
  4. Lietuvaite Nuodeminga
  5. Mes Galim
  6. Tegul Dunda (Nah, Neh, Nah)
  7. Negaila Ne Cento
  8. Ant Kalno Klevelis
  9. Tu Mergaite Princese
  10. Vien Tik Tau
  11. Nulis
  12. Bukim Jauni
  13. Uzh Save, Uzh Tave
  14. Spalvotas (karaoke)
  15. Daina Mylimajai (karaoke)
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