“Ēnu kaleidoskops” (The Kaleidoscope of Shadows) is a neofolk band from Riga, Latvia whose beginnings may be traced to the Autumn of 2004, when Mārtiņš Links – the band’s guitarist, vocalist, piper and poet – was studying in Kaunas (Lithuania) and was easing his exile by walking in the local oak park talking with will-o’-the-wisps, blackbirds and juniper bushes with a sound recorder and a flute in a hand. That was the place where most of the band’s songs were created. After returning to Latvia, the songs were recorded anew with more instruments – a violin, a bass guitar and drums.

The idea of “Ēnu kaleidoskops” is to create a new mythology for today. And the shadows keep changing in the shadow kaleidoscope – getting darker, covering each other, shaping new life forms. That is the world besides us – ever shaping, ever unknowable.

In summer 2008, Mārtiņš Links joined STandART to replace the missing guitarist Juris Tipa. At the same time,  Kalvis Kluburs joined “Ēnu kaleidoskops” as a keyboard player. In August 2010, the band released its first full-time studio album “Ēnu kaleidoskops”

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MJR 2010. Photo taken from SielojRamiakas gallery.