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Artist
Skylė
12+ albums
folk rockrocklithuanianalternative rocklithuanian rock
about
"Skylė" ("Hole") was found in autumn of 1991. It started as a student rock group playing it's own original music which was a mixture of different styles ranging from punk to folk to art-rock. It received a very warm welcome during the first concerts in student festivals. However, the five people playing guitar, bass, keyboards, violin and drums didn't want to confine themselves within the narrow frame of a rock group. "Skylė" turned into a circle of open-minded people. They started to organize underground art exhibitions and festivals, like "Free Tibet" in 1995, involving a lot of young people with different talents. During the period of 1994-1995 four issues of a zine "Balsas is rusio" ("Voice from the Cellar") and an almanac of alternative art and poetry "Plysys" ("Cleft") came out. In 1995 "Skylė" started to work with a "fire, music and puppets" theater "Miraklis". Rokas Radzevičius, the leader of "Skylė", composed music for two plays of "Miraklis". "Skylė" recorded the music and then all seven members of the band tried themselves as actors in performance of "Sv. Stepono 7 pro memoria" ("In the memory of St. Stephen's street 7") dedicated to the story of one destroyed building of Vilnius old town. In 1996 a very talented singer Aistė Smilgevičiūtė joined "Skylė". The girl with a very specific strong voice later represented Lithuania in the international TV song contest Eurovision ’99). In 1998 "Skylė" was officially recognized as a center of creative initiatives. In 1998
