JAZZ NIGHTS: CinAmono duo - Laura BUDRECKYTĖ (voice, percussion) and Vytis NIVINSKAS (double bass)

CinAmono was founded in Vilnius (Lithuania) during fall 2013 by Laura Budreckytė (voice) and Vytis Nivinskas (double bass) as a duo. Founders of the band invited different musicians to realise their creative ideas varying the line-up from a duo to a quintet. CinAmono has participated in various music, literature, dance and art festivals in its native Lithuania and has performed in Germany, Latvia, Estonia and Hungary.

CinAmono recorded three studio albums: CinAmono (2018/2019), Music is the Ocean (2021), CinAmono Duo (2024) and released one virtual collection of early recordings Cinamono Collection 2013-2017. The group’s music has been included four times in the Lithuanian Jazz Federation’s Jazz from Lithuania collection and twice in the Lithuanian Music Information Centre’s collection Note Lithuania: Jazz. The latest band’s released album CinAmono duo (2024), features the lyrics of 7 Lithuanian poets and their own original music for duo: voice and bass.

CinAmono is a very interesting and professional collective which offers theatrical atmosphere and slightly magic, ceremonial, involving music. At the core of the collective is a family tandem of Laura Budreckytė and Vytis Nivinskas. Good poetry that requires exclusive sonic approach and suggestion often becomes the pivot of their joint creative work. It features vibrant forms, special melodies and broad, easily expanding spaces for improvisation. Since this is a real ensemble of soloists, themes

develop into lush, rich monologues and series of conversations, supplement with sounds of encouragement and feelings of awe from the audience.