Daudytės is a very long instrument made from straight ashen, sallow, maple, elm or birch trunk covered with birch bark. The sound of daudytė is loud and festive, perfect for the occasional fanfare. Their sound resembles commonly known brass instruments (horns, trumpets and trombones). Played by two players. Repertoire – chanting multipart songs (sutartinės).

Year of manufacture: 1995
Instrument maker: Egidijus Virbašius

Kindly loaned for use in the project by Antanas Fokas.

Lietava is a celebration of sixteen rare traditional Lithuanian folk instruments by the highly respected Lithuanian musicians Saulius Petreikis and Domas Strupinskas. These are instruments that once had pivotal roles for the people of historic Lithuania, yet many are now all but forgotten; some have never been professionally recorded before.

Through their approach to the production and performance of the album, Domas and Saulius have created an aesthetic manifesto about the relationship between tradition and renewal. Inspired by minimalism and documentary sound recordings, it serves to challenge folk orthodoxy; an approach for which the artists have coined the term ‘shifting folk’.

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