Monday 14 September 2009, 8pm
Alina Orlova is a 19-year-old singer songwriter. From her first appearance 3 years ago her alternative and unique style instantly fascinated the Lithuanian public. Alina was born in the town of Visaginas where she began her writing and singing.
With beautiful violin melodies, heartfelt lyrics and piano sections which dance around, tying the compositions together, Alina was soon drawn to the Lithuanian capital – Vilnius. Her distinctive songs were immediately recognized by the industry through a host of music industry Awards. Pravda 2007 awarded her “Novice of the Year”, at the Alternative Music Awards she was nominated for “Burst of the Year” and in 2008 she was nominated as “Voice of the People”.
Since releasing her first album "Laukinis Suo Dingo", her music has attained huge interest. Recently she has toured around Lithuania, later going to Russia, UK and France including an appearance at the Sound City festival in Liverpool.
Her live performances normally leave an entire room spellbound, inspired and amazed with her dual-language quirky take on Eastern European traditional folk music mixed with plenty of modern Western Influences. Her incredibly unique voice is often accompanied by piano, accordian, cajon and assorted percussion to give a full all encompassing sound.
Alina is considered to be one of the most promising new talents from Lithuania. If you are a fan of Coco Rosie, Camille, Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom and all things interesting in the world of female voices this is for you.
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