Biography

Raimonds Tiguls /1972/ is Latvian composer, musician, author and producer. He has released many cd’s worldwide and became known in 1999 as a representative of ambient and electronic music. The International attention he has gained for his albums “Moonlight Sound Design” and “De Angelis”, released by the Latvian label UPE, and rereleased by the German record label ZYX Music, and music from the albums was featured on more than 20 music collections in Germany, Switzerland and Benelux countries. In 2011, he released the project “Islands” together with singers from Iceland and Gotland. He is also known as an author who has composed music for theatre and films “Gone with the Wind”, “Amadeus”, “Pillowman” and “Pinocchio”. Music Recording Awards On multiple occasions he has received the Latvian Music Recording Award in the category Best Instrumental His work “Dod, Dieviņi” (Give, Me God) was included in the XXV All Latvian Song Festival closing concert (2013). The Riga 2014 celebration included the dance performance “Lec, saulīte” (Rise, Sun) with Raimonds Tiguls’ music. World Music and Art Fund Raimonds Tiguls is the artistic director, brain and the soul behind his World music festival on highest hill /Tigulu hill/ in his home town Talsi. Between the oaks he has found a place where music from different nations as Iceland, Georgia, Armenia, UK and of course Latvia come together in united sound and ambience.