Romowe Rikoito

Romowe Rikoito
Origin	Neringa, Lithuania
Genres	Dark folk
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Brudenia, Ars Benevola Mater, Dangus
Associated acts	Donis
Website	Official site

Members	Niktorius, Āulaukis
Notable instruments
guitars, cello, violin, kanklės

Romowe Rikoito is a dark folk musical group from Lithuania Minor. It was formed by Glabbis Niktorius at 1995 and named after ancient Prussian spiritual center Romowe (also known as Rikoyto). Group has published 4 albums – first two albums Narcissism and L’Automne Eternel based on ideas of melancholy, death, grieve while Āustradēiwa and Undēina dedicated to Old Prussia.

The music of Romowe Rikoito is characterized as "deep, unique, full of twilight, melancholy, sacred harmony, mysterious hope and decadence".^[1] Compositions are performed by acoustic guitars, cello, flute, violin, keyboards. This band performed various poems written by Aleister Crowley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Gerard de Nerval, Chidiock Tichborne also a Prussian version of intro of the first Lithuanian poem "Metai" by Kristijonas Donelaitis.

In 2014, Lithuanian independent music label published Romowe Rikoito's 4th album Undēina which is described as a "magical journey through modern Western Baltic world". Almost all compositions are performed in Prussian language, beside using dark folk instruments, its sounding enriched by folk instruments as kanklės or ocarina.^[2] Undēina is dedicated to the Prussian mythology, sages and sacred places. All sounds were recorded in nature while visiting forests, rivers, sacred places of Old Prussia.^[3]

Members

Current

Glabbis Niktorius – vocal, guitars
Alwārmija – vocal
Āulaukis – guitars
Anny – cello

Former

Johnny – guitars

Discography

Narcissism (1997)
L’Automne Eternel (2000)
Āustradēiwa (2005)
Undēina (2014)
Nawamār (2016)

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