Dedicated to my boyfriend who's on the other side of the world during the cold winter days and nights.

Winter Song - Ingrid Michaelson & Sara Bareilles (Cover by Marika Arro - Winter Song )

Music by:
KANISAIFA (1.-8., 10.), Iranian folk song (9.)

Lyrics: 
Latvian folk song (2.), Agnese Uzule (3.), Laima Mūrniece (4.), Ojārs Vācietis (5.), Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh (9.)

KANISAIFA
Nils Īle: djembe, vocal, kalimba, balafon, dundun, steeltongue drum, shakers, other percussions. 
Maija Sējāne Īle: vocal, jew's harp, dundun, Koshi bells, shakers, singing bowls, vibrotone, frog, rainstick.
Agnese Uzule: kalimba, tin whistle, bansuri flutes, futuyara, vocal, dundun, jew's harp, bells. 
Einārs Latiševs: djembe, dundun, kongas, kowbells, shakers.
Roberts Brants: bassguitar
Jānis Tumpelis: guitar
Alvis Zembergs: didgeridoo, tambourine
Edgars Jansons: djembe, dundun, bird, blocks.
Fabiass Nils Īle: metallophone, djembe, balafon. 

Also featuring Hamidreza Rahbaralam (3., 9.): daf, vocal, dundun

Sound recording and mix: Aivars Vaišļa
Artwork: Baiba Rēdere / Agnese Uzule
Management: Raivis Dzjamko

www.kanisaifa.com

2. Melni vērši / Black Oxen

World music band, based in Riga, Latvia. 
We create our musical paintings of sounds from all around our world.

Matured in creative environment of Nils Ile music studio, transformed from band Afroambient - the first ethnopercussion band in Latvia /since 2001/- expanding their creative horizons and manifesting a dream in this reality and becoming Kanisaifa.

Nils Īle: creative father, percussion master;
Agnese Uzule: ethnic wind instruments, vocal, percussions;
Maija Sējāne-Īle: vocal, jew's harp, percussions;
Einārs Latiševs: djembe virtuosso, master of electronics;
Alvis Zembergs: didgeridoo, percussions;
Jānis Tumpelis: guitar;
Roberts Brants: bassguitar;
Edgars Jansons: percussions;
Fabiass Nils Īle: percussions.

2. Melni vērši / Black Oxen

Kanisaifa

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