Mēness dejas is a 1995 album containing eight songs by Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n band

Musical ensemble

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 Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian band formed in 1981 in Riga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of new wave as well as reggae in the former Soviet Union...

 as reinterpreted by Uģis Vītiņš. Originally found on four of the band's 1980s album releases, the songs have been re-arranged radically, and have had all the vocals re-recorded by the original vocalists.

Mēness dejas is notable as the band's first release on CD, and was done to meet the popular demand for a CD compilation of the band's hits. Thus, its concept could be compared to stopgap quasi-compilation releases from other synth pop artists like Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

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's The Mix

The Mix

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(1991) and Yello

Yello

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's 1980–1985 The New Mix in One Go (1986), both of which likewise contained newly-recorded versions of previously released material.

Uģis Vītiņš went on to appear on the band's next album, Kaķis

Kakis

Kaķis is the seventh album by Latvian band Dzeltenie Pastnieki, released in 2003. It was their first album of new material in 16 years, and the first release, of any kind, in 8 years.-Track listing:...

(2003) as well as played on Ingus Baušķenieks

Ingus Bauškenieks

Ingus Baušķenieks is a Latvian musician known as a member of Dzeltenie Pastnieki and as a solo artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist, with the bass guitar being his primary instrument in band engagements...

's solo tour (2004–2005). His brother Toms Vītiņš, who played bass and designed the cover, later also did the cover for the CD release of the album Alise

Alise

Alise is the third album by Latvian band Dzeltenie Pastnieki, released through magnitizdat in 1984, and 'officially' as late as 2004.The album was based on the music the band recorded for an amateur stage adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass,...

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Side one

1. "Pastnieks trakais" – 5:52
2. "Mēness deja" – 6:20
3. "Kāpēc tu mani negribi" – 6:20
4. "Rudens pastaiga (Rudens limits)" – 6:07

Side two

1. "Svešā malā" (Svētki Rojā mix) – 6:32
2. "Mana vasara aiziet (kā vēlējies)" – 6:17
3. "Milžu cīņa" – 5:30
4. "Jaunais gads" – 4:55

Credits

• Uģis Vītiņš - arrangements, programming, saxophone, management, production
• Ģirts Bišs - additional arrangements, programming
• Toms Vītiņš - bass arrangements, bass guitar, photography, artwork
• Arnolds Kārklis - guitar arrangements, electric & acoustic guitars, second voice on track 8
• Ingus Baušķenieks
  Ingus Bauškenieks
  Ingus Baušķenieks is a Latvian musician known as a member of Dzeltenie Pastnieki and as a solo artist. He is a multi-instrumentalist, with the bass guitar being his primary instrument in band engagements...
  
   - voice on tracks 1, 4, 6, 7 & 8
• Edīte Baušķeniece - voice on track 3
• Viesturs Slava - voice on tracks 2, 3 & 5
• Gatis Krūmiņš - trumpet
• Nils Īle - conga
  Conga
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  s on tracks 4 & 7
• Tālis Timrots - recording and mix engineering

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Baltic states Baltic states The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...	December 1, 1995	MicRec	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	MRCD 047
Baltic states Baltic states The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...	December 1, 1995	MicRec	cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	MRCC 158