Latvian musician Roberts Peičs and vocalist MONDA (Raimonda Liāna Gausiņa) announce the release of their new single, “This Feeling” — an emotionally wide-open electronic dance track about longing in its broadest, most universal sense. Energetic, melodic, and deliberately unspecific in its emotional target, the song invites every listener to decide for themselves exactly what feeling it is they are singing about.
“This Feeling” was born at the RIGaLIVE Songwriting Camp, where Roberts, MONDA, and Polish producer Filip Solen found themselves in the same team and under the same deadline. That pressure — the particular creative electricity of a songwriting camp, where ideas that might take weeks to develop alone are forced into focus within hours — produced something immediate and fully realised. Both artists value what that environment does to the creative process, and the result speaks for itself.
The track’s emotional ambiguity is not an accident. It is the point.
“We found a balance for the theme of love in the lyrics of the song by allowing everyone to figure out for themselves what this feeling is for them, what we are singing about,” Roberts explains. For some listeners, “This Feeling” will be a love song. For others, a longing for a specific moment in life that has passed, or one that hasn’t arrived yet. The lyrics hold space for all of it — and the production, firmly rooted in the energy and momentum of electronic dance music, gives that emotional openness a propulsive, physically felt charge.
Roberts — who names EDM as his soundtrack of choice on long drives — is clear about why the genre serves the song so well. “In this song, the stylistics of electronic dance music allows the text to be expressed in an energetically charged way.” The sound doesn’t soften the emotion. It amplifies it.
MONDA brings her own perspective to the release — one that goes beyond the single and speaks to the broader landscape of electronic music in Latvia, and the challenge facing any artist working outside what is considered commercially familiar.
“Electronic music continues to grow and develop,” she says, “but you have to be able to find a balance. Often musicians are afraid to try something new or ‘unpopular’ for the Latvian audience, although there are many young and experienced musicians in Latvia who create a wide variety of music, including electronic music, techno, drum and bass and a wide variety of other musical styles, but are not noticed or ‘popular’. Everyone finds their own group of listeners, but it is not always so easy because there is so much on offer. In music, everyone must follow their own path, tell their own story, and this will naturally allow them to find their own listener.”
“This Feeling” is Roberts Peičs and MONDA following their own path — and trusting the listener to find it.