Best picks from 15th edition of Tallinn Music Week, Estonia’s flagship event and one of the best showcase festivals in Europe, including Ed O’Brien’s new favourite band.
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A sophisticated collection of songs from up-and-coming Estonian musician.
A sophisticated collection of songs from up-and-coming Estonian musician.
Estonian folk goddess Mari Kalkun spend the lockdown in her orchard, with a piano she got from her grandmother.
There’s no snow in Tallinn today, and neither in most other capital cities of the region, but the new album from Erki Pärnoja will make up for the winter atmosphere.
There’s no snow in Tallinn today, and neither in most other capital cities of the region, but the new album from Erki Pärnoja will make up for the winter atmosphere.
Do you know Erki Pärnoja? Of course you do by now. But he’s back with a new video “Eha”, which is one of the best works in his catalogue yet.
Do you know Erki Pärnoja? Of course you do by now. But he’s back with a new video “Eha”, which is one of the best works in his catalogue yet.
Sometimes you feel you’re fallin’? We all do. We need to fall down to stand up again.
Sometimes you feel you’re fallin’? We all do. We need to fall down to stand up again.
Sometimes the best things happen spontaneously.
Sometimes the best things happen spontaneously.
A proper outsider music type, deliciously batty producer and sound-collagist Mihkel Kleis launched his Ratkiller alias sometime around 2011, trying to catch his idiosyncratic impression of everything that can be called “contemporary electronic club music”.
This aptly named threesome comes alive where the new and old collide and spark, taking the hauntological blasts from the past – scratchy archive recordings of long vanished village singers – splicing the traditional instruments with electronics and pulling it right into the 21st century.
This aptly named threesome comes alive where the new and old collide and spark, taking the hauntological blasts from the past – scratchy archive recordings of long vanished village singers – splicing the traditional instruments with electronics and pulling it right into the 21st century.
The sophomore release by the Estonian jazz-funk quintet bears the quirky name “Jazzbeatjäätis”, a compound word consisting of ’jazz’, ’beat’, and ’ice cream’.
The sophomore release by the Estonian jazz-funk quintet bears the quirky name “Jazzbeatjäätis”, a compound word consisting of ’jazz’, ’beat’, and ’ice cream’.