International jazz festival Jazzkaar returned to Tallinn over the weekend and continues until 28th April at the specially built unique Marina Pavilion by the sea at the Port of Tallinn grounds. It’s twenty fourth time for the festival and it is again attracting many international talents. The main performers are soul-jazz talent Zara McFarlane from […]
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Chris Glew talks to British music journalist Andrew Childs about his latest venture – featuring Estonian bands Kreatiivmootor and Elephants from Neptune. Foyles Jazz Cafe in central London seems an appropriate place in which to discuss music. My interlocutor is Andrew Childs, a music journalist whose latest project – Club Radio Free Europe – aims
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Greip is a vocal ensemble from Pärnu, Estonia. They came together in 2006 and have grown to become one of the freshest acts on Estonian music scene; Kristjan Lillemets spoke to band members and chatted about their story, future and a recent tour in the United States. The band’s first music video, “Vihma Loits” (“Rain
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Estonian band Zebra Island has just released their debut album Saturnine. The band has a short, but colourful history. Zebra Island was formed in the autumn of 2011, when producer and multi-instrumentalist Rasmus Lill joined forces with vocalist Helina Risti. Lauri Raus on guitars, Caspar Salo on drums and Martti Laas also joined the group. 2012
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Tallinn Music Week is a 3-day music industry conference and one of the biggest indoor festivals in the Baltic region that started out in 2009. The mission of the festival, taking place for the fifth time this year, is to raise the reputation of Estonian music, to enhance the international development of local music industry
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A London-based classical music review website has, for the second year running, named Arvo Pärt the year’s most-performed living composer. Bachtrack.com put the 77-year-old Estonian in 54th place overall in its “Concert and Opera League Tables 2012,” a list created from a sampling of 12,597 concerts and 4,451 opera performances. According to Bachtrack.com, the league
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BBC Music Magazine and its official website Classical-music.com chose ECM’s 2012 CD of Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament as its recording of the month for January 2013. The disc contains the Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Vox Clamantis performing Adam’s Lament and also Beatus Petronius, Salve Regina, Statuit ei Dominus, Alleluia-Tropus, L’Abbé Agathon, Estonian
“Meil on aega veel” – “We still have time” by Estonian band Põhja Tallinn (North-Tallinn) was voted as “The song of the year 2012” by Estonia’s popular Radio 2 listeners. “We still have time” is the fourth single from the band’s debut album “Per Aspera Ad Astra”. A fascinating combination of rap and choirmusic, it
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The man behind Leigo Lake Music Festival, Estonian Tõnu Tamm has dedicated the past two decades of his life to his obsession of creating artificial lakes. Surrounded by water in the south of Estonia, his enthusiasm is infectious as he insists everyone should do their bit for the environment and take tiny steps that help
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Liisi Koikson is an Estonian singer and actress. She is a graduate of the highly acclaimed Georg Ots Tallinn Music School, has performed in several plays and the musicals “Evita“, “Aida“, “Miss Saigon“, “The Sound of Music“, “Jesus Christ Superstar“, “Grease“ and “Georg“. She also had a feature role in the motion picture “December Heat.” To
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