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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Citizens and entrepreneurs are reaping benefits from Estonia’s 1996 ‘Tiger’s Leap’ technology programme. Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news and information newspaper, visited Estonia to discover why policy makers from around the world are trekking to the tiny Baltic state. I Report by Richard Milne Produced and edited by Helen Barrett, filmed by
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Telecommunication company Ericsson recently released an hour-long, documentary-style film called “Life in a networked society” about e-services in Estonia. “Life in a networked society” looks into Estonia’s e-elections, e-taxes, e-school, e-medicine and other innovative solutions in public services which cut bureaucracy and costs. The film includes conversations with decision-makers such as Minister of Economic Affairs and
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The EU funded European research project, based in Estonia, has built an electronic version of lateral line sensing on an underwater fish robot called FILOSE (Robotic FIsh LOcomotion and SEnsing). All fish have this sensing organ, but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater vehicles. Unlike any other animal, fish have a
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This article is in relation to the recent Estonian-French movie “An Estonian Lady in Paris”, directed by Ilmar Raag. The film tells the story of Anne (Laine Magi), a divorced 50 year-old woman who leaves a small Estonian town to care for an elderly woman in Paris, a free-spirited fellow Estonian who emigrated to France
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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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Estonia is to conduct its first space mission in April 2013. Around 100 students and scientists have contributed to creation of the tiny one-kilogram satellite, which was nearly six years in the making. The satellite, called ESTCube-1, was used as the basis for 40 research projects and three doctoral theses. Mart Noorma, Vice-Dean for Studies
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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
