Videos

Zebra Island releases their debut album Saturnine (video)

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 helps Estonia to punch above its weight again (video)

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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FT visits Estonia to find out about its digital leap (video)

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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Ericsson releases film about e-Estonia (full film)

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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Flowscape navigating robot fish created at the Tallinn University of Technology (video)

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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Arvo Pärt tops list as the most performed living composer (video)

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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Arvo Pärt’s Adam’s Lament chosen as “Recording of The Month” by BBC and receiving favourable reviews (Video)

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

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