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Estonian Music Now – Exploratory Music From Estonia
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Taavi Kerikmäe / Mart Soo
Taavo Remmel
Free Tallinn Trio
[Estonia] [Rare UK Performances]
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Official launch of the CD “Estonian Music Now 2011 – Exploratory Music From Estonia”, distributed worldwide with The Wire magazine November issue, with live music by some of the leading experimental music figures in Estonia.
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Taavi Kerikmäe / Mart Soo
Taavi Kerikmäe and Mart Soo are long time ensemble partners. They are among the leading experimental music figures in Estonia. The duo’s first album “Taavi Kerikmäe/Mart Soo + 1” (with Chris Cutler, Isabelle Duthoit, Xavier Charles and Jean-Marc Montera; MKDK Records, 2007) was nominated for Best Jazz Album of the Year by Estonian Association of Phonogram Producers. The album was also “Album of the week” by “Eesti Ekspress”, the largest weekly magazine in Estonia. Since 2005, Kerikmäe and Soo have been organizing festivals and concerts series called Improtest.
Taavi Kerikmäe: theremin, various keyboards, piano, different live electronics and custom made electronic instruments
- worked with Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, Vinko Globokar, Gilbert Amy, Alessandro Solbiatti, Thierry LeMey, Louis Andriessen, and many others;
- played with Michel Doneda, Chris Cutler, Jean-Marc Montera, Uchihashi Kazuhiza, Paul Lovens, European Improvisers Orchestra and many others;
- “Electronic Artist of the Year 2008” from the Estonian Association of the Phonogram Producers for his work “Death Has a Meaning for Us” with Broken Time Orchestra.
Mart Soo: guitar & live electronics
- played with Weekend Guitar Trio, Samm Bennett, Lisa Karrer & David Simons, Vladimir Tarasov Baltic Art Orchestra, Ensemble Uncontrolled, Brian Melvin, Chris Cutler, Jean Marc Montera, Paul Lovens, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Markus Reuter, Fred Frith, Jan Bang, Toyax Wilcox and many others.
Taavo Remmel
Taavo Remmel: double bass
- played with the Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, Hortus Musicus, Ray Anderson, Will Calhoun, Julian Joseph, Chip Crawford, Brian Melvin, Eve Cornelius, Tatevik Hovanesjan, Hedvig Hanson and many others;
- you can hear Taavo Remmel`s bass lines on more than 30 CDs;
- he is also one of the producers for Hedvig Hanson first international label cd “What Colour is Love” (EmArcy/Universal).
Free Tallinn Trio
Anne-Liis Poll: voice
Anto Pett: piano and prepared piano
Jaak Sooäär: guitar and live-electronics
Free Tallinn Trio is a unique combination of a singer with unusually wide voice range (Anne-Liis Poll), a classically trained piano virtuoso (Anto Pett), who has been concentrated on free improvisation during last 20 years, and a jazz guitarist (Jaak Sooäär), who is one of the most well-known jazz musicians of the Baltics. The freely improvised music of Free Tallinn Trio could be described as contemporary impro chamber opera, but the main influences are simultaneously contemporary music and modern jazz improvisation. The different backgrounds of its members lead the trio to unexpected adventurous territories and help to avoid typical cliches of free improvisation.
“Poll was a superbly accomplished vocalist and the trio produced an integrated, rounded performance. She wove her detailed onomatopoeia into textures created by piano and guitar, contrasted by staccato passages and whispers that came haloed in Sooäär’s electronics. It was one of those fascinating, hypnotic performances that seemed to make time stand still.” (Stuart Nicholson about concert at Moers Festival in 2008, www.jazz.com)
“A splendid surprise! A group from Estonia, here making its first appearance on Leo Records. This is a free improvisation trio consisting of singer Anne-Liis Poll, pianist Anto Pett, and electric guitarist Jaak Sooäär. Free Tallinn Trio approaches free improvisation from a lyrical side: Poll possesses a strong opera singer’s voice and she can toy with recognizable lyricism and extends techniques. She makes me think of Lauren Newton and Viviane Houle, although her approach his less theatrical than the first one and less deconstructed than the second. The two instrumentalists also play on the dichotomy between classical and contemporary, although they never force the point. An excellent free improvisation CD, loaded with brilliant interactions and clearly displaying the trio’s enjoyment at performing in front of a German audience (outdoors, at the Moers festival). Recommended.” (monsieurdelire.com)
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