Curly Strings: Pidu meis eneses & Rahu meis eneses

Curly Strings: Pidu meis eneses & Rahu meis eneses

Time in a Bubble Listening Post 336. Art often consists of freezing moments and reassembling them in words, music, digital images or on canvas, and frozen reality is something we’ve all experienced over the past two years. The Estonian band Curly Strings took full...
Mari Kalkun: Ilmamõtsan

Mari Kalkun: Ilmamõtsan

Into the Woods Listening Post 181. One of Europe’s smallest nations, Estonia is also among the most heavily forested. “The woods are a sacred place for many of us,” observes folksinger-songwriter Mari Kalkun. “Many Estonians have a spiritual connection to the trees,...
Curly Strings: Hoolima

Curly Strings: Hoolima

Bluegrass on the Baltic Listening Post 154. All societies revere music, but surely Estonia ranks first among equals when it comes to the power of song. The 1987-91 Singing Revolution, involving mass-scale performances of patriotic anthems, was a pivotal step in ending...