(maarjanuut.com)Maarja Nuut is a fiddle player and singer from Estonia who uses technology to rework Baltic folk styles to create impressively original,often edgy and unsettling songs and soundscapes. She mostly performs solo, helped by a producer and sound engineer who helps her to construct sound loops of her instrument and voice, and matching repeated phrases against melody lines. It’s not a unusual technique,but the results are often startling. She plays both plucked and bowed fiddle, has a cool, or intimate vocal style,and specialises in songs approximately dreams. A cappella vocal passages are matched against atmospheric, folk-influenced pieces, and a furious,tense song approximately dancing devils that is like a nightmare from some remote Estonian forest. There’s also a rousing improvised duet with another Estonian fiddler, Eeva Talsi, and the atmospheric Kargus,influenced by her collaborations with north African Tuareg musicians.
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Source: theguardian.com