Fringe-concert: Tobias Tammearu Trio & Argo Vals European Jazz Conference 2021
Thursday 16. September 22:30
15.-
Fotografiska Tallinn
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The music of Tobias Tammearu Trio can be sometimes described as spacious and immersive, sometimes as rebellious and confusing. The main focus is being shifted from music to musicians; Tobias will be joined on stage by Robert Rebane on bass guitar and Martin Petermann on drums. There’s only one rule: Don’t expect anything, and let the music guide you.
In 2020 the trio released their debut album Bivium which has gained a lot of positive feedback from the local audience and press. According to Vootele Ruusmaa from Müürileht, “Tobias Tammearu Trio experiments well with noise and silence. Given their youth, their approach to rhythm, melodies and blurred soundscapes makes their sound extremely unique.”
Tobias Tammearu is a prominent saxophonist of the younger generation who has studied at the Heino Eller Music School in Tartu and Georg Ots Music School in Tallinn as well as Amsterdam Conservatory. He is active in various ensembles including the New Wind Jazz Orchestra and Gather Around by Ramuel Tafenau, as well as Twisted Heads by Jake Victor (USA/BEL/SPA/EST) with whom he won the 2018 DownBeat Magazine Award.
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Argo Vals is an Estonian composer, guitarist and live electronics artist. His music is characterised by airiness, intensity, tension and release, electronic grooves and constant searches. He has written music for various ensembles, films, TV shows and dance performances, given solo concerts at numerous music festivals and toured in Europe and Russia. Vals has released three full-length studio albums: In Loving Memory Of (2020), Nokturn (2015) and Tsihcier (2012).
At the concert Argo Vals (guitar and live electronics) will join forces with the freelance lighting artist Oliver Kulpsoo, who has built a specific, minimalist and playful lighting solution for the occasion, controlled in real time. The two artists have been giving concerts together since 2017 and have preciously performed at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, the Bankito Festival in Hungary and the Baltic Breeze Festival in Munich.
Since his graduation from the department of Theatre Technical Arts at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Oliver Kulpsoo has done light design for numerous theatre, dance and music productions as well as operas. He worked at the Von Krahl Theatre in Tallinn for nine years and was the laureate Production Preparation Worker Award by the Estonian Theatre Union in 2016. Recently he has been more focused on light installations.