Its here! Tallinn Music Week Official TV-Clip

Ennusta, kes võidab EESTI LAULU konkursi ja võida pääsmed Tallinn Music Weeki kontsertidele

Tähelepanu, kõik hea Eesti muusika fännid! Täna, 12. märtsi õhtul selgub Nokia kontserdimajas toimuval EESTI LAUL 2010 finaalkontserdil Eestit Eurovisiooni lauluvõistlusele Oslosse esindama sõitev laul.Talllinn Music Week pakub sulle võimalust ennustada konkursi võitjat ning skoorida vaevatasuks kutsed kahele vabalt valitud festivali showcase’ile.

Loosis osalemiseks mine Tallinn Music Weeki Facebooki fännilehele ja postita loositeate juurde oma pakkumist sisaldav kommentaar. Kõigi nende vahel, kes jõudsid enne kella 23:00 õigesti panustada, loosime välja kutse kahele tema poolt valitud Tallinn Music Week showcase'ile.  

Meie kavas on EESTI LAULU finalistidest juba esindatud Mimicry, Groundhog Day, Malcolm Lincoln, Iiris Vesik ja Leegitsev Sidrun, eesotsas Marten Kuningaga. Veel ühel kümnest finalistist on võimalik liituda Tallinn Music Weeki programmiga festivali suurimal live-laval Rock Cafe’s 27. märtsil.

Loe ka: Tallinn Music Week pakub edukatele Eesti Laul 2010 finalistidele hüppelava Euroopasse

Uuri festivali kava SIIT

Tallinn Music Week TV-ad: Making-Of Photos!

Once upon a time a man called Thomas Edison invented a phonograph machine, in which a sound-driven vibrating needle impressed grooves into a cylinder covered with a tinfoil. Some damn cool music was being preserved and transmitted that way. Later on, tinfoil was being used mostly as a wrapping material for foods and drugs. By the year of 2010 some mad scientists from Tolm stuudio, Tallinn put two and two together, took a head boiled in glorious noise and melodies, spiced it up with a sufficient dose of rhytm radiation, coated with delicious charmparticles, tinfoiled and canned it, labelling the product TALLINN MUSIC WEEK.

Limited edition of super sweet TMW music cans in stock from March, 25! Grab the can! Go look for us onTV, on the streets, in clubs, at the airport, inside the Almighty Worldwide - you'll find us everywhere.

The tin and the can and the art in between:

Idea: Joosep Volk, Martin Rääk, Uku-Kristjan Küttis
Director of photography: Joosep Volk
Animator: Martin Rääk, Joosep Volk, Uku-Kristjan Küttis
Cast: Karl-Gustav Kello
Post production, editing, animations: Tolm Stuudio
Location: Kliff & Klaus Stuudio
Sound engineering: Arian Levin

Tallinn Music Week 2010

Tallinn Music Week is a showcase festival and a music industry networking event that started out in 2009, a year that was declared the Year of Innovation in Estonia. Having partnered up with the foundation Tallinn 2011 (Tallinn will be the European Culture Capital in 2011!) and the country’s very own brain child Skype, it is a new and fresh initiative with an aim of integrating the Estonian music industry effectively into the European industry circuit, thus providing a new platform for the country’s best talent to spread further from its country’s borders.

2009 was a fantastic year for Estonian bands and music. The witty Universal-signed singer-songwriter Kerli was nominated for the European Border Beakers Award at EuroSonic, one of her songs picked for the new Tim Burton movie; the Universal-signed Viking metal outfit Metsatöll toured 32 dates in 11 countries of Europe; the guitar-trumpet-duo with mesmerizing soundscapes, UMA got to play at the London Jazz festival, Europe’s most revered jazz event; our MTV darlings Bedwetters toured the Nordic countries, penetrating through to the hearts of some important Swedish radio stations and the Scandinavian MTV in the process; and two exotic world beat acts you’d be surprised to find out to originate from Estonia, Svjata Vatra and Kirtana Rasa, took a Viking boat to EuroSonic this January — just to mention a few successes we had; we’ll be thrilled to tell you more, of course.

This simply means that from now on the last weekend of March will remain to be reserved for Tallinn Music Week in your calendars, and that from now on you will be seeing more and more Estonian bands and professionals at your festivals, conferences, events and parties.

Tallinn Music Week 2010 is excited to announce a festival line-up of 83 bands and musicians that will also include a completely new segment of music this time — at our second-ever festival we are proud to showcase some brilliant contemporary classical music, presented by the Estonian Composers Union. Our hard rock and metal enthusiasts of Nailboard Records and Hard Rock Laager have this time taken an impressive initiative in expanding their showcase into a full three-day festival of its own right — the Tallinn Metal Week, that will take place at the club Tapper. Jazzkaar Festival and the Estonian Jazz Union will share the grand No99 Theatre with Viljandi Traditional Music Centre to stage the promising jazz talent and some exhilarating world music outfits. Rulers of the Deep, the Estonian deep house superstars known far and wide, will present themselves together with some fresh club music talent by Julm Records. The night-time festival hot spot will again be the beloved underground “Mecca”, the Von Krahl Theatre & Bar in the heart of the old town, that will host the Radio2 showcase of witty pop and rock on Friday and the Hea Uus Heli (Good New Sound) festival showcase, full of some gorgeous indie, electronica and shoegaze on Saturday. You will most definitely love it once you end up at Mustpeade Maja (The Lodge House of the Order of the Blackheads) — a mystical basement bar with vaulted ceilings in a 15th century craftsman’s house that will be musically programmed by the concert series Odessa Pop and the Estonian Composers’ Union this time, or at Juuksur bar — a Soviet-time hairdresser’s that is now the indie kids’ favourite getaway just around the corner. Those of you longing for a darker experience with some drone, punk and dark electronica will have a good reason to head towards the RockStars bar. In Tallinn’s biggest live club Rock Café you will find the heart-warming opening party “Humppa tai kuole”(our Finnish friends will get it) and some Latvian superstars on the night to follow.

Beside the fantastic Estonian talent, there are also bands from neighbouring countries present at this year’s event: Finland, Latvia and Lithuania are all represented, thus pointing out Tallinn’s significance as the inevitable geographical link between the Nordic countries, the rest of the Baltics and Eastern Europe — an important stop in the routing of any band travelling from Scandinavia to Russia or mainland Europe. “Estonian talent will always remain the focus of Tallinn Music Week, but we’d love to give our guests and festival-goers a broader overview of the whole neighboring market next to Estonia,” comments Helen Sildna, organizer of Tallinn Music Week.

The Skype’s Go Change the World Award is becoming a tradition, as our partner Skype will continue issuing an award for the most promising Estonian talent of the festival — a financial prize given to the artist judged to have the most international potential. Last year’s award went to the electro-pop band Popidiot, who recently won four awards at the Estonian Music Awards Gala, one of the awards being for their fantastic “Hanging On Friday” video they made with the support of the Skype Award. Check out the video.

Tallinn Music Week 2010 will take place on March 25–27. Our delegates’ registration is open.

Comments from 2009:

Robert Meijerink (EuroSonic): “Tallinn is a beautiful place to take a dive into the Estonian music scene. Great venues and warm atmosphere in beautiful surroundings. Tallinn Music Week has a huge potential to become the ultimate platform and gate to the Estonian and maybe the Baltic music scene.”

Paulina Ahokas (Finnish Music Export): “This event made me realize what an amazing talent pool and enthusiastic atmosphere there are in Estonia, and I am convinced the event will activate local co-operation and ambition even further — and both of these are indeed needed for international work: it is a lot of hard work! Tallinn Music Week’s staff did an amazing job, and I am looking forward to the next edition!”

Vegard Waske (By:Larm/Bureau Storm): “Very good venues and sound-systems, interesting seminars; all-in-all just an exciting and inspiring event. The enthusiasm of the audience and the general quality of the music tells me TMW might be THE place very soon for those who search for new unexplored talent.”

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Tallinn Music Week extends thanks to supporters and partners:

Tallinn2011, Nordic Hotel Forum, Skype, Saku Rock Music, Kultuurkapital (the Cultural Endowment of Estonia), Estonia’s Ministry of Culture, Estonian Air, Vikingline, Eventech, RGB Velvet, Sailinvest – Sea the Future, Raadio2, ETV, Postimees, Rada7.ee

BrainStorm presents their brand new album at Tallinn Music Week

Latvian stadium rock super-stars BrainStorm present their brand new international album “Years & Seconds” at this year’s festival. BrainStorms keyboard player Maris Mihelsons says they are looking forward to the shows in Estonia. “We have always had great shows with spectacular afterparties in Estonia! It will surely be even more fun to play at Tallinn Music Week, when the city is full of musicians and music lovers from all around the world!”

On Friday, 26th of March, BrainStorm will share stage at Tallinn’s biggest rock club Rock Café with "The Newcomer of 2008" and "Eurovision Estonia 2010" finalist Groundhog Day and the latest Latvian indie-sensation Instrumenti – well known already in Eastern Europe, France, Italy and Scandinavia with their “Life Jacket under Your Seat” single.

This year, Tallinn Music Week has opened doors also for artists from neighboring countries. Additionally to BrainStorm and Instrumenti from Latvia, Lithuanian triphop band Fusedmarc will celebrate their recent deal with Playground Records, Finnish electro-duo Jesse will play at Hea Uus Heli showcase in Von Krahl, Odessa Pop programme in Mustpeade Maja includes Finnish indie-electronica band Rubik and Finnish metal legend Amorphis will test the sound limits of the metal club Tapper. Tallinn Music Week will get a kicking start on Thursday, 25th March with legendary Eläkeläiset.

“Estonian talent will always remain the focus of Tallinn Music Week, but we’d love to give our guests and festival goers a broader overview of the whole neighboring market next to Estonia” comments Helen Sildna, organizer of Tallinn Music Week.

BrainStorm esitleb Tallinn Music Weekil uut albumit

Läti poprocki ikoon BrainStorm esitleb festivali raames Rock Cafes oma 15. märtsil ilmuvat rahvusvahelist albumit "Years & Seconds", millele lisaks tuleb ettekandele ka ansambli tuntumad hitid läbi viimase kümnendi.

BrainStormi klahvpilli mängija Maris Mihelsonsi sõnul ootavad nad Eesti kontserte väga. "Meil on Eestis olnud alati vägevad showd ja võimsad järelpeod! Kontsert "Tallinn Music Weeki" raames tõotab tulla aga veelgi lõbusam - on ju sel ajal kogu linn täis muusikuid ja muusikahuvilisi üle kogu maailma..."

BrainStormiga jagavad 26. märtsi õhtul lava ka Eesti Muusikaauhindade galal Eesti avalikkuse teadvusse vuhisenud "läti pandad" ehk ansambel Instrumenti, kelle lugu "Lifejacket is Under Your Seat" on tuntud ka Eesti raadiojaamade kaudu ning "Delfi Noortebänd 2008" võitja ning "Eesti laul 2010" finalist Groundhog Day.

Tallinn Music Week on tänavu avanud oma uksed ka teistele põhja- ning lõunanaabrite artistidele. Lisaks Rock Cafes esinevatele BrainStormile ja Instrumentile astuvad Von Krahlis Hea Uus Heli showcase’il üles äsja Playground Recordsiga lepingu sõlminud Leedu triphop bänd Fusedmarc ja Soome electro-duo Jesse; Mustpeade Majas täiendab Odessa Popi programmi Soome indielektroonika bänd Rubik ning Tapperi klubisse maandub müristama põhjanaabrite metali legend Amorphis.