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/Lo-fi, Home recording, Spoken word, Psychedelic, Experimental folk, Ambient, Organic electronica, Noise, Experimentalism, New Weird Estonia, Avant-garde, DIY, Anti-folk/
Comment: the artist and sound experimentator Martiini hails from my hometown Tartu, Estonia. His 8-track album is a quite unusual issue in the context of Estonia because of containing weird experiments which used to extend from cagy ambient/electro-acoustic textures to more tumultuous folk and organic electronica tinged coils and noisy psychedelic explorations tapped out on a keyboard or guitar and channelized through filters, effect devices and machines. Indeed, his instrumental (with one exception called Psaiko & Martiini lindistamisest) soundscapes are charmingly lopsided and warped filled formally with cellar aesthetics and anti-music business statements. In addition to it I recommend to seek out such Estonian lo-fi/experimental groups as Tuljak, Kago, Kreatiivmootor, EDASI, NE! (by the way, it was a project where Martiini was involved in previously)
