We’re Listening with EMW: Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz

VINCENT TEETSOV

From South to North in Estonia, the music scene on a national level has proven to be an active place for expression across genre boundaries.

These are the kind of boundaries that nowadays might inhibit full-on recording sessions in another style: if you’re a folk musician, to communicate your identity clearly, you can’t publicly dip into jazz or hip hop. Or so they say.

One musician who has subverted this arrangement is Tõnu Tubli. I distinctly recall hearing his solo drumming during Trad. Attack’s sound check at Tartu College years ago. Sandra and Jalmar were rigorously preparing in their green room; scaling through torupill (bagpipe) lines, strumming chords on the twelve-string guitar, between managing the band’s social media channels.

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Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz.

Photo: Madis Reimund