The Estonian experimental musician Maarja Nuut, who I posted about when she released folky album World Inverted in 2020, clearly found the pandemic times very inspiring: after another album last year, she's back with a new one called Hinged.
The release revolves around the notion of generations and how many things, including physical belongings, are passed over time from the older to the younger ones. On her Bandcamp page, the artist describes her stay in her grandmother's farm that resulted in such a theme for thoughts and later for the album. The material came from sessions Nuut spent on "wiring modulars, experimenting with [her] voice, and strumming old vermona organ" and the results are very experimental, form-free, opened for anything. While the music experimentation leaves me confused more times than not, I really enjoy how the artist try new things with her voice, which results in mesmerizing and airy passages like in A Feast for instance.
And again, she's not alone. This time, Nuut joins forces with Nicolas Stocker, a Swiss jazzy artist who is very keen on free improvisation music - and although he is responsible only for drums in some of the songs here, you could say that it might have influenced the overall very experimental ambiance of the album.
Hinged costs 8 EUR.
Check: A Feast
Country: Estonia
Genre: experimental electronica
