Now you’re Tallinn

We love ‘the sound of Nordic minimalism’ and you all do too – our Scandi Noir sample packs from last year were our most popular downloads ever. As good as those were though, Orchestral Tools are aiming higher with theirs: Tallinn—Baltic voices and strings.

OT usually record in the famous and fabulous Teldex Studio in Berlin, but this time they upped sticks and recorders and headed to Tallinn to record both the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallin Chamber Orchestra for the aforementioned vocals and strings.

“The results are quite breathtaking,” say OT, “the soft, slightly icy strings blend with the warmth and precision of the voices, and the organs are so realistic you can almost feel the air from the pipes. Everything comes together to form a perfect, atmospheric whole.”

It sounds amazing and we can already visualise two shady Nordic cops making a hideous discovery – maybe under some ice or something – to the strains of these atmospheric sounds. (Our own local Bathbased murder mystery TV show is called

McDonald and Dodds, a kind of panto meets Midsomer Murders to which the only suitable soundtrack would be played by a trombone or whoopee cushion).

Tallinn—Baltic voices and strings is €299. Review next issue.

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