Living this miserable virtual life of isolation and inactivity can drag you down without friends, who keep you informed of what is taking place elsewhere. Such as the wonderful people at Estonian Music Week here in the Big Smoke. Hard to believe that it is only a little more than two years since that wonderful blast of live music straight from Estonia. Now, alas, have to live with YouTube and other options that mask, pardon the bad pun, the fact that to attend a live concert with all the accompanying energy may be a long time coming.
The EMW people sent an email – sure glad that they are keeping esto music lovers up to date -at the beginning of the last month focussing on Tallinn Music Week, and since then the slender one has been greatly enjoying listening to a featured artist. Who is the tongue-in-cheek named Anna Kaneelina. Not only an obvious spoof of the Leo Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina (which translated into Estonian means give [me a] coarse or rough nose.) Kaneelina plays with cinnamon – kaneel –