DUO RUUT: Tallinn TMW25 Interview

Our executive director, Darek Mazzone, met with Duo Ruut—two extraordinary Estonian musicians whose work feels like a living thread between tradition and experimentation. They sat down in a vegan café tucked inside Telliskivi Creative City, a repurposed industrial district that now pulses with the creative energy of Tallinn’s new generation. @duoruut builds their music around a shared zither—a single instrument they play together, seated face-to-face, creating intricate harmonies with voice and hand. Rooted in Estonian folk tradition, their sound is minimalist but emotionally expansive. It’s the kind of music that doesn’t just reflect history—it reinterprets it with sensitivity and invention. They spoke about Estonia’s layered past, its cultural resilience, and the way music, particularly communal singing, has been a force of identity and survival in Estonia. Their practice, intimate and meditative, feels like a continuation of that story. At SAMA, we seek out artists like Duo Ruut—those who carry the sacred and the contemporary in equal measure. 🖥 Visit us online: https://www.samamusicarts.org 💬 Did you enjoy this video? Let us know in the comments below. ✅ Subscribe to SAMA: Music & Art here:    / @samaseattle   --------------- ☑️ Credits: Follow SAMA below: ⇢ Instagram:   / samaseattle   ⇢ Facebook:   / samasacred   ⇢ Website: https://www.samamusicarts.org ⇢ Tiktok: @samaseattle --------------- Welcome to the official YouTube Channel of SAMA: Music & Art – An immersive Series of Music & Art Performances focused on the Healing Power of Global Sacred Music 🎼 Mission: SAMA cultivates a hub for global roots music in the Pacific Northwest, fostering empathy across cultures through transformative music and arts experiences. Vision: A polyphonic world, a world where many worlds fit. About Us: SAMA emerged as a response to the fragmentation and polarization in today’s societies. In a world beset by wars, authoritarianism, ecological degradation, and climate change-induced displacements, our need for relationship skills has never been greater. Despite being globally connected, we often fail to truly listen to each other. Music has the power to bridge these divides, engaging the right hemisphere of the brain, which governs experience, emotion, and relationships. At SAMA, we celebrate music's inherent ability to connect us to our shared humanity and ancestral roots. We focus on live performances to tap into the communal and social aspects of music, creating relationships among musicians, audiences, and the music itself. By experiencing music together, people from diverse cultural backgrounds can develop a greater awareness and appreciation of different ways of being within our shared humanity. SAMA envisions a world where this awareness, rooted in empathetic social experiences, nurtures a polyphonic world — a world where many worlds fit. --------------- 📲 Follow SAMA: Music + Art on social media: Instagram ▶️   / samaseattle   Facebook ▶️   / samasacred   Tiktok ▶️ @samaseattle --------------- #SAMA #MusicAndArt #SeattleSacredMusicArt