Maria Faust, the 38 year old Estonian composer, saxophonist, bandleader, and resident of Denmark, has already made remarkable musical waves that have sent her and her band on trips to concert halls and music festivals around the world.
Maria neither plays or composes in traditional ways and has no interest in doing so. Heavily inspired by the area around the Russian-Estonian border, she collected work songs, hymns and lullabies and merged the material with classical and free improvisation for her award-winning work Sacrum Facere and worked with Danish singer-composer Kira Skov on their collaborative, spiritually-oriented masterpiece 'In The Beginning', recorded in an abandoned Russian Orthodox Church with a large band and Estonian choir but no electricity or running water.
'Machina' consists of an unprecedented mix of traditional musical forms paired with improvisation, jazz and soundscapes, a chamber music universe without drums, but with horns, two basses, cello and piano, all in a fascinating interaction with the engines of fishing boats sputtering their way through the fog, the creaks of old rusty hulls, the hum of the breeze and the call of the birds out at sea.

Additional Details

Label: Stunt Records

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 01/01/10

UPC: 663993180311