Grainy Records

08/04/2024

Mauno Meesit gave interview to Sky.ee🖋
and talked about collaborating with Karin Rask

Kitarrist ja helilooja Mauno Meesit ja näitlejanna Karin Rask esitasid koos loo "Palun mine" möödunud suvel toimunud kontserdil, millest on nüüd avaldatud kontsertvideo. See lugu, millele Rask lisas hääle Martin Alguse kirjutatud sõnadega, on pärit populaarsest telesarjast "Varjudemaa". Sel...

02/04/2024

Mauno Meesit - ‘Palun mine’ video out now!
w/ Karin Rask, Tiit Kikas, Jaagup Tormis

Live at Padise monastery and manor park in Estonia , July 27, 2023Mauno Meesit - music, guitarTiit Kikas - violinJaagup Tormis - drumsKarin Rask - spoken wor...

23/08/2023

TOMORROW in Tallinn: V4R1 together with Estonian National Symphony Orchestra ERSO.

Tickets: https://piletikeskus.ee/et/g9nl0z

03/08/2023

Interview with Sander Saarmets / V4R1 at Estonian newspaper.
Tomorrow 22:00, he will perform his piece "Nature as Signals" at Fotografiska Tallinn.

Eelmise sajandi keskpaigas mõtles üks Prantsuse kirjanik, et võiks kirjutada romaani, mis kirjeldab taime kasvamist reaalajas. See ei teostunud. Helilooja Sander Saarmets võtab midagi sarnast ette helidega.

25/07/2023

Mauno Meesit summer concerts.
Two concerts at Padise already this week!

28/07/2022

New Viktor's Joy music video for 'I will hug him good night'

Order 'Dog Walker' LP and Ltd CD on grainyrecords.com

Every summer, during the 90's, we'd be out on the field. I'd watch him sharpen the scythe. Till this day I spit on the whetstone the way he used to. I learne...

09/06/2022

Something special by Viktor's Joy: “Nothing expresses love more than 40 year old rolls of film developed in a bucket of compost. These reels were kept in a fridge for over a decade in hopes that one day an alchemist will perform the impossible... All it took was a few rotten vegetables.”
https://youtu.be/DAiAOVgfw6c

Nothing expresses love more than 40 year old rolls of film developed in a bucket of compost. These reels were kept in a fridge for over a decade in hopes tha...

13/05/2022

New music video by Viktor's Joy!

That summer was particularly dry . The city council asked its people to water the wilting trees.The parks - hot dust bowls of withered grass and stale air. E...

04/03/2022

Today 18:00 / interactive online installation 'Forget' by Jan Kaus and Sander Saarmets (V4R1) at eˉlektron's studio, Kopli 27. Today we meet in the studio and online. To come together and help Ukrainians in need.
All the ticket revenue of the event goes straight to our Ukrainian friends currently helping the refugees at the Polish-Ukrainian border. Every euro counts!
Tickets: https://fienta.com/forget

Fri 4. March at 18:00 - 23:00 EET

17/02/2022

Viktor's Joy aka Kaarel Malken started a series of posts to reveal background stories of the songs from his new album “Dog Walker”.
Some photographs and the lyric sheet to accompany “Corner Store Angel” https://viktorsjoy.bandcamp.com/track/corner-store-angel

“His store had a donation box from which people like me could get a sweater or a pair of jeans - among many other things. This was years ago, when money was scarce and dumpster diving still possible. He was always there, in his little hide-out of a shop, arranging and rearranging the overburdened shelves, telling people to remove their backpacks and keep their hands in their pockets.
He would never hesitate to ask for help. All those unsuspecting kids searching for a cheap winter coat, leaving hours later after mopping his floors and getting his groceries. I, myself a kid back then, wasn't spared from his charm. Stuff rotting, outside, in makeshift metal strongboxes - to which he held the key. The more rotten the cheaper it was. Just a little bit of soap - he used to say.
And he was right.
Since the gentrification of the neighborhood he and I have both moved on.”

Keep an eye on Viktor's Joy page to see stories about the next songs.
“Dog Walker” album LP is available on: www.grainyrecords.co

04/02/2022

Viktor's Joy releases new music video, filmed by Kaarel himself:
https://youtu.be/r9gQj659eoA
"Dog Walker" LP and CD are available on www.grainyrecords.com

Song from recently released "Dog Walker" album by Viktor's Joy .Written and recorded by Kaarel Malken. Mastered by Sander Saarmets.Published by Mauno Meesit/...

12/01/2022

Thank you Eesti Pops show and Janek Murd for playing Viktor's Joy on Raadio 2! Listen to the beautifully curated show on:
https://r2.err.ee/1608449255/eesti-pops-janek-murd

Tänane trippiv tunnike kodumaiste helide seltsis sobib hästi ka mediteerimiseks. Kavas uusi kollektiive ja värsket repertuaari juba tuntud tegijatelt.
Sea end matile kl 21 R2s

08/01/2022

I've seen snow. Empty shopfronts and boarded windows. Queues for food, kashmir and cough syrup. Cutlets and cakes. I've heard the bird song of spring in the dead of december night. Love, loss - friends and family. I've been to the beginning whence I hope to find the end. I've been home.
Thank you Mauno Meesit, Anne Meesit, Sander Saarmets, Elvira Akzigitova, Megg Rose, Oberst Panizza and the rest of you!

I'm back now and will start mailing out the CD's and Vinyls starting Monday.

Happy new year!

17/12/2021

HAPPY RELEASE DAY Viktor's Joy! :)
'Dog Walker' album is out now!
180g vinyl and the last copies of Ltd CD is available on grainyrecords.com
Spotify link:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Jg080TnMSWaUGAVq01QGD?si=lKabtl3hT4mE4U8wdw1EHg

14/12/2021

Before the new Viktor's Joy album release this Friday, let's look back at his 2017 debut album 'I Used to Be Clean'. The album that Kaarel recorded in his bedroom in Berlin was voted as 6th best Estonian album in the annual list compiled by ERR kultuuriportaal. In one of the reviews, Viktor's Joy was called "the uncrowned king of sad music".
We still have last copies of “I Used to Be Clean” CD-s in our web store, where you can also order the new 'Dog Walker' album: www.grainyrecords.com

Black Dog is taken from Viktor's Joy - 'I Used To Be Clean ' album, out on Grainy Records. Order CD on: www.grainyrecords.comViktor's Joy is a Berlin based t...

13/12/2021

Viktor's Joy was interviewed by Estonian Raadio 2 Metamericana show, where you can hear one more new song, before the ‘Dog Walker’ album release this friday.
Listen to the show on: https://r2.err.ee/1608418742/metamericana-jan-berkovitch
Album preorder: www.grainyrecords.com

Americana ei ole pitsa, veel vähem on see kohv.

10/12/2021

We are happy to share the first single from new Viktor's Joy album 'Dog Walker'!
Album LP / Ltd CD preorder on: www.grainyrecords.com

Beautiful Burgundy is taken from Viktor's Joy - ‘Dog Walker ' album, out on Grainy Records. Order LP or Ltd CD on : https://www.grainyrecords.com

06/12/2021

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26/11/2021

Tomorrow evening Sander Saarmets from V4R1 can be seen performing together with Folded Visuals at the Loodus kui maagia / Nature as Magic mini-festival hosted by elektron.art.
View it online at:
https://elektron.art

19/10/2021

Mauno Meesit releases new live video from Night Concert in Estonian forest where he performed a new piece 'Storms' https://youtu.be/7NjdSzdh3dI

In the end of summer I played a night concert in the middle of an Estonian forest in Nõmbra where I performed my new piece ‘Tormid / Storms’ for the first ti...

14/10/2021

The Quietus is writing about Sander Saarmets (V4R1):
"Estonian electronic wizard, Sander Saarmets, plays cuts from his new record. A brilliant exponent of glitchy electronica, Saarmets is a professorial type who has a very precise way of switching cables and turning the dials of his instruments..."

Thank you Richard Foster & The Quietus & Tallinn Music Week! https://thequietus.com/articles/30654-tallin-music-week-2021-review?fbclid=IwAR0PWgy3zSAmcYTDeLEGe-jVlnthYv6Q377fK8ALeidgBDgEBBdwYUM6KG4

Richard Foster encounters the new and the unusual at Tallin Music Week,

22/09/2021

Sander Saarmets (V4R1) at Athens Digital Arts Festival!
His interactive web piece KIPATAUW can be seen at the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival online edition | 20.09-31.10. |

Find this any many beautiful projects here:
https://online.adaf.gr

Shortcut to KIPATAUW:
https://online.adaf.gr/video/kipatauw
(( headphones recommended ))