Jazz Articles about Ingrid Hagel

Ingrid Hagel: Tharapita

by Budd Kopman
August 22, 2014

Tharapita is a delightful recording that ultimately beguiles the listener through its emotional outlook and sheer gorgeous sound. Ingrid Hagel hails from Estonia and, as she states on her site, “Tharapita" is the name of a thirteenth-century northern Estonian tribal god, which has been incorporated into the culture to “evoke the unity between man and nature." Living now in Copenhagen, Denmark with its hustle and bustle, the music is Hagel's attempt “to recreate the sensations, colours and landscapes ...