President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves will hold a signing session in Tallinn Music Week (TMW) summer house on the main street of Positivus on Sunday, July 17th at 7:30 PM. The anthology album “Teenage Wasteland – Favourites 1963-1978” compiled by President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves was released on vinyl in the beginning of July. The vinyl compilation will be available in TMW summer house from 15th to 17th July.

President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves is known to be a passionate music fan with a wikipediac knowledge of pop culture whom the delegates of TMW conference have heard quoting PJ Harvey and Jello Biafra and reminiscing about his days at CBGBs in New York. As a seasoned festival-goer in constant search of new sounds, he has visited Positivus also in 2013 to check out British indie rockers Palma Violets and will look forward to their fellow countrymen Wolf Alice’s performance this year.

According to President Ilves, the songs in the “Teenage Wasteland” compilation have all shaped his later tastes in music, from new wave to punk, grunge down to today’s brit-rockers and the ruler of Estonian indie, Vaiko Eplik. “These were the songs I listened to at night with a small 12 transistor radio when I was growing up, which provided much needed redemption for life in what The Who called a Teenage Wasteland. Funny to say now, turning 62, but back then my life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll,” he admitted. “All the pieces present in my collection were first released on vinyl and were a part of my teenage record collection. Now I can proudly place my very own vinyl next to theirs,” added President Ilves.

The compilation includes 16 songs that influenced the President when he was growing up in the United States of America. There are gems from Motown’s prime and 60s teenage symphonies, trippy blues and quirky artrock, proto-punk and glamrock, observational tales and rabble-rousing anthems.

Both the vinyl edition and the original CD version of the collection were released by Universal Music Baltics. The vinyl record was produced at the Estonian Vinyl Plant enterprise. The two-man company was only launched this year and is the first Estonia-based vinyl plant that relies on committed amateurs.
A donation of 3,200 euros was collected for the My Dream Day charity* from the sales of the album’s CD version, released last December. Apart from Tallinn the CD compilation was also unveiled in Riga and Helsinki, the funds collected for the charity from foreign sales will be known later in July.President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves will hold a signing session in Tallinn Music Week (TMW) summer house on the main street of Positivus on Sunday, July 17th at 7:30 PM. The anthology album “Teenage Wasteland – Favourites 1963-1978” compiled by President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves was released on vinyl in the beginning of July. The vinyl compilation will be available in TMW summer house from 15th to 17th July.

President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves is known to be a passionate music fan with a wikipediac knowledge of pop culture whom the delegates of TMW conference have heard quoting PJ Harvey and Jello Biafra and reminiscing about his days at CBGBs in New York. As a seasoned festival-goer in constant search of new sounds, he has visited Positivus also in 2013 to check out British indie rockers Palma Violets and will look forward to their fellow countrymen Wolf Alice’s performance this year.

According to President Ilves, the songs in the “Teenage Wasteland” compilation have all shaped his later tastes in music, from new wave to punk, grunge down to today’s brit-rockers and the ruler of Estonian indie, Vaiko Eplik. “These were the songs I listened to at night with a small 12 transistor radio when I was growing up, which provided much needed redemption for life in what The Who called a Teenage Wasteland. Funny to say now, turning 62, but back then my life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll,” he admitted. “All the pieces present in my collection were first released on vinyl and were a part of my teenage record collection. Now I can proudly place my very own vinyl next to theirs,” added President Ilves.

The compilation includes 16 songs that influenced the President when he was growing up in the United States of America. There are gems from Motown’s prime and 60s teenage symphonies, trippy blues and quirky artrock, proto-punk and glamrock, observational tales and rabble-rousing anthems.

Both the vinyl edition and the original CD version of the collection were released by Universal Music Baltics. The vinyl record was produced at the Estonian Vinyl Plant enterprise. The two-man company was only launched this year and is the first Estonia-based vinyl plant that relies on committed amateurs.
A donation of 3,200 euros was collected for the My Dream Day charity* from the sales of the album’s CD version, released last December. Apart from Tallinn the CD compilation was also unveiled in Riga and Helsinki, the funds collected for the charity from foreign sales will be known later in July.