The sax player Villu Veski and the accordionist Tiit Kalluste are both men quite well-versed in matters jazzy, folksy and improvisational. Curiosly enough, it was only a few years ago when they jointly discovered the singular grace and racified melancholy of the music of the North.

After a number of duo concerts the tightly bonded tandem "stumbled" into the music of Faroe Islands, and - kaboom! love at first sight! This grew into an on-going passion and resulted in a yet deeper absorption of the music of the rest of region. At the end of 1998, "Sounds of the Nordic Islands" appeared, a fair and graceful album that injected a fair dose of fresh inspiration into both musicians.

By today, Veski Kalluste Duo has completed Sounds of the Nordic Islands II as a sequel to their first concert programme. In addition to music's thoughtful/philosophic expressivity springing from duo's first compositions,
several sounds and rhythms have been added maintaining an invisible link between both roots and modern times and representing a key to the musical language of Sounds of the Nordic Islands. Live electronics, ethnic percussion and double bass appear as addition to saxophone and ccordion.