Bio

Roomet Jakapi is an avant-garde vocalist and free improviser based in Estonia. He has performed with many great free-improv musicians including Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta, Kris Kuldkepp, Guilherme Rodrigues, Emilio Gordoa, Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, Tom Blancarte, Chris Pitsiokos, Fred Frith, Jerzy Mazzoll, Sławek Janicki, Girilal Baars, Roman Stolyar, Dario Fariello, Elo Masing, Teemu Mustonen, Taavi Kerikmäe, Mart Soo, Niels Præstholm, Leonora Palu, Indrek Palu, Theodore Parker, Ivi Rausi, Laura Põldvere, Oleksii Lupashko, Jukka Kääriäinen, Jonas Van den Bossche, and Ilia Belorukov. He has played at various festivals and venues in the Baltic and Nordic countries, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Russia, and the UK.

The UK magazine Jazzwise has called him a "highly alternative Bobby McFerrin being."

Roomet is a member of the experimental bands Punkt Nihu, Rooluulend, Kreatiivmootor, and Impromachine4000. He has collaborated and recorded with musicians and groups from very different genres, for example, Gintas K (experimental electronics), Phlox (jazz rock), and EDASI (black noise). He has worked with composers such as Age Veeroos, Andrus Kallastu and Ville Vokkolainen, and contemporary music groups such as Ensemble U: and Repoo Ensemble.

As a solo artist and collaborator, he has released music on the labels Art First Records (Finland), Powdered Hearts (USA), Improtest Records (Estonia), and Shorty Music V Poiskah DoDo & Friends (Ukraine).

He has collaborated with poets such as Jaan *Luulur* Malin, Hasso Krull, fs, Piret Põldver and J.P. Sipilä, visual artists such as Liina Siib, Mihkel Kleis, Eva Labotkin, Tanel Rander and Maarja Nurk, and dancers such as Kaspar Aus, Indrek Kornel, Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak. He is one of the main characters in the documentary "Impromptu" directed by Priit Pääsuke and Mart Taniel (Luxfilm 2015). He also appears in the feature film "Sandra Gets A Job" directed by Kaupo Kruusiauk (Kopli Kinokompanii 2021).

Roomet is the author or co-author of four books on topics ranging from philosophy to bureaucracy.

He is an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Tartu.

Contact: roomet.jakapi@gmail.com