SADU (Estonia)
Updated: Jul 31
SADU is an Estonian band built around the voice sof Sandra Sillamaa and Sofia-Liis Liiv, who blend folk, pop, and world music into a sound that draws on traditional instruments alongside contemporary production. Sillamaa, who plays bagpipes, whistles, and jaw harp in addition to singing, spent eleven years touring across 38 countries with the Estonian folk-rock-pop trio Trad.Attack! before founding SADU. Liiv is a violinist and vocalist who has collaborated with a number of Estonian musicians. Together with songwriter-producer Frederik Küüts on guitar and Robert Leht on drums, the band released their debut album Probleemid Paradiisis (Problems in Paradise) in 2025, which went on to win Debut Album of the Year, Band of the Year, and Album of the Year at the 2026 Estonian Music Awards.
Featured Songs:
“See Pole See” (That’s Not It) is a sharp, rhythmically propulsive track from Probleemid Paradiisis in which the Sillamaa and Liiv deliver a clear-eyed rejection of a relationship built on social performance and grand gestures. The song plays the appeal of domestic couple hood, the shared apartment, the Sunday photos, the public declarations, against their own more grounded desires, landing its punchline with characteristic Estonian directness: “It’s a nice idea / But that’s not it / You are definitely not the one.”
Their Acoustic Journey track, “Igavuse teisel pool” (The Other Side of Boredom), was written by Frederik Küüts and frames modern restlessness and doomscrolling as a kind of existential angst, questioning where it will all lead. “What is on the other side of boredom? / What happens when the flow is gone? / In the glow of the screen I / Scroll the news until I fall asleep / Just like voices in my head / That someone would quiet.”
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