MIISUFY (2024) / UUE AJASTU GURU (2022) / LEEK (2022) / IMPERAATOR (2020) / END GAME REMIXES (2019) / END GAME (2018)
MIISUFY
8 tracks, 16’30”
Audio Cassette (Trash Can Dance)
digital (self-released)
Original Soundtrack for animated short “Miisufy”
Film producer & screeenwriter – Aurelia Aasa
Director Liisi Grünberg
Music producer and instrumentalist – Aigar Vals
(keyboards, guitar, drums and percussions)
Sound design – Martin Kikas & Aigar Vals
Sound engineer – Martin Kikas, Ö Stuudio
Cover illustration – Liisi Grünberg (scene from “Miisufy”)
Recorded at Aigar’s home studios in Ahja and Tallinn, except for drums in Ö Stuudio
Thank you – AAA Creative, Aurelia Aasa, Liisi Grünberg, Ingmar Järve, Maria Ehrenberg
- Premiered on 16th September 2023 at Helsinki IFF
- Sundance Film Festival 2024 Official Selection
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 Competition Programme
- AFI Fest 2023 (American Film Institute) – Special Jury mention
released digitally January 15, 2024
CS released October 13, 2024
UUE AJASTU GURU
11 tracks, 42’00”
CD (self-released)
digital (self-released)
Vocals, lyrics – Aigar Vals
Producer and instrumentalist – Aigar Vals
(keyboards, guitar, kantele, drums and percussions)
Studio musicians – Argo Vals on guitar (tracks I, II, III and VIII). Martin Kikas on guitar (track VI)
Recorded at Aigar’s home studios in Ahja and Tallinn, except for drums in Ö Studio and Argo’s guitars in Tallinn.
Sound engineer – Martin Kikas, Ö Stuudio
Cover photos – Maris Tomba
Art director and Graphic designer – Ingmar Järve
Byst – Jass Kaselaan
Necklace – Merle Kasonen
Thank you – Kultuurkapitali helikunsti sihtkapital, Eesti Autorite Ühing, Tartu Luterlik Peetri kool, SÜNK, Roland Seer, Siim Parisoo, Karl Petti
- Raadio 2 – Album of the Week (w 7, 2023)
released November 11, 2022
LEEK
1 track, 3’38”
digital (self-released)
Vocals, lyrics – Aigar Vals
Producer and instrumentalist – Aigar Vals
(keyboards, guitar, drums)
Recorded at Aigar’s home studio in Ahja, except for drums at Ö Stuudio
Sound engineer – Martin Kikas, Ö Stuudio
Visuals – Aigar Vals ja Siim Parisoo (DEW8)
released January 17, 2022
IMPERAATOR
13 tracks, 32’18”
CD (self-released)
digital (self-released)
Lyrics and vocals by Aigar Vals
Written and all instruments played by Aigar Vals,
except for guitars by Argo Vals on tracks 8 and 11
Recorded at Aigar’s home studios, except for drums at Ö Stuudio
Mixed and mastered at Ö Stuudio by Martin Kikas
Photos by Maris Tomba, byst by Jass Kaselaan
Designed by Aigar Vals
- Eesti Ekspress Areen – Album of the Week (w 44, 2020)
released September 17, 2020
END GAME REMIXES
2 tracks, 8’48”
digital (self-released)
Remixes of End Game:
- Galaktlan “Sooner”
- Alex Wulf “Spirals Downwards”
Mastered by Martin Kikas at Ö Stuudio
galaktlan.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/alexwulf
released March 28, 2019
END GAME
8 tracks, 28’46”
CS (Trash Can Dance)
digital (self-released)
All songs written and all instruments played by Aigar Vals
Recorded at Aigar’s home studios, except for drums at Ö Stuudio
Mixed and mastered by Martin Kikas (Ö Stuudio)
Bust by Jass Kaselaan and photos by Maris Tomba
Concept and design by Aigar
Recorded during a year in Austria and Estonia, 2017–2018
released September 17, 2018