The music of Uusi Aika has echoes of folk music, Japanese aesthetics, early 20th century art music and jazz traditions. The band's organic music flows with unhurried pace. Soundwise the the core of Uusi Aika consist of mysterious sonorities and strong melodies, not forgetting free improvisation. The band's music could be described as introspective and meditative, but that's only a part of the story. The instrumentation is mostly acoustic and their sound organic to the bone, but the music's slowly unfolding character brings to mind some deep abstract electronic music or experimental dub explorations at times. That is, there's power just under the surface, just beautifully out of focus. Among more “conventional” instrumentation the sound palette of Uusi Aika is from time to time flavoured by instruments such as the Indian sitar and the Japanese shakuhachi flute.