Amiina did a gig in a real living room downtown Reykjavik for about 50 people.
"Hilli"
www.youtube.com/v/TTS2ibIiBAk&hl&fmt=18
"Leather & Lace"
www.youtube.com/v/sqWdRVvCJz4&hl&fmt=18
Amiina's Official Page
Amiina is playing together with Kippi Kaninus & drummer Maggi @ Sódóma venue, Reykjavík on 2. August @ 22:00.
Also playing @ the Irish Kilkenny Arts Festival on 9. August. Buy tickets here.
föstudagur, júlí 31, 2009
Icelandic bands múm, Ruxpin & GusGus in "In Search of Sound" Documentary
Icelandic bands múm, Ruxpin and Gus Gus will be featured in an upcoming documentary series, In Search of Sound, according to Newspaper visir. Over fifty solo artists and bands will appear, among them Mouse on Mars, Felix the Dog, Coldcut and Mogwai.
The documentary covers alternative music in 27 cities and countries, including Iceland. It is filmed by 22 different film makers and directed by Brian Parsons. Emphasis is put on an intimate backstage view of the artists and the record labels. Special screenings in Iceland have yet to be determined. Eysteinn Gudnason & Jónas Gudmundsson directed the Icelandic section.
“I chose those particular Icelandic artists because I have loved their music for many years and I couldn’t understand why they weren’t getting the attention they deserve in the USA” Brian Parsons said. It has not been disclosed which songs from the bands are heard in the film but GusGus will appear in the second series. The múm interview was done at Reykjavik’s Pond, whereas Ruxpin was followed on their concert tour over Iceland and Estonia.
"I find everything that has to do with Iceland interesting, especially the fact that such great music can come from such a small place. I see that as a symbol of the rich culture and the values of the people of Iceland” said Parsons.
Source: Iceland Review Online & Visir
The documentary covers alternative music in 27 cities and countries, including Iceland. It is filmed by 22 different film makers and directed by Brian Parsons. Emphasis is put on an intimate backstage view of the artists and the record labels. Special screenings in Iceland have yet to be determined. Eysteinn Gudnason & Jónas Gudmundsson directed the Icelandic section.
“I chose those particular Icelandic artists because I have loved their music for many years and I couldn’t understand why they weren’t getting the attention they deserve in the USA” Brian Parsons said. It has not been disclosed which songs from the bands are heard in the film but GusGus will appear in the second series. The múm interview was done at Reykjavik’s Pond, whereas Ruxpin was followed on their concert tour over Iceland and Estonia.
"I find everything that has to do with Iceland interesting, especially the fact that such great music can come from such a small place. I see that as a symbol of the rich culture and the values of the people of Iceland” said Parsons.
Source: Iceland Review Online & Visir
Emiliana Torrini releases "Me and Armini" EP in USA & UK
Emiliana Torrini will be releasing a new EP featuring live favourite "Me and Armini" alongside two very hot new remixes from Simone Lombardi & Dan Carey.The EP will be released on 10. August in the USA & 14. September in the UK and also features two unreleased versions of "Ha Ha" and "Beggar's Prayer" which were recorded for a live KCRW session in L.A..
Emiliana's Official Website
Mugison plays 5 Amnesty Concerts in 1 day @ New York 18. August
Mugison will play 5 gigs in one day (Five Boroughs In One Day) tour to support Amnesty International @ New York City
Mugie's Program
12:00 Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art @ Staten Island
14:00 The Silent Barn @ Queens
17:00 Place To be announced @ Bronx
20:00 Freeman’s Alley in Manhattan @ Manhattan
23:00 Pete's Candy Store @ Brooklyn
Mugison
"Jesus is a good name to moan" Live @ Aldrei, April 2009
www.youtube.com/v/YBU0YxWVVSY&hl&fmt=18
Mugie's Program
12:00 Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art @ Staten Island
14:00 The Silent Barn @ Queens
17:00 Place To be announced @ Bronx
20:00 Freeman’s Alley in Manhattan @ Manhattan
23:00 Pete's Candy Store @ Brooklyn
Mugison
"Jesus is a good name to moan" Live @ Aldrei, April 2009
www.youtube.com/v/YBU0YxWVVSY&hl&fmt=18
Verslunamannahelgin @ Karamba
Verslunamannahelgin @ KarambaLaugevegur 22, Reykjavík
Program
Friday 31. July
20:00 - S.L.Á.T.U.R Hlustunarpartý
00:00 - Danni Delúx
Saturday 1. August
00:00 - KGB
Sunday 2. August
00:00 - Bobby Breiðholt
fimmtudagur, júlí 30, 2009
Sigur Rós "Sæglópur" Alternative Video
A Heart Cath Video with "Sæglópur" by Sigur Rós as soundtrack
www.youtube.com/v/7BKi07q3jXk&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/7BKi07q3jXk&hl&fmt=18
Innipúkinn 2009 - The Full Program on 31. July-2. August
Innipúkinn Festival 2009
Tickets @ 2900 IKR (3 days) @ http://midi.is/tonleikar/1/5614
Full Program
Friday 31. July @ Batterí venue
20:00 - Sing For Me Sandra
21:00 - Morðingjarnir
22:00 - Me The Slumbering Napoleon & 3 Svanhvít
23:00 - Sin Fang Bous
00:00 - Sudden Weather Change
01:00 - Jeff Who?
@ Sódóma venue
21:30 - Bárujárn
22:30 - Bróðir Svartúlfs
23:30 - Benni Hemm Hemm
00:30 - Sykur
01:30 - Agent Fresco
Saturday 1. August
@ Batterí (Harbour) 17.00 - 20.00 Porthátíð Innipúkans:
Trúbatrixur, Búlluborgara grill, Múffubazar Maísólar, Tónlistarmarkaður, Gordon Cocteil Zeit and more
@ Batterí venue:
20:00 - K-Tríó
21:00 - Swords of Chaos
22:00 - Borko
23:00 - Singapore Sling
00:00 - Retrön
01:00 - FM Belfast
@ Sódóma venue:
21:30 - Rökkurró
22:30 - Dikta
23:30 - Seabear
01:00 - Gylfi Ægisson
02:00 - Stórsveit Nix Noltes
Sunday 2. August
20.00 - Pub Quiz
@ Batterí venue:
22:00 - Pascal Pinon
23:00 - For a Minor Reflection
00:00 - Hjaltalín
01:00 - Fallegir menn
@ Sódóma venue:
22:00 - Amiina, Kippi & Maggi
23:00 - Sigríður Thorlacius og Heiðurspiltar
00:00 - Megas & Ólöf Arnalds
DJs:
Gísli Galdur
Terrordisco
dj Benson
dj mokki
& more
Please note: changes in the program are possible!
miðvikudagur, júlí 29, 2009
Innipúkinn Music Festival: 30. July-2. August 2009: An Artist Update
New Additions To Innipúkinn31. July - 2. August
Added are:
singer-songwriter Megas
(the "Icelandic Bob Dylan")
!!! solo & collaboration with female singer Ólöf Arnalds
More
Hjaltalín
amiina
Jeff Who?
more more more:
Agent Fresco
Benni Hemm Hemm
Borko
Bróðir Svartúlfs
Dikta
Fallegir menn
FM Belfast
Gylfi Ægisson og Jóhanna Finnborg (GÆJÓ)
K-Trio
Mammút
Me the Slumbering Napoleon
Morðingjarnir
Ólöf Arnalds
Retrön
Seabear
Singapore Sling
Sudden Weather Change
Sykur
Admission for 3 days: 2.900 ISK
Tickets availabel @ Skifan Shop or @ MIDI
Iceland Airwaves 2009 - Local Applications
Icelandic artists / Artists based in Iceland can apply to perform @ next Airwaves Festival @Apply for Iceland Airwaves 2009.
þriðjudagur, júlí 28, 2009
Icelandic Music Laboratory # 3: Retro Stefson @ Berlin 1. August 2009
If you are in Berlin this weekend. Please check this out:101berlin
present
present
Icelandic Music Laboratory # 3
with
Retro Stefson
with
Retro Stefson
Saturday 1. August 2009 @ 21:00
@
Privatclub
Pücklerstrasse 34
Berlin
Berlin
10997
Admission: 8 EUR
@
Privatclub
Pücklerstrasse 34
Berlin
Berlin
10997
Admission: 8 EUR
Retro Stefson are one of the most popular up and coming bands in Iceland right now.
It’s not easy to put Retro Stefson into any kind of musical genre. They try to take their music to a new landscape that none of their countrymen in Iceland have been before. It’s pop and rock, disco and ska, and God knows what.
Their Debut album "Montaña" was released on Kimi Records last year.
Retro Stefson @ MySpace
Kimi Records Label
101berlin
It’s not easy to put Retro Stefson into any kind of musical genre. They try to take their music to a new landscape that none of their countrymen in Iceland have been before. It’s pop and rock, disco and ska, and God knows what.
Their Debut album "Montaña" was released on Kimi Records last year.
Retro Stefson @ MySpace
Kimi Records Label
101berlin
Electric Ethics (God is Electric) @ Jacobsen, Reykjavik 1. August 2009
Electric Ethics in collaboration withthe Neo-Collective Movement (Nýja Samvinnuhreyfingin) & Jacobsen
present@ Jacobsen venue @ Austurstræti
1. August 2009 @ 22:00
On the program:
| Stereo Hypnosis is presenting their New Album “Hypnogogia” released mid-August. This album was totally inspired by Jules Vernes and his book "Voyage au Centre de la Terre" & the Icelandic nature. Gjoll presents new material from their forthcoming album AMFJ (released the cassette "Itemhljóð & Veinan" lately) WC Einar Krautzwel Admission: 1000 IKR (with included appetizer in courtesy of Mekka) More information here: myspace. myspace. |
mánudagur, júlí 27, 2009
Hardcore Punk @ Kaffi Hljómalind, Reykjavik 31. July 2009
Kaffi Hljómalind, Laugavegur 23, R'vik31. July 2009
Start @ 20:00
Admission: Free
Ragnar Solberg goes Commercial
Ragnar Solberg, aka Zolberg, singer/songwriter, singer of the band Sign, in a German Vodafone Commercial performing David Bowie's "Heroes"
www.youtube.com/v/4jWTVB34WgE&hl&fmt=18
The Vodafone Ad
www.youtube.com/v/kSgHB6E92ZQ&hl&fmt=18
Ragnar's Website
www.youtube.com/v/4jWTVB34WgE&hl&fmt=18
The Vodafone Ad
www.youtube.com/v/kSgHB6E92ZQ&hl&fmt=18
Ragnar's Website
Song of the 122. Week: Björt Sigfinns "Raining"
122. Song of the Week is Björt Sigfinnsdóttir's song " Raining". Singer born & raised @ Seyðisfjörður, East Fjords of Iceland. Now living in Denmark.Björt @ MySpace
sunnudagur, júlí 26, 2009
Interview with Jóhann Jóhannsson by DaMusic: Kind regards from a happy melancholic
JJ is popular in Belgium, so he's often playing on Belgian ground. He has a good view on the Icelandic music scene in particular.
Read an interview in Dutch/Flemish called "Met hartelijke groet van een gelukkige melancholicus" with Jóhann Jóhannsson by Karen here.
A small part translated by me:
DaMusic: Why is it that your music, and also the music by Sigur Rós & múm, is so popular by making rather isolated soundscapes?
JJ: Well, our individualism unites us: we are very different but we all do our stuff in a radical way. You can call me, Sigur Rós & múm typical Icelandic, just because we are so different. Iceland is like a playgarden for musicians & artists, inbetween the cultural & political influences of the USA & Europe. In one way we're isolated & individualistic, in another way we're a melting pot. A bit like Reykjavik itself: on the first sight a small town, but at the same time cosmopolitan & anonymous city.
Jóhann Jóhannsson's Official Website
Read an interview in Dutch/Flemish called "Met hartelijke groet van een gelukkige melancholicus" with Jóhann Jóhannsson by Karen here.
A small part translated by me:
DaMusic: Why is it that your music, and also the music by Sigur Rós & múm, is so popular by making rather isolated soundscapes?
JJ: Well, our individualism unites us: we are very different but we all do our stuff in a radical way. You can call me, Sigur Rós & múm typical Icelandic, just because we are so different. Iceland is like a playgarden for musicians & artists, inbetween the cultural & political influences of the USA & Europe. In one way we're isolated & individualistic, in another way we're a melting pot. A bit like Reykjavik itself: on the first sight a small town, but at the same time cosmopolitan & anonymous city.
Jóhann Jóhannsson's Official Website
Bauer & Sterneck Slideshow
Slideshow of photos by German photographers Tina Bauer & Claus Sterneck. There is an exhibition of their work @ the old herring factory @ Djúpavík, West Fjords til the beginning of September.
Music is a song"Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum" by Hraun
www.youtube.com/v/cgvjg2X-5bM&hl&fmt=18
Music is a song"Ástarsaga úr fjöllunum" by Hraun
www.youtube.com/v/cgvjg2X-5bM&hl&fmt=18
We Went to Space Live @ Arnarhól 17. June 2009
We Went to Space played 3 songs @ Arnarhól on 17. June 2009: "Shutters", "By the Lamppost" & "Beneath a Willow Tree".
laugardagur, júlí 25, 2009
Beck covered "All Tomorrow's Parties" with Icelandic singer Þórunn Antonía on vocals
Beck did a cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico's song "All Tomorrow's Parties" with the help of Icelandic singer Þórunn Antonía Magnusdóttir.
More about her:
She released an Album called ''Those Little things'' in 2002, with the help of her father Magnús Þór Sigmundsson (member of band Change). Moved to England & started the band The Honeymoon with Wayne Murray (new guitar player of Manic Street Preachers). The band got signed to BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) and released the record ''Dialogue'' in 2004, produced by The Away Team, working with the Icelandic band Leaves @ that time.
"Truth hurts" by The Honeymoon
www.youtube.com/v/4EfhISFn6V0&hl&fmt=18
She was singer in the Danish band Junior Senior for a while. Later she joined the band Fields, who released an EP called ''4 From The Village'' in 2006 on Black Lab Records. Followed by debut album ''Everything Last Winter'' in 2007 released on Atlantic Records.
Further she collaborated on her father's solo records ''Hljóð er nóttin'' (2005) and ''Sea son'' in 2007.
Nowadays she's living in Los Angeles and been singing with The New no2. She's working on another solo record in Iceland (recording a demo for a pop album).
Read an interview in Icelandic in the latest Monitor issue # 17
She's talking about The Honeymoon making a videoclip @ Oxford: price 70.000£ (1.000.000 IKR) & close encounters with Britney Spears @ Nightclub @ LA ("Oh my God, my arms are SO fat").
There is one song of her on the "Trúbatrix: Taka 1" Album.
Þórunn @ Myspace
The Honeymoon @ MySpace
Magnus Thor @ Myspace
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "All Tomorrow's Parties" from Beck Hansen
Beck's Website
More about her:
She released an Album called ''Those Little things'' in 2002, with the help of her father Magnús Þór Sigmundsson (member of band Change). Moved to England & started the band The Honeymoon with Wayne Murray (new guitar player of Manic Street Preachers). The band got signed to BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) and released the record ''Dialogue'' in 2004, produced by The Away Team, working with the Icelandic band Leaves @ that time.
"Truth hurts" by The Honeymoon
www.youtube.com/v/4EfhISFn6V0&hl&fmt=18
She was singer in the Danish band Junior Senior for a while. Later she joined the band Fields, who released an EP called ''4 From The Village'' in 2006 on Black Lab Records. Followed by debut album ''Everything Last Winter'' in 2007 released on Atlantic Records.
Further she collaborated on her father's solo records ''Hljóð er nóttin'' (2005) and ''Sea son'' in 2007.
Nowadays she's living in Los Angeles and been singing with The New no2. She's working on another solo record in Iceland (recording a demo for a pop album).
Read an interview in Icelandic in the latest Monitor issue # 17
She's talking about The Honeymoon making a videoclip @ Oxford: price 70.000£ (1.000.000 IKR) & close encounters with Britney Spears @ Nightclub @ LA ("Oh my God, my arms are SO fat").
There is one song of her on the "Trúbatrix: Taka 1" Album.
Þórunn @ Myspace
The Honeymoon @ MySpace
Magnus Thor @ Myspace
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "All Tomorrow's Parties" from Beck Hansen
Beck's Website
föstudagur, júlí 24, 2009
múm Upcoming European & North-American Gigs
múm
Upcoming shows in Europe & North-America
múm Website
múm @ MySpace
Upcoming shows in Europe & North-America
| 08/14/09 | Leicester | summer sunday | England | ||
| 08/15/09 | Edinburgh | studio 24 | Scotland | ||
| 08/17/09 | Cardiff | National Museum of Wales | Wales | ||
| 08/18/09 | Norwich | Norwich Arts Centre | England | ||
| 08/25/09 | Amsterdam | Melkweg | The Netherlands | ||
| 08/26/09 | Luxembourg | Exit 07 | Luxembourg | ||
| 08/27/09 | Munchen | Atomic Cafe | Germany | ||
| 08/28/09 | Dresden | Beatpol | Germany | ||
| 08/30/09 | Katowice | Nowamuzyka Festival | Poland | ||
| 09/01/09 | Brussels | Botanique | Belgium | ||
| 09/02/09 | Lucerne | Südpol | Switzerland | ||
| 09/03/09 | Winterhur | Salzhaus | Switzerland | ||
| 09/04/09 | the Great Wide Open | Great Wide Open Festival | The Netherlands | ||
| 09/05/09 | Berlin | Lido | Germany | ||
| 09/06/09 | Hamburg | Knust | Germany | ||
| 09/07/09 | Köln | Gebaeude 9 | Germany | ||
| 09/08/09 | Paris | Maroquinierie | France | ||
| 09/09/09 | Strassburg | La Laiterie | France | ||
| 09/10/09 | Lille | Radar Festival | France | ||
| 10/21/09 | Somerville, MA | the Somerville Theatre | USA | ||
| 10/22/09 | Philadelphia, PA | First Unitarian Church | USA | ||
| 10/23/09 | Washington DC, DC | Black Cat | USA | ||
| 10/24/09 | New York city, NY | le Poisson Rouge | USA | ||
| 10/26/09 | Montreal | Le National | Canada | ||
| 10/27/09 | Toronto | Phoenix Concert Theatre | Canada | ||
| 10/28/09 | Chicago | Logan Square Auditorium | US | ||
| 10/29/09 | Minneapolis | McGuire Theater | US | ||
| 11/01/09 | Calgary | Marquee Room | Canada | ||
| 11/02/09 | Vancouver | Richards on Richards | Canada | ||
| 11/03/09 | Seattle | Showbox at the Market | US | ||
| 11/04/09 | Portland, Oregon | Aladdin Theater | US | ||
| 11/05/09 | San Francisco, CA | The Independent | US | ||
| 11/06/09 | Los Angeles, CA | El Rey Theatre | US | ||
| 11/07/09 | Santa Ana, CA | Yost Theatre | US |
múm @ MySpace
Albums expected to be released this year: Another update
Icelandc artists expected to release some material this year:
Agent Fresco
Blindfold: release of Album "Faking dreams" on 1. August
Bloodgroup: working on 2. Album
Árstíðir: Debut Album "Árstíðir" has been released in June by their own Nevalis Ltd company. Album recorded @ Hljóðriti Studio @ Hafnarfjörður (engineered, mixed and mastered by the unique producer Axel “Flex” Árnasson)
Dikta
Dynamo Fog: a full Album this year - Update: R.I.P. Dynamo Fog
Elíza (Newman): working on her 2. Album - her "Ukelele Song" was no. 1 in Icelandic chart
Ensími?
For a Minor Reflection: working on a 2. Album
Ghostigital?
GusGus: 6. studio album "24/7" out on Kompakt Label 14. September - Single "Add this song" already released
Hafdís Huld: working on a 2. Album - Spiderman Song "Kóngulo"
Hellvar: working on a 2. Album - with a new fantastic song "Falsetto"
Hjaltalín: are in the Hljóðriti recording studio in Hafnarfjörður for their 2. Album
Jónsi: first Solo album will be produced by his partner Alex Somers
Jónsi & Alex: "Riceboy Sleeps" was released this week
Kimono: "Easy music for difficult people"
múm: "Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know!" out on Hostess Label in Japan on 19. August, Morr Music in Europe on the 24. August, and on Euphono in the USA on 8. September
Leaves: 4. Album "We are shadows" is already out
Lights on the Highway: 2. Album "Amanita muscarina" will be released on 1. August
Morðingjarnir: just finished recording 12 Songs for their 3. Album (with Dead Kennedys/The Kinks/Bon Jovi influences according to Haukur)
Ólöf Arnalds: working on a 2. Album
Ólafur Arnalds: his Twitter project "Found Songs" in a Limited Edition (CD in Digislave/10" Vinyl - Booklet with Flickr Group photos) out on 31. August , working hard on this new Album with producer is Barði Jóhannsson - also working on a score for Wayne McGregor's new ballet inbetween
Nögl: Debut Album
Retrön: Debut Album "Swordplay & Guitarslay" was released on 7. July
Rökkurró: working on a 2. Album with producer Alex Somers
Slow Blow?
Sprengjuhöllin: guys are working on an Album in English
Sudden Weather Change: Debut Album "Stop! Handgrenade In The Name of Crib Death 'nderstand?" was released on Kimi Records
Who Knew: Debut Album
Agent Fresco
Blindfold: release of Album "Faking dreams" on 1. August
Bloodgroup: working on 2. Album
Árstíðir: Debut Album "Árstíðir" has been released in June by their own Nevalis Ltd company. Album recorded @ Hljóðriti Studio @ Hafnarfjörður (engineered, mixed and mastered by the unique producer Axel “Flex” Árnasson)
Dikta
Dynamo Fog: a full Album this year - Update: R.I.P. Dynamo Fog
Elíza (Newman): working on her 2. Album - her "Ukelele Song" was no. 1 in Icelandic chart
Ensími?
For a Minor Reflection: working on a 2. Album
Ghostigital?
GusGus: 6. studio album "24/7" out on Kompakt Label 14. September - Single "Add this song" already released
Hafdís Huld: working on a 2. Album - Spiderman Song "Kóngulo"
Hellvar: working on a 2. Album - with a new fantastic song "Falsetto"
Hjaltalín: are in the Hljóðriti recording studio in Hafnarfjörður for their 2. Album
Jónsi: first Solo album will be produced by his partner Alex Somers
Jónsi & Alex: "Riceboy Sleeps" was released this week
Kimono: "Easy music for difficult people"
múm: "Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know!" out on Hostess Label in Japan on 19. August, Morr Music in Europe on the 24. August, and on Euphono in the USA on 8. September
Leaves: 4. Album "We are shadows" is already out
Lights on the Highway: 2. Album "Amanita muscarina" will be released on 1. August
Morðingjarnir: just finished recording 12 Songs for their 3. Album (with Dead Kennedys/The Kinks/Bon Jovi influences according to Haukur)
Ólöf Arnalds: working on a 2. Album
Ólafur Arnalds: his Twitter project "Found Songs" in a Limited Edition (CD in Digislave/10" Vinyl - Booklet with Flickr Group photos) out on 31. August , working hard on this new Album with producer is Barði Jóhannsson - also working on a score for Wayne McGregor's new ballet inbetween
Nögl: Debut Album
Retrön: Debut Album "Swordplay & Guitarslay" was released on 7. July
Rökkurró: working on a 2. Album with producer Alex Somers
Slow Blow?
Sprengjuhöllin: guys are working on an Album in English
Sudden Weather Change: Debut Album "Stop! Handgrenade In The Name of Crib Death 'nderstand?" was released on Kimi Records
Who Knew: Debut Album
Thanks to Leo!
Útgáfutónleikar/Release Concert Cosmic Call @ Sódóma Reykjavík 24. July
Útgáfutónleikar/Release Concert Cosmic Call
Friday 24. July 2009
@ Sódóma Reykjavík, Tryggvagata 22
Doors @ 21:00
Supporting Acts: Sykur & Who Knew
Admission: 500 IKR
Friday 24. July 2009
@ Sódóma Reykjavík, Tryggvagata 22
Doors @ 21:00
Supporting Acts: Sykur & Who Knew
Admission: 500 IKR
Sólstafir @ Grand Rokk 25. July - European Gigs in August, September & October
Sólstafir in concert Saturday 25. July@ Grand Rokk venue @ 23:00
Support Acts: Hrafnaþing & Forgarður Helvítis
Doors @ 22:00
Admission: 1000 IKR
European Tour Dates:
6. August 2009
Partysan Open Air Festival Bad Berka (D)
16. August 2009
Jalometalli Festival Oulo (FI)
19. September 2009 8:00P
Baroeg /w Secrets of the Moon Rotterdam (NL)
20. September 2009 8:00P
Purple Turtle /w Secrets of the Moon London (UK)
22. September 2009 8:00P
Elm Street /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Oslo (Nor)
23. September 2009 8:00P
The Rock /w Secrets of the Moon Kopenhagen (DK)
24. September 2009 8:00P
Grünspan /w Secrets of the Moon, Code & Borknagar Hamburg (D)
25. September 2009 8:00P
Poppodium /w Secrets of the Moon, Code & Borknagar Leeuwarden (NL)
26. September 2009 8:00P
Turbinenhalle /w Secrets of the Moon, Code & Borknagar Oberhausen (D)
27. September 2009 8:00P
TBA /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Paris (FRA)
28. September 2009 8:00P
TBA /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Toulouse (FRA)
30. September 2009 8:00P
TBA /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Stuttgart (D)
1. October 2009 8:00P
Musikzentrum /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Hannover (D)
2. October 2009 8:00P
East Club /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Bischofswerda (D)
3. October 2009 8:00P
Faval Music Circus /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Brno (CZ)
4. October 2009 8:00P
Diesel /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Budapest (HUN)
5. October 2009 8:00P
Hirsch /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Nurnberg (D)
6. October 2009 8:00P
Z7 /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Pratteln (SWI)
8. October 2009 8:00P
Backstage /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Munich (D)
9. October 2009 8:00P
Festung /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Bitterfeld (D)
10 October 2009 8:00P
M-A-L Festival /w Secrets of the Moon, Code + more. Altenburg (D)
11. October 2009 8:00P
Posthalle /w Secrets of the Moon & Code Würzburg (D)
13. October 2009
Bad Bonn, Bonn (D)
15. October 2009
Nosturi, Helsinki (FIN)
16. October 2009
TBA, Stockholm (SWE)
17. October 2009
TBA, Gothenburg (SWE)
"Köld"
www.youtube.com/v/1YQh2vyGhmA&hl&fmt=18
Sólstafir Official Website
Sólstafir @ MySpace
fimmtudagur, júlí 23, 2009
Hjaltalín Live @ Uncut Arena, Latitude Festival: "Suitcase man"
Hjaltalín @ Latitude Festival, 19. July 2009
"Suitcase man"
www.youtube.com/v/FpPOfr_Q83c&hl&fmt=16
Hjaltalín @ MySpace
"Suitcase man"
www.youtube.com/v/FpPOfr_Q83c&hl&fmt=16
Hjaltalín @ MySpace
Björk & Choir "Anchor Song" in Icelandic (Um akkeri) 31. December 1999
Björk & Europe Choir @ Hallgrímskirkja (Church of Hallgrímur) @ Reykjavík (1999)
"Um akkeri" (Anchor Song)
www.youtube.com/v/ZTEz85TUUQI&hl&fmt=16
"Um akkeri" (Anchor Song)
www.youtube.com/v/ZTEz85TUUQI&hl&fmt=16
miðvikudagur, júlí 22, 2009
Fuglabúrið #3 with Bubbi & Hafdís Huld @ Café Rósenberg 5. August 2009
Reykjavík Grapevine Magazine & Félag Tónskálda og Textahöfunda present
Fuglabúrið #3
Bubbi & Hafdís Huld
5. August 2009 @ Café Rósenberg @ 21:00
#1 Concert was on 11. June with Bryndís Jakobsdóttir aka Dísa & her famous mother Ragnhildur Gísladóttir
#2 Concert was on 1. July with Megas & Ólöf Arnalds
#3 Concert on 5. August @ 21:00 @ Rósenberg, Klapparstígur with Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir & Bubbi Morthens
Playing seperate & together!
Bubbi Morthens Website
Tickets @ MIDI or @ Skífan Shop
Price: 2000 IKR
4 Amiina Concerts @ Seaside
Kraumur Fund presents
Amiina við sjávarsíðuna @ Seaside
Amiina in concert around Iceland, playing a few songsAmiina við sjávarsíðuna @ Seaside
24. July @ Bláa kirkjan (Blue Church/most beautiful church of the country in my opinion) @ Seyðisfjörður @ 17:00
25. July @ Dalatangaviti Light House @ 16:00
26. July @ Hvalasafnið (Whale Museum) @ Húsavík @ 21:00
27. July @ Sauðanesviti Light House @ 17:00
Admission: Free!!
"Hilli" Live @ Italy
www.youtube.com/v/ZZtEMzDpnZw&hl&fmt=18
Amiina's Official Website
þriðjudagur, júlí 21, 2009
Björk on Finnish TV in 1996
What a coincidence. Just back from Finland, I found this videos showing a nervous Björk being interviewed on Finnish TV back in 1996.
Part 1
www.youtube.com/v/VjcVKU0gnGo&hl&fmt=18
Part 2
www.youtube.com/v/NLa6v72H3N8&hl&fmt=18
Part 3
www.youtube.com/v/gXwqc4gSxRI&hl&fmt=18
Part 1
www.youtube.com/v/VjcVKU0gnGo&hl&fmt=18
Part 2
www.youtube.com/v/NLa6v72H3N8&hl&fmt=18
Part 3
www.youtube.com/v/gXwqc4gSxRI&hl&fmt=18
Iceland's 50 Most Influential People: The Musicians in the List
In Belgium Kaupthing has become a synonym with Iceland. In the UK & The Netherlands, the Icesave disaster made terrorists/thiefs of all Icelanders. But there is more than Kaupthing, Kreppa & Krónan in Iceland. In het latest Monitor Magazine issue (Summer 2009) a list of Iceland's 50 most influential (important/significant) people was published. A lot of musicians in this Top 50
50 MIKILVÆGUSTU MANNESKJUR ÍSLANDS:
3. Emiliana Torrini
www.youtube.com/v/SaLJLvt8BIk&hl&fmt=18
4. Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, internationally known as Páll Óskar or Paul Oscar
5. Sigur Rós
6. Björk
14. Dr. Gunni (Gunnar Lárus Hjálmarsson)
17. Baggalútur
18. Mugison
23. Hr. Örlygur (Mr. Destiny)/Iceland Airwaves
42. Gogoyoko
43. Ólafur Arnalds
44. Steed Lord
48. Haffi Haff
49. Mammút
50. Hemmi Gunn
Source: Monitor
Rock Bar Dillon Summer Festival @ Verslunarmannahelgina 31. July-2. August
A lot of possibilities to spend the next weekend in Iceland(also known as Verslunarmannahelgina).
Rock Bar Dillon, Laugavegur 30, has a 3 Days Summer Festival Jack Live with a lot of bands:
Agent Fresco
Brain Police
Dikta
Ourlives
Ten Steps Away
B.Sig
Vicky
Cliff Clavin
Dust
Sólstafir
Nögl
Bróðir Svartúlfs
Sing of me Sandra
Deep Purple Coverband
Admission: 2500 (3 days) or 1500 IKR (1 day)
Brain Police
Dikta
Ourlives
Ten Steps Away
B.Sig
Vicky
Cliff Clavin
Dust
Sólstafir
Nögl
Bróðir Svartúlfs
Sing of me Sandra
Deep Purple Coverband
The History of Icelandic Rock - Part 6
The History of Icelandic Rock
Part 6
Hljómar Invent Icelandic Pop
Dr. Gunni in Grapevine Magazine (Issue # 10, July 2009)
During 1967 and ‘68, Hljómar were once again the major band in Iceland. After the band’s failure to break through (both internationally and locally) with their “difficult” experimental rhythm & blues (as Thor’s Hammer, later recognised as one of the best music made in Iceland during the sixties), the band set out to play more “comfortable” pop music. The plot worked out fine. The band quickly gained back their earlier popularity and Svavar Gests decided to finance a Hljómar album for his SG imprint. This eponymous Hljómar album was to become the first
Icelandic modern pop album.
The band had to be flown to London, as Iceland’s recording studios at that time ere deemed “not good enough.” Hljómar recorded twelve songs. Five songs were new originals, three by Gunnar
Þórðarson, one by Þórir Baldursson, and one by Dátar’s Rúnar Gunnarsson. The rest of the album featured cover versions of foreign hits with Icelandic lyrics, often by Þorsteinn Eggertsson (who also drew the album’s cover). During the trip to London, the band stocked up on the newest threads from hip shops on Carnaby Street. An Icelandic TV special was made with the band lip-synching to the songs dressed to the gills in hippie gear with flowerpots dangling from their guitars. Hljómar had obviously seen The Beatles’ performance of All you need is Love as their appearance looked similar, with young hip people sitting around, including members of Flowers and other bands, grooving convincingly to the music.
Hljómar played relentlessly at dance balls all around Iceland. The band rarely performed their own songs but mostly cover versions of recent international hits. These balls had little to do with love and peace. Rúnar Júlíusson, the beloved singer and bassist, had originally been prone to shyness, playing with his back to the audience. Now he had turned into a wild animal on stage. He jumped, climbed, dived, even stripped on stage. His stage act was legendary and hasn’t been
matched since. The guests didn’t come for any peace crap either. The drunk and horny crowd often tore down the places to the pounding backdrop of Hljómar’s music. A legendary ball in Sandgerði in 1968 ended in a riot after the band stopped playing at two o’clock instead of four as
promised. Chairs, windows, glasses and bottles were smashed, leaving the place in ruins.
Sheepskin vests for world domination Dreams of world domination were re-kindled when Hljómar tried to break into the Scandinavian market in 1968. In a joint effort with Guðlaugur Bergmann, who had run Reykjavík’s hippest fashion store, Karnabær, for two years, the band
went to Sweden as ambassadors of Icelandic pop and fashion. “The band tends to bring together the traditional Icelandic way and the world of pop,” wrote Morgunblaðið, adding: “Hljómar will all be dressed in sheepskin-vests. Knitted sock-shoes, caps, etc. will be brought along.
Hljómar have arranged ancient Icelandic rhyme motifs and added into their music and the langspil (ancient Icelandic instrument) will be taken along.”
The trip didn’t do much, neither for Icelandic fashion nor Hljómar. The band was offered a support slot for The Spencer Davis Group though, but the members didn’t think that was good enough.
For their second album (also eponymous, but later referred to as Hljómar II), the band added Shady Owens to the line-up. Shady was a 19-year-old daughter of an American soldier and Icelandic mother, and had stayed in Iceland for a while, singing with Óðmenn. She had a
wonderful voice and sang the Icelandic lyrics with a charming American accent.
The album was recorded in London in a record-breaking 35 hours (their first LP had taken 16 hours). Sixteen session musicians played on the album, including keyboardist Nick Hopkins, who had just played on “Revolution” for The Beatles. The album had six original songs by Gunnar Þórðarson on Side 1 and six cover versions on Side 2. Soon after the album’s release, Gunnar admitted regrets for including the cover songs. The album cost much more than SG had intended and sold less than the first album. A lawsuit ensued which ended in Hljómar having
to pay SG back for the extravaganza.
As the hair and beards grew longer and the general rock direction got heavier and more progressive, Hljómar’s pop direction started to date fast. Hljómar’s primary competition had been psychedelic pop band Flowers, and within that band, too, some wanted to move on to play a different kind of music. The band members – especially the two Gunnars (Þórðarson from Hljómar and Jökull Hákonarson, the drummer from Flowers) – discussed a liaison, often in privacy at discothèque Las Vegas on Grensásvegur. The conclusion was Trúbrot, Iceland’s first “super-group”. We’ll get to that next time.
Dr. Gunni, based on his book Eru ekki allir í stuði? (Rock in Iceland), published in 2000.
A revisited up-date of the book is forthcoming in 2010.
Part 6
Hljómar Invent Icelandic Pop
Dr. Gunni in Grapevine Magazine (Issue # 10, July 2009)
During 1967 and ‘68, Hljómar were once again the major band in Iceland. After the band’s failure to break through (both internationally and locally) with their “difficult” experimental rhythm & blues (as Thor’s Hammer, later recognised as one of the best music made in Iceland during the sixties), the band set out to play more “comfortable” pop music. The plot worked out fine. The band quickly gained back their earlier popularity and Svavar Gests decided to finance a Hljómar album for his SG imprint. This eponymous Hljómar album was to become the first
Icelandic modern pop album.
The band had to be flown to London, as Iceland’s recording studios at that time ere deemed “not good enough.” Hljómar recorded twelve songs. Five songs were new originals, three by Gunnar
Þórðarson, one by Þórir Baldursson, and one by Dátar’s Rúnar Gunnarsson. The rest of the album featured cover versions of foreign hits with Icelandic lyrics, often by Þorsteinn Eggertsson (who also drew the album’s cover). During the trip to London, the band stocked up on the newest threads from hip shops on Carnaby Street. An Icelandic TV special was made with the band lip-synching to the songs dressed to the gills in hippie gear with flowerpots dangling from their guitars. Hljómar had obviously seen The Beatles’ performance of All you need is Love as their appearance looked similar, with young hip people sitting around, including members of Flowers and other bands, grooving convincingly to the music.
Hljómar played relentlessly at dance balls all around Iceland. The band rarely performed their own songs but mostly cover versions of recent international hits. These balls had little to do with love and peace. Rúnar Júlíusson, the beloved singer and bassist, had originally been prone to shyness, playing with his back to the audience. Now he had turned into a wild animal on stage. He jumped, climbed, dived, even stripped on stage. His stage act was legendary and hasn’t been
matched since. The guests didn’t come for any peace crap either. The drunk and horny crowd often tore down the places to the pounding backdrop of Hljómar’s music. A legendary ball in Sandgerði in 1968 ended in a riot after the band stopped playing at two o’clock instead of four as
promised. Chairs, windows, glasses and bottles were smashed, leaving the place in ruins.
Sheepskin vests for world domination Dreams of world domination were re-kindled when Hljómar tried to break into the Scandinavian market in 1968. In a joint effort with Guðlaugur Bergmann, who had run Reykjavík’s hippest fashion store, Karnabær, for two years, the band
went to Sweden as ambassadors of Icelandic pop and fashion. “The band tends to bring together the traditional Icelandic way and the world of pop,” wrote Morgunblaðið, adding: “Hljómar will all be dressed in sheepskin-vests. Knitted sock-shoes, caps, etc. will be brought along.
Hljómar have arranged ancient Icelandic rhyme motifs and added into their music and the langspil (ancient Icelandic instrument) will be taken along.”
The trip didn’t do much, neither for Icelandic fashion nor Hljómar. The band was offered a support slot for The Spencer Davis Group though, but the members didn’t think that was good enough.
For their second album (also eponymous, but later referred to as Hljómar II), the band added Shady Owens to the line-up. Shady was a 19-year-old daughter of an American soldier and Icelandic mother, and had stayed in Iceland for a while, singing with Óðmenn. She had a
wonderful voice and sang the Icelandic lyrics with a charming American accent.
The album was recorded in London in a record-breaking 35 hours (their first LP had taken 16 hours). Sixteen session musicians played on the album, including keyboardist Nick Hopkins, who had just played on “Revolution” for The Beatles. The album had six original songs by Gunnar Þórðarson on Side 1 and six cover versions on Side 2. Soon after the album’s release, Gunnar admitted regrets for including the cover songs. The album cost much more than SG had intended and sold less than the first album. A lawsuit ensued which ended in Hljómar having
to pay SG back for the extravaganza.
As the hair and beards grew longer and the general rock direction got heavier and more progressive, Hljómar’s pop direction started to date fast. Hljómar’s primary competition had been psychedelic pop band Flowers, and within that band, too, some wanted to move on to play a different kind of music. The band members – especially the two Gunnars (Þórðarson from Hljómar and Jökull Hákonarson, the drummer from Flowers) – discussed a liaison, often in privacy at discothèque Las Vegas on Grensásvegur. The conclusion was Trúbrot, Iceland’s first “super-group”. We’ll get to that next time.
Dr. Gunni, based on his book Eru ekki allir í stuði? (Rock in Iceland), published in 2000.
A revisited up-date of the book is forthcoming in 2010.
Jónsi & Alex released Debut Album, New Website, Interview & In the spotlight @ IMX
Jónsi Birgisson & Alex Somers Album "Riceboy Sleeps" is out now.
www.youtube.com/v/2DkUlm9OY0c&hl&fmt=18
More information @ Jónsi & Alex
In the spotlight @ IMX:
A couple of months back the early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced in physical form for the first time, with the track "Happiness", on the exemplary ‘Dark Was The Night’ Red Hot compilation. Now the full-length "Riceboy Sleeps" album is finished and ready for release.
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ is a 68-minute ambient odyssey, that embraces the cerebral and the human in equal measure. Played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland (and featuring long-time Sigur Rós string collaborators Amiina, as well as the Kópavogsdætur Choir) and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii, ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ has a suitably “organic feel” to it.
Alex - you’re known predominantly as a visual artist. How long have you been making music?
I’ve been making music for a long time, actually since before the visual stuff. I have been in bands since I was 15, mostly rock and roll bands, so making music and collaborating is not new for me. This is the first album I’ve released or published though…
When did you both get into “quieter” music?
Alex: When I was 18 or 19. I used to make music with my brother, which was always quieter. I immediately liked it. It felt somehow like it was my roots. If felt right to lose the pulse. Before Riceboy sleeps I’d been making stuff by myself at home, with good friends or again with my brother.
Jónsi: When I was young I used to put on ambient music. I used to listen to it intensely, it really did something for me. If I was feeling blue and sad it would actually soothe me. As you get older and more boring you tend to put it on and keep it in the background. The challenge for us was to make something quiet but still interesting. I was listening to [our album] recently and was surprised at how intense it is in places. It’s not like a pure ambient album. It’s not really all that relaxing sometimes.
Is this music is intimately tied up with your combined visual art aesthetic?
Alex: Definitely. They are one and the same for me. When Jónsi and I make photos or video projects, they come from exactly the same place as the songs. We’re always hoping to create the same kind of atmosphere.
When did the two of you first start making music?
Alex: We’ve been making music since we met in 2005, on and off. In fact we’ve been working on this project since then. We didn’t know we had an album until recently though. When we realized this, we took a month off and went to Hawaii to mix the album there.
And the whole album was recorded at your home in Reykjavik?
Alex: Yes, in our apartment we have all the instruments - harmonium, celeste, glockenspiels, piano, guitars…we wrote the whole thing on acoustic instruments.
Jonsi: It was really drawn out and involved time spent in our living room and kitchen. It was great.
How did the song-writing process work for this project?
Alex: Often the songs would grow from a sample or something, and just evolve. They very often became something else than they were intended to be. I personally like playing piano, guitar and harmonium. They are my three favourites. I also love the sampler, recording sounds and then playing with them and processing them.
Jónsi: We put in equal amounts. It was such a casual and lengthy project that no one can say what anyone else did. We had no deadline and no pressure. I would maybe fiddle around on a piano, then we’d leave it for half a year and then discover it and think “that sounds nice”. Some songs came quickly, some slowly. The last song, Sleeping Giant, took all five years and was one of the last songs that we finished.
Is the project influenced by any ‘ambient’ producers in particular, Eno for example?
Alex: Hm, nothing that I can think of. I personally think Eno is cool and I like his music. But really it was us doing our own thing. We never sit around listening to ambient music together or anything.
The album spans your entire relationship. Does it feel like some kind of personal archival document to you?
Alex: It is a bit like that. Most couples don’t get the opportunity to share their relationship in this way, and it sounds like the two of us at home to me for sure.
Jónsi: I think so too, but it needs more time to sink in. When you’ve just finished albums you want to get away from them. Only after some time can you think back to the special moments and atmospheres.
Some ambient albums are created electronically but this is way more acoustic
Alex: All the instruments were acoustic, and we added a string section and choir to help give it that feel. Sometimes with ambient bands it sounds too electronic. There’s mistakes here and it sounds rough in places. I mean we’re not the best engineers.
Jónsi - what crossovers were there between this project and your work with Sigur Rós?
There are always going to be parallels with music projects. It was a little bit like Sigur Rós sometimes in the working method and the way we slowed things down, reversed things and tweaked them. And of course we worked with amiina, the string quartet that play with Sigur Rós. You can’t help but have it be similar in some ways.
You went to the jungle in Hawaii to mix it all down. Why there?
Alex: We just wanted to go somewhere warm and to have some real undisturbed focus. We just took our laptops and speakers. Jónsi found out about a raw food community, like 12-15 people living together living off the land and using only solar power. So we had this small hut in the middle of the jungle and had dinners with these people from all over world and for all ages. It was a great way to finish an album. Sometimes we had the music up loud and it was quite amusing one evening to find this hippy lady called Humming Bird meditating outside our hut and making these spiritual comments…
Will you be doing anything live?
Jónsi: Maybe next year we will. It depends on the schedule. We’d want to do it with maybe a small string section or a choir, and of course some visual elements. We haven’t gotten that far yet though….
Source: Iceland Music Export IMX
Read another interview with the Duo @ Woolf and Wilde
www.youtube.com/v/2DkUlm9OY0c&hl&fmt=18
More information @ Jónsi & Alex
In the spotlight @ IMX:
Sleeping Giants
Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur Rós, Jón Þór (Jónsi) Birgisson has - together with his partner Alex Somers - been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now.A couple of months back the early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced in physical form for the first time, with the track "Happiness", on the exemplary ‘Dark Was The Night’ Red Hot compilation. Now the full-length "Riceboy Sleeps" album is finished and ready for release.
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ is a 68-minute ambient odyssey, that embraces the cerebral and the human in equal measure. Played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland (and featuring long-time Sigur Rós string collaborators Amiina, as well as the Kópavogsdætur Choir) and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii, ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ has a suitably “organic feel” to it.
Alex - you’re known predominantly as a visual artist. How long have you been making music?
I’ve been making music for a long time, actually since before the visual stuff. I have been in bands since I was 15, mostly rock and roll bands, so making music and collaborating is not new for me. This is the first album I’ve released or published though…
When did you both get into “quieter” music?
Alex: When I was 18 or 19. I used to make music with my brother, which was always quieter. I immediately liked it. It felt somehow like it was my roots. If felt right to lose the pulse. Before Riceboy sleeps I’d been making stuff by myself at home, with good friends or again with my brother.
Jónsi: When I was young I used to put on ambient music. I used to listen to it intensely, it really did something for me. If I was feeling blue and sad it would actually soothe me. As you get older and more boring you tend to put it on and keep it in the background. The challenge for us was to make something quiet but still interesting. I was listening to [our album] recently and was surprised at how intense it is in places. It’s not like a pure ambient album. It’s not really all that relaxing sometimes.
Is this music is intimately tied up with your combined visual art aesthetic?
Alex: Definitely. They are one and the same for me. When Jónsi and I make photos or video projects, they come from exactly the same place as the songs. We’re always hoping to create the same kind of atmosphere.
When did the two of you first start making music?
Alex: We’ve been making music since we met in 2005, on and off. In fact we’ve been working on this project since then. We didn’t know we had an album until recently though. When we realized this, we took a month off and went to Hawaii to mix the album there.
And the whole album was recorded at your home in Reykjavik?
Alex: Yes, in our apartment we have all the instruments - harmonium, celeste, glockenspiels, piano, guitars…we wrote the whole thing on acoustic instruments.
Jonsi: It was really drawn out and involved time spent in our living room and kitchen. It was great.
How did the song-writing process work for this project?
Alex: Often the songs would grow from a sample or something, and just evolve. They very often became something else than they were intended to be. I personally like playing piano, guitar and harmonium. They are my three favourites. I also love the sampler, recording sounds and then playing with them and processing them.
Jónsi: We put in equal amounts. It was such a casual and lengthy project that no one can say what anyone else did. We had no deadline and no pressure. I would maybe fiddle around on a piano, then we’d leave it for half a year and then discover it and think “that sounds nice”. Some songs came quickly, some slowly. The last song, Sleeping Giant, took all five years and was one of the last songs that we finished.
Is the project influenced by any ‘ambient’ producers in particular, Eno for example?
Alex: Hm, nothing that I can think of. I personally think Eno is cool and I like his music. But really it was us doing our own thing. We never sit around listening to ambient music together or anything.
The album spans your entire relationship. Does it feel like some kind of personal archival document to you?
Alex: It is a bit like that. Most couples don’t get the opportunity to share their relationship in this way, and it sounds like the two of us at home to me for sure.
Jónsi: I think so too, but it needs more time to sink in. When you’ve just finished albums you want to get away from them. Only after some time can you think back to the special moments and atmospheres.
Some ambient albums are created electronically but this is way more acoustic
Alex: All the instruments were acoustic, and we added a string section and choir to help give it that feel. Sometimes with ambient bands it sounds too electronic. There’s mistakes here and it sounds rough in places. I mean we’re not the best engineers.
Jónsi - what crossovers were there between this project and your work with Sigur Rós?
There are always going to be parallels with music projects. It was a little bit like Sigur Rós sometimes in the working method and the way we slowed things down, reversed things and tweaked them. And of course we worked with amiina, the string quartet that play with Sigur Rós. You can’t help but have it be similar in some ways.
You went to the jungle in Hawaii to mix it all down. Why there?
Alex: We just wanted to go somewhere warm and to have some real undisturbed focus. We just took our laptops and speakers. Jónsi found out about a raw food community, like 12-15 people living together living off the land and using only solar power. So we had this small hut in the middle of the jungle and had dinners with these people from all over world and for all ages. It was a great way to finish an album. Sometimes we had the music up loud and it was quite amusing one evening to find this hippy lady called Humming Bird meditating outside our hut and making these spiritual comments…
Will you be doing anything live?
Jónsi: Maybe next year we will. It depends on the schedule. We’d want to do it with maybe a small string section or a choir, and of course some visual elements. We haven’t gotten that far yet though….
Source: Iceland Music Export IMX
Read another interview with the Duo @ Woolf and Wilde
Sólstafir Video "Love is the devil (And I am in love)"
A nice video for the Sólstafir song "Love is the devil (And I am in love)" , directed & written by the drummer of the band, shot & edited by SIRGussi.
www.youtube.com/v/AaKpvzvmNOI&hl&fmt=18
Sólstafir @ MySpace
www.youtube.com/v/AaKpvzvmNOI&hl&fmt=18
Sólstafir @ MySpace
Interview with Ólöf Arnalds by Free Williamsburg
I found a review of a show as well as a short Free Williamsburg interview with Ólöf Arnalds, with even a reference to Finnish music scene:
Last night, I was fortunate to check out the Ólöf Arnalds show at the Scandinavia house. I say fortunate because I had never had a chance to see the Icelandic songstress live and it was by far one of my favorite shows this year. The setting was intimate, and she used it to her advantage--engaging the audience many times by having us join in the chorus. She is definitely one to check out if you have a chance. While Arnalds has played four times this week, I am sure she will be coming back soon. Before the show, I was able to have Arnalds answer a few questions--from her place in music history as an Icelandic singer to her role as a musician during a tough economic climate.
FW: Can you give us a little background on your history as a musician? How long have you been solo?
OA: I had musical upbringing from 6 years old, learning violin, changing to singing lessons at 16, I quit music school at 21 and moved to Berlin, where I stayed for one winter and hung out with the Mum kids a lot, shortly after I moved home I started my studies in composition and new media at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, taking a one year break from my studies to tour with Mum. I graduated from the school in 2006 and while working with Skuli Sverrisson on his record "Seria" from 2006 I started making my own music and lyrics for my first album that came out in 2007.
FW: Do you think there is more freedom in the approach to the music when you are a solo artists? Which do you prefer more--the band environment or being a solo artist?
OA: I like doing both. What I like about playing solo is that you stand and fall entirely alone with your performance. But the musicians I collaborate with always teach me a lot and it's also nice to be able to share the experience of touring and playing.
FW: The music you play is light and airy like Vashti Bunyan as much as it also references contemporaries like Lau Nau and Kria Brekkan. What are your influences? Who do you feel are your musical colleagues?
OA: I find it impossible to pinpoint my strongest influence, I work from impulse, not from predecided ideas about sound of feel, so any influence I'm under is very indirect in my mind.
FW: The Nordic region has been churning out great music over the last few decades. Do you think their are regional similarities in different parts? What do you feel the vibe is in Iceland compared to other countries? Do you feel at all akin to the Finnish Freak Folk scene?
OA: Well, Icelanders and Finns have some special connection, especially in regards of their drinking habits! The good thing about the Icelandic scene is that it's very fluent in a way, things happen quickly and easily, everything is very spontanious, which is something that the Finns are not.
FW: You are playing a show with Björk on the 8th. What are your thoughts on her place in music history in terms of being an Icelandic musician? Do you feel that you "stand in her shadow" by being a female musician from Iceland?
OA: Not at all, I don't feel like my identity is that much about being icelandic. I just see myself as a artist trying to do my best in sharing my music with others. Björk is a fabioulus artist and I really look up to her, because she does things the way she wants to do them. That's very inspiring for me.
FW: What bands are currently exciting you? In Iceland and from other areas?
OA: I really like this young band from Iceland called Retro Stefson.
FW: Finally, while this is a little political, how do you think the economic crisis in Iceland affects you as a musician? Do you think it makes you want to move your music into being political?
OA: I'm not interested in putting my energy to much into politics. It's not my job. The way the economic crisis is affecting me at the moment is that I feel a strong urge not to be smothered by it. I think it's very important under these circumstances that artist keep their mind clear and creative, to keep up the good spirit.
Ólöf Arnalds @ MySpace
Old Video of Ólöf by Stuart Rogers (Iceairpodcast, now Gogoyoko)
"Klara"
www.youtube.com/v/D7IT_m_ImzY&hl&fmt=18
Source:
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/05/olof_arnalds.html
Last night, I was fortunate to check out the Ólöf Arnalds show at the Scandinavia house. I say fortunate because I had never had a chance to see the Icelandic songstress live and it was by far one of my favorite shows this year. The setting was intimate, and she used it to her advantage--engaging the audience many times by having us join in the chorus. She is definitely one to check out if you have a chance. While Arnalds has played four times this week, I am sure she will be coming back soon. Before the show, I was able to have Arnalds answer a few questions--from her place in music history as an Icelandic singer to her role as a musician during a tough economic climate.
FW: Can you give us a little background on your history as a musician? How long have you been solo?
OA: I had musical upbringing from 6 years old, learning violin, changing to singing lessons at 16, I quit music school at 21 and moved to Berlin, where I stayed for one winter and hung out with the Mum kids a lot, shortly after I moved home I started my studies in composition and new media at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts, taking a one year break from my studies to tour with Mum. I graduated from the school in 2006 and while working with Skuli Sverrisson on his record "Seria" from 2006 I started making my own music and lyrics for my first album that came out in 2007.
FW: Do you think there is more freedom in the approach to the music when you are a solo artists? Which do you prefer more--the band environment or being a solo artist?
OA: I like doing both. What I like about playing solo is that you stand and fall entirely alone with your performance. But the musicians I collaborate with always teach me a lot and it's also nice to be able to share the experience of touring and playing.
FW: The music you play is light and airy like Vashti Bunyan as much as it also references contemporaries like Lau Nau and Kria Brekkan. What are your influences? Who do you feel are your musical colleagues?
OA: I find it impossible to pinpoint my strongest influence, I work from impulse, not from predecided ideas about sound of feel, so any influence I'm under is very indirect in my mind.
FW: The Nordic region has been churning out great music over the last few decades. Do you think their are regional similarities in different parts? What do you feel the vibe is in Iceland compared to other countries? Do you feel at all akin to the Finnish Freak Folk scene?
OA: Well, Icelanders and Finns have some special connection, especially in regards of their drinking habits! The good thing about the Icelandic scene is that it's very fluent in a way, things happen quickly and easily, everything is very spontanious, which is something that the Finns are not.
FW: You are playing a show with Björk on the 8th. What are your thoughts on her place in music history in terms of being an Icelandic musician? Do you feel that you "stand in her shadow" by being a female musician from Iceland?
OA: Not at all, I don't feel like my identity is that much about being icelandic. I just see myself as a artist trying to do my best in sharing my music with others. Björk is a fabioulus artist and I really look up to her, because she does things the way she wants to do them. That's very inspiring for me.
FW: What bands are currently exciting you? In Iceland and from other areas?
OA: I really like this young band from Iceland called Retro Stefson.
FW: Finally, while this is a little political, how do you think the economic crisis in Iceland affects you as a musician? Do you think it makes you want to move your music into being political?
OA: I'm not interested in putting my energy to much into politics. It's not my job. The way the economic crisis is affecting me at the moment is that I feel a strong urge not to be smothered by it. I think it's very important under these circumstances that artist keep their mind clear and creative, to keep up the good spirit.
Ólöf Arnalds @ MySpace
Old Video of Ólöf by Stuart Rogers (Iceairpodcast, now Gogoyoko)
"Klara"
www.youtube.com/v/D7IT_m_ImzY&hl&fmt=18
Source:
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2009/05/olof_arnalds.html
mánudagur, júlí 20, 2009
Innipúkinn Music Festival: 30. July-2. August 2009
Tuborg present
INNIPÚKINN 2009
8. Edition
Verslunarmannahelgina @ Reykjavík
31. July - 2. August
Start 31. July @ 20:00
End 2. August @ 3:00
Places: Sódóma (previous Gaukurinn venue) & Batterý (Previous Organ venue) & Harbour areaINNIPÚKINN 2009
8. Edition
Verslunarmannahelgina @ Reykjavík31. July - 2. August
Start 31. July @ 20:00
End 2. August @ 3:00
Tickets @ Midi or Skífan Shop.
Price: 2900 IKR for 3 days
Bands playing:
Agent Fresco
Benni Hemm Hemm
Borko
Bróðir Svartúlfs
Dikta
Fallegir menn
FM Belfast
Gylfi Ægisson og Jóhanna Finnborg (GÆJÓ)
K-Trio
Mammút
Me the Slumbering Napoleon
Morðingjarnir
Ólöf Arnalds
Retrön
Seabear
Singapore Sling
Sudden Weather Change
Sykur
& more TBA
Interview with Björk in Grapevine Magazine (July 2009)
Just back home from a City Trip to Helsinki, the capital of Suomi Finland.Tonight I found a brand new interview with Björk in the latest Reykjavik Grapevine issue by Haukur.
Read it yourself @ A Conversation With Björk
About her next record, and past records:
G: Is this something you will employ on your next album?
B: Can you smell it? Yes, I am excited about this. It’s more complicated than pouring water around, of course, but all these programs are very exciting and bring with them the promise of a thousands unexplored possibilities.
G: What are you thinking in terms of the next record? Not so much in how it sounds, but in terms of themes, underlying concepts, emotional spectrum and ideas. I’ve experienced each of your records as examining certain concepts or thoughts, Volta being all screaming physical revolt, then you had Vespertine with its frail undertones of courtship and introspection...
B: Well, Vespertine was... I made it around the time I bought my first laptop. It was very exciting. Everyone was so depressed, talking about ‘THE END OF MUSIC’ and ‘music is doomed, what with all the downloading’ and I was just... ‘No, it’s not. You just need some imagination.’ It was partly inspired by that. There was a collection of instruments on the record that all sound very good when they’re downloaded – like the harp, glockenspiel and celesta – and all the voices were whispered instead of sung at full blast.
The soundscape was kind of virtual, more thought than physical. More mental and frozen. I decided: ‘OK, this world is not warm summer, it is a frozen winter. It’s cold, you turn off your body.’ In Vespertine, I made a record that you experience in a frozen state, from the cover artwork to the soundscape and all lyrics being about being in a pupal stage on a winter’s night. Hibernating. I was playing with that idea. It’s funny to think that in the year 2000, when I was making that record, people were acting very scared about the purported ‘end of music’. It’s always that same cliché. I liked turning it upside down.
And now of course, almost ten years later, there’s a whole lot of music out there being made that’s directly influenced by what downloads well. Music being made by people that have been for the last decade listening to mp3 files at their house, and now they’re making music out of them. There’s no real focus now on listening to Dolby Stereo at your house. The bitrate can be shitty for that matter, there’s no right way to listen to music. Anyway, I thought that work with Vespertine was equally exciting and challenging. And then Volta was a very different affair...
Up on the hill with a flag and a horn
G: So what are you thinking or contemplating right now that might be reflected on Volta’s follow-up?
B: My friend Gabríela [Friðriksdóttir, artist] is big on numerology. In the time leading up to Volta, she’d calculated that I was an eight, which means justice. I thought that was funny, especially since my dad is always working in the union movement and my mom has that gene in her... she went on hunger strike for eighteen days to try and stop the Kárahnjúkar dam from happening. So I thought it would be funny and humorous – although maybe no one but me gets the joke – to do a justice album, an EIGHT; up on the hill with a flag and a horn.
For the next record, if I can promise you anything about that, it’s that it will not be a justice record. It’s fun to run up the hill with a big flag, demanding justice, but it can be a tiring feeling in the long run. Trying to think you can tell others what’s right and what they need to do. It was fun for two years but now I am done with that. I liked it, though, the raw energy with the brass girls and the hooliganism. But now I have something different. I will say that I am excited about all the new programs and instruments we’ve been talking about.
FaMR, Rökkuró & Agent Fresco @ Sódóma Reykjavík 23. July 2009
Oki Doki presentFor a Minor Reflection, Rökkuró & Agent Fresco
Thursday 23. July @ Sódóma ReykjavíkStart @ 21:00
Admission: 500 IKR
www.Okidoki.isAdmission: 500 IKR
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
FaMR @ MySpace
Rökkuró @ MySpace
121. Song of the Week: Pís of Keik "Eg og Nonni"
Song of the 121. Week is an old one: "Eg og Nonni" of the band Pís of Keik.
miðvikudagur, júlí 15, 2009
On my way to Helsinki
I'm on my way to Helsinki for a short holiday.Back with more Icelandic music
21. July.
Meanwhile, here is The Rasmus with Björk's "Play dead".Music Alliance Pact (MAP) # 10 (July 2009)
15th of the Month: MAP time! You can download all songs @ once, go to the link @ the end of this post.
I've chosen the band Sudden Weather Change to be in the picture for Iceland this time. "Prey mode", a song of their Debut Album out on Kimi Records Label with the long title "Stop! Handgrenade In The Name Of Crib-Death 'nderstand".
ARGENTINA: ZonaindieMi PequeÒa Muerte La M˙sica Nueva
Mi PequeÒa Muerte means "my little death" so you're probably thinking this is not a particularly optimistic band. That was true for Hospital, their 2004 debut album, which was loaded with melancholic indie-rock tunes and moaning vocals. But this is 2009 and believe it or not, the band's third album is called Un Futuro Brillante ("a brilliant future"). Maybe that was just pure irony, but in this new effort they define themselves with shiny sounds and instruments, including horns and Moog synthesizers.
AUSTRALIA: Who The Bloody Hell Are They?Boat Beam The Rain Pauly
So it turns out that Josephine of Sparkadia is now in this gorgeously gentle folky trio in Madrid called Boat Beam, and they seem to be kinda popular (check their MySpace). How crazy is that? I could listen to The Rain Pauly for days.
BRAZIL: Meio DesligadoNancy Keep Cooler
Five-piece band Nancy have played just a few shows in Brazil and may be more well-known outside the country. They were the first Brazilian band on virtual label RCRD LBL and have been featured on BBC Radio's Introducing programme, showing their soft indie tunes. Nancy's members live in different cities and countries so the band's debut album, Chora Matisse!, was composed on the internet through emails and IM.
CANADA: I(Heart)MusicRah Rah I've Got Faith
When I had to submit my ballot for the Polaris Music Prize (think a Canadian version of the Mercury Prize), the one album that was toughest for me to leave off was Rah Rah's amazing Going Steady. As I've Got Faith shows, the band combine the best elements of Broken Social Scene (with the constant sense they're just barely keeping everything together) and Arcade Fire (in its epicness), with the end result being a sound that's all their own.
CHILE: Super 45Pedropiedra Sol Mayor
Pedro Subercaseaux has been involved with music for almost a decade. Having explored such diverse styles as cumbia, hip-hop, electronica, pop and rock, he has been part of several projects such as Hermanos Brothers, Tropiflaite, Yaia and CHC, gathering a good amount of success along the way. This year Subercaseaux has decided to release his debut solo album, under the moniker Pedropiedra, in which he demonstrates his great ability to craft catchy pop-oriented melodies.
DENMARK: All ScandinavianThe Works Live And Direct (featuring Jams F. Kennedy)
It's time to bring some urban tunes to all ye faithful readers of the Music Alliance Pact. Enter The Works aka producers Twelve Beats and Terry Tester, whom I stumbled across quite recently and whose intriguing fusion of hip-hop and electronica I haven't been able to shake off since. Minimalist, yet rich on details. Hardly moving, but always taking you places. Their debut release, Yokohama EP, is out now and streamed in full on their MySpace.
ENGLAND: The Daily GrowlFriendship The Graveyard Shift
Tired of indie bands showing off their 'African influences'? Well, get ready for one more, although this is done with a lot more bite, distortion and general sense of fun than most.
FINLAND: GlueNeufvoin Robot
Neufvoin are an up-and-coming indie band who create beautifully-arranged catchy pop melodies with guitars, synthesizer textures and a few other instruments. Apparently, they also like playing with bots and droids. Robot is taken from their debut Robokop EP, six songs produced by Rubik frontman Artturi Taira that journey many different musical landscapes.
FRANCE: ZikNationJessica Fichot Un, Deux, Trois (1,2,3)
Born in America to a French father and Chinese mother, chanteuse and songwriter Jessica Fichot was raised in France in a multicultural environment. She is a lot like her hometown of Paris: French at heart, but with a soul that's truly international. Her multi-ethnic upbringing colors the songs on her debut album.
GERMANY: BlogparteiBonaparte Gigolo Vagabundo
Bonaparte are a Berlin-based artist collective from all across Europe. Their sparkling weird-folk is powered by Balkan pace and electronic rhythms. Outfitted with crazy costumes, they are one of the most exciting German live acts around.
ICELAND: I Love Icelandic MusicSudden Weather Change Prey Mode
Sudden Weather Change are a five-piece rock band from Reykjavik who have been compared to Sonic Youth and Pavement. Prey Mode is taken from their debut album, Stop! Handgrenade In The Name Of Crib-Death 'nderstand, which came out in April on the Icelandic Kimi Records label and will be released in Europe and America in September.
IRELAND: Nialler9The Holy Roman Army Elegy
Ireland has already produced its fair share of amazing records so far this year and we can now add The Holy Roman Army's album to that list. How The Light Gets In is the brother and sister duo's debut and it's filled with ambient and electronic flourishes with an organic heart. Perhaps it's not a surprise they are a doctor and a psychologist respectively. Elegy is a perfect example of the band's yearning for something emotional between the city's streets.
ITALY: PolaroidIori's Eyes Anchor
Iori's Eyes are a boy and a girl from Milan who play gentle pop with a dreamy touch. Their music brings together a folk mood and a post-rock background. Their songs sound as fragile and delicate as little toys, but definitely know how to be surprising and poignant. Iori's Eyes just released their debut EP, And Everything Fits In The Yellow Whale, and I can't wait to listen to a proper album.
JAPAN: JPOP LoverLITE Ghost Dance
LITE are a Tokyo-based instrumental band who play experimental rock with striking, groove-heavy basslines. Formed in 2003, their spirit is similar to Mogwai, 65daysofstatic, Battles, Toe and Envy. In May, LITE visited America for the first time, going out on tour with legendary bass guitarist Mike Watt.
MEXICO: Club FonogramaHello Seahorse! Universo 2
Hello Seahorse! is the year's most acclaimed Mexican indie band. With their third album, Bestia, the trio have made the transition into a multi-dimensional group with a masterwork under their belt. Bestia shines in between ghosts and hazy sonic beauty, in a universe of its own, and proves Hello Seahorse! have total control over their romanticized and passionate, sublime creations.
NEW ZEALAND: Counting The BeatUrbantramper Southern Hemisphere Blues
Urbantramper are a five-piece from Wellington who are part of a loose collective known as Treeninja. The band produce introspective pop songs that reflect an endearing, naive angst about their place in the world. This is a group with a manifesto! They're currently considering issues of music distribution, copyright and the impact of these on the nature of the relationship between musician and audience. Urbantramper have a strong back catalogue and a new album due in September.
NORWAY: EardrumsSilverdrop Real Life
It's July, it's summer and it's time for some fresh and shiny indie-pop from Norwegian six-piece Silverdrop. These are definitely sounds for the sunny days and the band's new recordings are even more bouncy and energetic than the songs I've heard from them before. Silverdrop are currently working on their debut album.
PERU: SoTBFrancois Peglau Spring Lovers Song (Si T˙ Quieres)
Francois Peglau's songs do not need much explanation, they just happen. They are simple and beautiful - they could be borne from a whistle on a bus or a nice sunny day with friends. Francois moved to London two years ago and Spring Lovers Song (Si T˙ Quieres) is his most recent song.
PORTUGAL: Posso Ouvir Um Disco?Andrew Thorn ME Jane
Andrew Thorn is Jo„o Pedro Coimbra, a Portuguese composer/musician/producer and founder of the extremely successful duo Mesa. Andrew Thorn is Jo„o's way of exploring his creativity beyond Mesa's sound. The debut EP, Brutes On The Quiet, was released independently (Mesa is signed to Sony/BMG) on July 13 and ME Jane is the first authorized download by the artist and a MAP exclusive.
ROMANIA: Babylon NoiseMelting Carousel Several Other Universes
Melting Carousel are an indie-pop band from Timisoara with an eclectic approach, ranging from alternative pop to jazz.
SCOTLAND: The Pop CopMaple Leaves Easy Speak
Even though Glasgow's pedigree of producing twee, folky-pop bands (Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura) is strong, few have been as relentlessly joyous as Maple Leaves. With their dreamy girl-boy vocals and penchant for colouring their songs with flute, piano and acoustic guitar, Maple Leaves are guaranteed to put the spring into anyone's summer.
SINGAPORE: I'm Waking Up To...Force Vomit Liberator
Surfing and punk-rock in the city state of Singapore don't necessarily go hand in hand due to the lack of any noteworthy waves (both literally and metaphorically). Enter Force Vomit, the antithesis of Singapore's two shortcomings with their brazen brand of surf-punk that takes the piss out of Singapore's sanitized idiosyncrasies and semblance of normal life. Sounding like a Dick Dale number cut by switchblades, Liberator should easily find a place in a Tarantino film.
SOUTH KOREA: Indieful ROKDringe Augh Tutelar
Singer-songwriter Dringe Augh offers lovely songs full of lively guitar play. Over the years he has recorded several demos and his first official EP, Individually Wrapped, was released in June. On the new version of Tutelar, Dringe is accompanied by delightful female vocals from Eunjie Song of modern folk duo Sogyumo Acacia Band.
SWEDEN: SwedespleaseMAKTHAVERSKAN German Boy
I was stumbling around the net (MySpace in particular) and came across this band called MAKTHAVERSKAN. I have since learned they are signed to Luxury. Consider this your introduction to the new 'it' band from Gothenburg. They are agit-pop combined with post-punk and a little bit of Joan Jett tunefulness.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I Guess I'm FloatingSpanish Prisoners Kiss The Lawn Goodbye
Brooklyn's Spanish Prisoners, fronted by Leo Maymind, create fractured power-pop in the vein of The New Porno's Dan Bejar (Destroyer). They're currently working on a new album but in the meantime they've released a free three-song EP - download it here - from which Kiss The Lawn Goodbye is taken.
VENEZUELA: Barquisimeto MusicalGonzalo Teppa De Conde A Principal
Gonzalo Teppa is a musician, composer and a breathtaking double-bass player. Born in Barquisimeto, he has wowed audiences in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, USA, Colombia and Bolivia. Downbeat Magazine has selected him as solo artist of the year twice. De Conde A Principal is a version of an original work from Venezuelan composer Aldemaro Romero. It belongs to his latest work, ConTrabajos De Aldemaro.
To download all 26 songs in one file click here
þriðjudagur, júlí 14, 2009
Free Kimi Records Summer Album "Þrykkt í þrusið"
Kimi Records artists & friends are doing another Tour around the island this year. Þrykkt í þrusið: Free Summer Record of the year
You can download the songs for free @ Sumargledi
Songs on this Album are:
1. Ampeg! – Sudden Weather Change
2. Campo Viejo, 2004 – Reykjavík!
3. Átján og hundrað – Prins Póló
4. Senseni – Retro Stefson (FM Belfast Remix)
5. Summer all over – Skakkamanage
6. Drekar – Miri
7. Metanite – Sudden Weather Change
8. Now Or Never – Skakkamanage
9. Raining – Björt
10. Throne of Blood – Swords of Chaos
11. Random Acts – Reykjavík!
12. Nýtt líf – Létt á bárunni
13. Par Avion - FM Belfast (Retro Stefson Remix)
Kimi Records
Agent Fresco "Eyes of a Cloud Catcher" Weird Girls Project Official Video
Agent Fresco: The New Official Video
"Eyes of a Cloud Catcher": A Weird Girls Project Video
The Weird Girls Project - Episode 8: Kaleidoscope
Concept and Director: Kitty Von-Sometime
1st Assistant Director and Editor: Atli Viðar Þorsteinsson
Assistant Producer: Diljá Ámundadóttir
Director of Photography: Hrafn Garðason
Second Cameraman: Hrafn Jonsson
Lighting: Siggi Bahama and Geir Magnússon
Post Production: Greg Kruk and Sölvi Hrafn Ingimundarson
Head Runner: Fríða Einarsdóttir
Assistant Runners: Daníel Kári and Svana Gunnarsdóttir
Hair and Make up: Svanhvít Arnadóttir and Karen Wallington
Make up: Flóra Buenano, Berglind Rögnvaldsdóttir and Helga Sjöfn Kjartansdóttir
Costumes: Kitty Von-Sometime and Judy Wu
This was the largest production yet with 27 girls in the cast. The concept Kaleidoscope involved using the girls bodies to produce mirrored layouts and symmetrical graphics with choreographed moves directed for the first time only moments before each shot. It was the first episode to be filmed in a studio.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0I928ZVWpCo&hl&fmt=18
The Weird Girls Project
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
"Eyes of a Cloud Catcher": A Weird Girls Project Video
The Weird Girls Project - Episode 8: Kaleidoscope
Concept and Director: Kitty Von-Sometime
1st Assistant Director and Editor: Atli Viðar Þorsteinsson
Assistant Producer: Diljá Ámundadóttir
Director of Photography: Hrafn Garðason
Second Cameraman: Hrafn Jonsson
Lighting: Siggi Bahama and Geir Magnússon
Post Production: Greg Kruk and Sölvi Hrafn Ingimundarson
Head Runner: Fríða Einarsdóttir
Assistant Runners: Daníel Kári and Svana Gunnarsdóttir
Hair and Make up: Svanhvít Arnadóttir and Karen Wallington
Make up: Flóra Buenano, Berglind Rögnvaldsdóttir and Helga Sjöfn Kjartansdóttir
Costumes: Kitty Von-Sometime and Judy Wu
This was the largest production yet with 27 girls in the cast. The concept Kaleidoscope involved using the girls bodies to produce mirrored layouts and symmetrical graphics with choreographed moves directed for the first time only moments before each shot. It was the first episode to be filmed in a studio.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0I928ZVWpCo&hl&fmt=18
The Weird Girls Project
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
Jet Black Joe @ Sódóma Reykjavík 18. July 2009
Jet Black Joe
18. July 2009 @ 23:00
Sódóma Reykjavík
Admission: 1500 IKR
18. July 2009 @ 23:00
Sódóma Reykjavík
Admission: 1500 IKR
Amiina, Maggi, Kippi Kaninus & Seabear @ Bæjarbío, Hafnarfjörður @ 29. July 2009
Amiina & Maggi & Kippi Kaninus Seabear
Wednesday 29. July 2009
@ 20:30-00:00
@ Old Movie Theatre Bæjarbío, Strandgata 6, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
@ 20:30-00:00
@ Old Movie Theatre Bæjarbío, Strandgata 6, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
Seabear has been in the recording studio recently: a new Album is expected for January 2010. They haven's been on stage as Seabear since October.
Tickets: Presale @ 12 Tónar Record Shop downtown Reykjavik
Tickets: Presale @ 12 Tónar Record Shop downtown Reykjavik
Rafskinna # 3 Cocktail Party 15. July 2009
DVD Magazine Rafskinna # 3Endurskoðun/Reflections
Issue 3 Released
Wednesday 15. July 2009
@ 17:00-19:00
Cocktail Party
with Retro Stefson & DJ Árni Sveins
@ "Hjarta Reykjavíkur” (Hverfisgata & Laugavegur), Reykjavík
Retro Stefson Making a Music Video@ 17:00-19:00
Cocktail Party
with Retro Stefson & DJ Árni Sveins
@ "Hjarta Reykjavíkur” (Hverfisgata & Laugavegur), Reykjavík
In this magazine:
Ragnar Kjartansson @ New York
Emilíana Torrini @ Kópavogur
Finnbogi Pétursson
Curver Thoroddsen & Darri Lorenzen
Dälek
Previous issues were Rafskinna # 1 (Fiskur/Fish) & Rafskinna # 2 (Hús/House)
Rafskinna # 3 features: Animal Collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Casper Electronics, Friðrik Sólnes, FM Belfast, Goddur, Jukka Kärkkäinen, Karlotta Blöndal, Kolbeinn Proppé, Magnús Logi Kristinsson, Markús Þór Andrésson, Michael Madsen, Nico Muhly, Ólöf Arnalds, Psychic TV, Simon Bukhave, Þóra Fjeldsted, Þórhallur & Rúnar Magnússynir, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason
Trailer for Rafskinna 3 - Endurskoðun/Reflections from Rafskinna - DVD Magazine
Icelandic female singers News
Elíza Newman is working on a Second Album. Her "Ukelele song" is Nr. 1 on the Icelandic radio chart. This song is one of the songs on the Trúbatrix Collective (Icelandic all female singers collaboration) Album, and will also be put on her new album to be released this autumn. Elíza was the front lady of all-girl punk rock outfit Kolrassa Krókríðandi aka Bellatrix. Later on of the band Skandinavia. Her solo Debut Album was called "Empire Fall".Elíza @ MySpace
Hafdís Huld will release her Second Album too this year. Her Spiderman Song "Könguló" is out now. Her solo Debut Album was called "Dirty Paper Cup".
Hafdís Huld Website
Björk just released her Voltaic, but is also busy with a new album.
Björk's Official Webpage
mánudagur, júlí 13, 2009
Jagúar around Iceland in July
Jagúar 
Around the island in July
Around the island in July Just like the tourists, Jagúar is doing a clockwise tour around the island from 14-19. July.
Catch them if you can here:
15. July Krákan @ Grundarfjörður
16. July Edinborgarhúsið @ Ísafjörður
17. July Græni Hatturinn @ Akureyri
18. July LungA Festival @ Seyðisfjörður
19. July Útitónleikar @ Höfn
Jagúar @ MySpace
We Made God, Celestine, Muck & Actress @ Gamla Bókasafninu 13. July 2009
We Made God, Celestine, Muck & Actress
Monday 13. July
@ Gamla Bókasafninu @ Hafnarfjörður
Admission: 500 IKR
Start @ 20:00
Monday 13. July
@ Gamla Bókasafninu @ Hafnarfjörður
Admission: 500 IKR
Start @ 20:00
Song of the 120. Week: GusGus "Add this song"
A great Icelandic band is back with a 12" single "Add this song", of the 6th Studio Album of GusGus "24/7", to be released the 24. September 2009 on the Kompakt Label.Since 1995 one of the best Icelandic music export products.
The single was remixed by Patrick Chardronnet, Lopazz & Zarook, Gluteus Maximus & Klovn.
120. Song of the Week is the Remix by Germans Lopazz & Zarook.
Official GusGus Website
sunnudagur, júlí 12, 2009
Icelandic Music
Featuring KK, Bubbi Morthens, Nydönsk, Stuðmenn, Björgvin (Bó) Halldórsson, Rúnar Júlíusson & Hjálmar
www.youtube.com/v/wuYfvIuoCgs&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/wuYfvIuoCgs&hl&fmt=18
laugardagur, júlí 11, 2009
GusGus Live @ Palladium, Köln (1999)
GusGus on stage
"Acid Milk"
www.youtube.com/v/zp8OlWVJeWs&hl&fmt=18
"Ladyshave"
www.youtube.com/v/7xWE42T1p94&hl&fmt=18
GusGus Website
"Acid Milk"
www.youtube.com/v/zp8OlWVJeWs&hl&fmt=18
"Ladyshave"
www.youtube.com/v/7xWE42T1p94&hl&fmt=18
GusGus Website
LungA Festival, Two Day Music Festival 17 & 18. July 2009 @ Seyðisfjörður, East Fjords
Another Music Festival in the East Fjords of Iceland this summer:LungA
2009
@ Seyðisfjörður
Established 2006
Friday 17. July2009
@ Seyðisfjörður
Established 2006
Kimi Records Label Night @ 20:00 @ Herðubreið
Admission: 1.500 IKR (only sold @ the door)
Program:
Björt
Króna
Miri
Swords of chaos
Sudden Weather Change
Reykjavík!
Followed by a Party with DJ Magic aka Gísli Galdur (of Trabant & Motion Boys fame)Króna
Miri
Swords of chaos
Sudden Weather Change
Reykjavík!
Kimi Records
Saturday 18. July
Doors Open @ 20:30
Start @ 21:00
Concert End @ 3:00
Admission: 4.000 IKR (pre-sale @ MIDI) & 5.000 IKR @ Doors
Program:
Gus Gus Official GusGus Website
Jagúar Jagúar's Website
Mugison Mugison's Site
B.Sig B.Sig
Skakkamanage All about Skakkapopp/Skakkamanage
Jagúar Jagúar's Website
Mugison Mugison's Site
B.Sig B.Sig
Skakkamanage All about Skakkapopp/Skakkamanage
föstudagur, júlí 10, 2009
Rockabilly Ball @ Q-Bar 11. July 2009 @ 22:00
Rockabilly Ball @ Q-Bar
with
with
DJ Curver plays rockabilly @ 00:00
Admission: 1000 IKR
Götuhátíð @ Austurvöllur Square 10. July 2009 @ 15:00
A lot of music this afternoon @ Austurvöllur, the central square downtown Reykjavik for Götuhátíð Jafningjafræðslunnar: Anna Hlín, Bermuda, BMV, Haffi Haff, Bróðir Svartúlfs, Jón Ragnar Jónsson, Íris Hólm, Oddur Júlíusson, Ramses, Kicks, Sing for me Sandra & We went to Space. And you can play mini golf too.
fimmtudagur, júlí 09, 2009
ITN Interview with Hafdís Huld
Hafdís Huld interviewed by ITN
www.youtube.com/v/fPitIPHRneo&hl&fmt=18
Official New Hafdis Huld Website
www.youtube.com/v/fPitIPHRneo&hl&fmt=18
Official New Hafdis Huld Website
Emiliana Torrini @ Rock Werchter Festival (Belgium), July 2009
More Emiliana Torrini in Belgium. Interview & some footage of her stage performance.
Talking about reading a book about restaurants, family having Italian restaurants, missing a flight, no luggage, ...
www.youtube.com/v/SgZMNPKAqis&hl&fmt=18
Emiliana's Official Website
Talking about reading a book about restaurants, family having Italian restaurants, missing a flight, no luggage, ...
www.youtube.com/v/SgZMNPKAqis&hl&fmt=18
Emiliana's Official Website
"Taste of 2009": New Compilation Album of Icelandic music - Reykjavik! play @ Kaffibarinn
To celebrate the release of the compilation "Taste of 2009", the band Reykjavík! will play a gig 10. July @ Kaffibarinn @ 22:00 . Album compilated by Kaffibarinn with Kimi Records (related) and Bedroom Community artists. Assistence by Viking.
The Forteen Tracks are:
1. Nico Muhly - The only Tune pt. III
2. Reykjavík! - Kate Bush
3. Sing Fan Bous - Catch the Light
4. Beatlemania - Sudden Weather Change
5. Skakkamannage - Smell You Later
6. Saro - Sam Amidon
7. Ég á mér Fjársjóð - Pikknikk
8. Focal Point - Valgeir
9. Rauðlækur - Mammút
10. Silhouette Palette - Agent Fresco
11. Theory - Ben Frost
12. I Can Feel Love - FM Belfast
13. Hentu 'essu í mig - Æla
14. Sensení - Retro Stefson
The Forteen Tracks are:
1. Nico Muhly - The only Tune pt. III
2. Reykjavík! - Kate Bush
3. Sing Fan Bous - Catch the Light
4. Beatlemania - Sudden Weather Change
5. Skakkamannage - Smell You Later
6. Saro - Sam Amidon
7. Ég á mér Fjársjóð - Pikknikk
8. Focal Point - Valgeir
9. Rauðlækur - Mammút
10. Silhouette Palette - Agent Fresco
11. Theory - Ben Frost
12. I Can Feel Love - FM Belfast
13. Hentu 'essu í mig - Æla
14. Sensení - Retro Stefson
Kimi Records Summer Fun Tour - Start @ Paddy's @ Keflavík 15. July 2009
Kimi Records
Summer Fun Tour
@ Keflavík
For the second year, Iceland's most productive record label, Kimi Records is doing a Summur Tour. The Summer Fun Tour 2009's first stop is of course in Keflavík Rock City. Bands Reykjavík!, Sudden Weather Change & Swords of Chaos will come and play at the great Irish pup, Paddy's. Performing with them will be the fantastic Keflavík band, Hellvar. Hellvar is just back in town after doing 2 German gigs (Berlin, Weimar).Summer Fun Tour
@ Keflavík
The gig starts @ 20:00 with a light and fun pop quiz and entrance is 1500IKR.
Tour consists of 2 parts:
Part 1
Bands: Reykjavík!, Sudden Weather Change & Swords of Chaos
15. July: Paddy's, Keflavík (with Hellvar)
16. July: Pakkhúsið, Höfn á Hornafirði
17. July: Herðubreið, Seyðisfjörður (@ L.ung.A Festival - with Miri, Króna, Létt á bárunni, Prins Póló and Björt)
18. July: Kaupvangur, Vopnafjörður
19. July: Gamli Baukur, Húsavík
Part 2
Bands: FM Belfast, Sudden Weather Change, Skakkamanage & Miri
22. July: Kaffi 59, Grundarfjörður
23. July: Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður
24. July: Kaffi Síróp, Hvammstangi
25. July: Sódóma, Reykjavík (with Swords of Chaos)
All concerts @ 20:00
Admission: 1500 IKR
Before all concerts there will be a light and fun pop-quiz!
Ólafur Arnalds writes music for Wayne McGregor
Ólafur Arnalds is going to write music for British choreographer Wayne McGregor's play @ Royal English Ballet, London. Première in Oktober this year.
Ólafur Arnalds @ MySpace
Ólafur Arnalds @ MySpace
Björk's "Human behaviour" covered by Ifield Community College Choir
Ifield Community College Choir did a song by Björk @ Birmingham Town Hall, England on 7. July 2009
"Human behaviour" (song of "Debut" Album)
www.youtube.com/v/0XBlIiGezdc&hl&fmt=18
Björk's Official Website
"Human behaviour" (song of "Debut" Album)
www.youtube.com/v/0XBlIiGezdc&hl&fmt=18
Björk's Official Website
Agent Fresco Jazz Set @ Bankastræti 10. July 2009
Agent Fresco Jazz Set
10. July
@ Bankastræti (near Naked Ape), Reykjavik
12:00-14:00
The band Agent Fresco play for guests and pedestrians in the Icelandic summer breeze. Agent Fresco band members are: Hrafnkell Örn Guðjónsson (drums), Þórarinn Guðnason (guitar), Arnór Dan Arnarson (vocals) & Borgþór Jónsson (bass).10. July
@ Bankastræti (near Naked Ape), Reykjavik
12:00-14:00
They won Músiktilraunir 2008 (Icelandic Musical Experiments), received the Kraumur Award acknowledging their debut as one of the best releases of the year 2008 and received the "Best Newcomer" award at the Icelandic Music Awards 2008.
@ the moment working on their first Full Album.
They rock.
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
@ the moment working on their first Full Album.
They rock.
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
miðvikudagur, júlí 08, 2009
Emiliana Torrini has the First Icelandic No. 1 Hit in Germany, Austria & Belgium
Emiliana Torrini's "Jungle Drum" is the first Icelandic No. 1 Hit in Belgium, Austria & Germany.
Source: http://acharts.us/song/38337
The Lyrics
Hey, I’m in love,
My fingers keep on clicking to the beating of my heart.
Hey, I can’t stop my feet,
Ebony and ivory and dancing in the street.
Hey, it’s because of you,
The world is in a crazy, hazy hue.
My heart is beating like a jungle drum. (x 3)
Man, you got me burning,
I’m the moment between the striking and the fire.
Hey, read my lips,
Cause all they say is kiss, kiss, kiss.
No, it’ll never stop,
My hands are in the air, yes I’m in love.
My heart is beating like a jungle drum. (x 8)
Electro Remix
Official Website of Emiliana Torrini
Source: http://acharts.us/song/38337
The Lyrics
Hey, I’m in love,
My fingers keep on clicking to the beating of my heart.
Hey, I can’t stop my feet,
Ebony and ivory and dancing in the street.
Hey, it’s because of you,
The world is in a crazy, hazy hue.
My heart is beating like a jungle drum. (x 3)
Man, you got me burning,
I’m the moment between the striking and the fire.
Hey, read my lips,
Cause all they say is kiss, kiss, kiss.
No, it’ll never stop,
My hands are in the air, yes I’m in love.
My heart is beating like a jungle drum. (x 8)
Official Website of Emiliana Torrini
Rokk Festival Eistnaflug @ Neskaupsstaður, East Iceland 9-12. July 2009
There is more than 1 music festival in Iceland; there's also more than only the capital area. People know how to party around the island. Festivals are organised in the West, North and also in the East.
The Eistnaflug Heavy Rock/Metal Festival is in Neskaupsstaður in the East of Iceland.
Program for the 2009 Edition:
Thursday
17:55-18:35 Skítur
18:50-19:30 Muck
19:45-20:25 Ask the slave
20:40-21:20 Myra
21:35-22:15 Plastic Gods
22:30-23:19 Momentum
23:25-0:05 Actress
0:20-1:00 Celestine
Friday
15:15-15:45 BOB
16:00-16:30 Saktmóðigur
16:45-17:14 Swords of chaos
17:30-18:00 Forgarður Helvítis
18:15 -18:55 Svartidauði
19:10-19:50 Gone Postal
20:05-20:45 Changer
21:00-21:40 Andlát
21:55-22:35 Vicky
22:50-23:50 Sólstafir
0:05-1:00 Mínus
1:15-2:15 HAM
Saturday
15:15-15:45 Chino
16:00-16:30 Agent Fresco
16:45-17:15 Innvortis
17:30-18:00 Beneath
18:15-18:55 DYS
19:10-19:50 Disturbing boner
20:05-20:45 Mammút
21:00-21:40 Klink
21:55-22:35 Severed Crotch
22:50-23:50 Brain Police
0:05-1:00 Tyrant
1:15-3:00 Party
Tickets: MIDI or @ the Entrance
Festival 4900 IKR / 1-day ticket 3000 IKR
Eistnaflug 2009
The Eistnaflug Heavy Rock/Metal Festival is in Neskaupsstaður in the East of Iceland.
Program for the 2009 Edition:Thursday
17:55-18:35 Skítur
18:50-19:30 Muck
19:45-20:25 Ask the slave
20:40-21:20 Myra
21:35-22:15 Plastic Gods
22:30-23:19 Momentum
23:25-0:05 Actress
0:20-1:00 Celestine
Friday
15:15-15:45 BOB
16:00-16:30 Saktmóðigur
16:45-17:14 Swords of chaos
17:30-18:00 Forgarður Helvítis
18:15 -18:55 Svartidauði
19:10-19:50 Gone Postal
20:05-20:45 Changer
21:00-21:40 Andlát
21:55-22:35 Vicky
22:50-23:50 Sólstafir
0:05-1:00 Mínus
1:15-2:15 HAM
Saturday
15:15-15:45 Chino
16:00-16:30 Agent Fresco
16:45-17:15 Innvortis
17:30-18:00 Beneath
18:15-18:55 DYS
19:10-19:50 Disturbing boner
20:05-20:45 Mammút
21:00-21:40 Klink
21:55-22:35 Severed Crotch
22:50-23:50 Brain Police
0:05-1:00 Tyrant
1:15-3:00 Party
Tickets: MIDI or @ the Entrance
Festival 4900 IKR / 1-day ticket 3000 IKR
Eistnaflug 2009
þriðjudagur, júlí 07, 2009
Amiina in the Spotlight @ IMX
amiina - A noble Quartet
Sólrún, María, Edda and Hildur - the four Icelandic women in their mid twenties collectively known as amiina first decided they wanted to write music together in 2004. They gathered together every last instrument they could find and piled them into their car. They then filled every available bit of space with food.
This, they maintain, was a very, very important part of the process. But it was also very nearly the act that prevented the birth of amiina. Their overloaded car was unable to struggle up the steep mountainous incline to the studio they had chosen, and had a local farmer not towed them to their destination with his tractor amiina might never have come to be.
"Kurr", the bands debut album, named after the sound that birds are said to make in Iceland makes it clear that they have not learnt their lesson from this experience. amiina are the kind of band about whom it could be said, almost literally, that they employ pretty much everything but the kitchen sink.
And though it's true that they started with individually defined roles as a string quartet this was never going to be how they would set about making a record of their own. In amiina there are no specific assignments: no official bass player, drummer, guitarist or singer.
Before becoming amiina, the girls had been a collaborative string quartet with Sigur Rós. They recently began collaborating with two new male musicians – Kippi Kaninus and Magnús Trygvason Eliassen - and have worked with them to create the brand new "Re Minore" EP, some of which can be heard on their MySpace.
How did you girls get together in the first place - and what was the main motivation for forming?
We met in music college and started out as a classical string quartet. After working with Sigur Rós and other bands we found out how fun it is to create your own music so we wanted to try to make something together from scratch.
What have amiina been doing since the last album?
We toured a bit, we've been doing various fun projects and then we have also been making some new music, both as amiina and in collaboration with others. And of course living our lives too.
Has the line up changed or does it remain the same?
amiina is still us four girls, but we have been touring with a fantastic drummer, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, and now we are doing a collaboration with him and an electronic musician called Kippi Kanínus. The six of us have been making music and touring together. We just released a limited edition EP called "Re Minore", and hope to record a full-length album together in the near future.
The last album got major kudos - was that entirely unexpected or did you know you had something special?
Well...we didn't really know what to expect, but we had been touring a lot and knew that some people had been waiting for an amiina album for a while, so we were hoping that they would like it. It's hard to judge your own music, but as long as we are proud of what we make, we're happy.
When you set about writing the first album, how did you set about finding a direction or sound?
We didn't know where the music would take us. We didn't have a direction in mind. We just wanted to make an interesting world of sounds. Sometimes we have tried to push things in a decided direction but it never comes out that way. The music and our four different personal inputs take things in their own direction.
You toured a fair bit afterwards - what were the highlights?
To have the opportunity to play our music to loads of great people, getting feedback and feeling like it does make a difference to someone else than ourselves is great!
You've also been busy collaborating haven't you?
Yes, we are working with great people all the time. Right now we are doing a really fun collaboration with Kippi and Maggi, who are two very cool musicians. Kippi does electronics and Maggi is a drummer. We've been making new music together and plan on making loads more. Earlier this year we did a collaboration show with Shlomo (beatboxer) and Valgeir Sigurdsson at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. Last summer we toured with Sigur Rós to promote their album "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust". And last week we collaborated on a couple of songs in a concert with a Japanese artist called Shugo, a very talented guy, to name a few.
Icelandic Music Through Unconventional Means from Gemma Riggs on Vimeo.
What kind of music do you all dig collectively as a ‘band’?
The four of us don't really have the same tastes in music, or the same favourite artists. We don't listen to much music together or talk about music a lot. We spend more time talking about food and other stuff.
What are your biggest musical differences as individuals?
We all come from the same background, we all studied violins and cellos in college. There is probably not a huge difference between us, maybe some of us are better at chords than others.
You're releasing a new EP - what can you tell us about it?
The new EP is called "Re Minore" and is a collaboration between amiina, Kippi and Maggi. It's a taste of what is coming. We have been working a lot with them lately, the music we are making together is less soft and more rhythmic than what we have been doing before.
Is there work afoot on a new album?
We have some new amiina songs that we haven't recorded yet. Not sure when that will happen, hopefully soon. But now we are focusing on composing and recording a new album with Kippi and Maggi.
What other plans for 2009 do you have?
The main project is the collaboration with Kippi and Maggi, but we are also doing a small tour around Iceland just the four of us this summer. We want to play in lighthouses and beautiful spaces around the country. Then we will just have to see what happens in the fall.
What have been the career highlights for amiina to date?
Getting the opportunity to play our music for thousands and thousands of people supporting Sigur Rós was pretty cool! We played in the Hollywood Bowl and some other great places, that's definitely one of the highlights. Also getting to collaborate with Lee Hazlewood before he passed away was incredible.
Source: IMX Iceland Music Export
Upcoming gigs in Reykjavík in July 2009
Trúbatrix Night
with
Miss Mount, Elíza, Uni, Songbird, Halla Bóa & Elín Ey
@ Kaffi Cultura, Hverfisgata
9. July @ 21:00
Admission: 500 IKR
with
Miss Mount, Elíza, Uni, Songbird, Halla Bóa & Elín Ey
@ Kaffi Cultura, Hverfisgata
9. July @ 21:00
Admission: 500 IKR
Leaves
"We are shadows"
Release Concert
@ NASA
9. July
Support Act: Snorri Helgason
Admission: 500 IKR
"We are shadows"
Release Concert
@ NASA
9. July
Support Act: Snorri Helgason
Admission: 500 IKR
RAFMAGNAÐ PARTÝ
Tuborg present
Bloodgroup, Sykur, Jungle Fiction & Oculus
@ Sódóma Reykjavík, Tryggvagata
10. July @ 21:00
Free Concert
Free Tuburg Beer for People who are in first
Free Tuburg Beer for People who are in first
Grapevine & Gogoyoko present
Sin Fang Bous, Borko,
Hildur Guðnadóttir & Adda
Hildur Guðnadóttir & Adda
@ Grand rokk, Smiðjustígur 4
10. July @ 22:00
10. July @ 22:00
Admission: 1000 IKR
REYK VEEK 002
@ Jacobsen, Austurstræti
11. July @ 00:00
Admission : 500 ISK
The ground floor will host DJs and live acts and, for the first time under the REYK VEEK trademark, Axfjörð, DJ Thobbi & Captain Fufanu.
DJ Thobbi wil spin deep and smooth minimal tech-house
Captain Fufanu - probably the youngest and brightest hope of Icelandic electronic music- are known for their unique deep/dub/experimental live acts
Axfjörð, whom the lucky who got the VEEK001 disc in their hands do know, will play live his dreamy tech house.
The ground floor will also feature Oculus & Siggi Kalli going back to back on the decks, so who knows what they'll lead us into when the morning comes...
The underground floor will be handled by Karius & Baktus & Orang Volante to make sure you dance and sweat like they always manage to fulfill.
@ Café Rosenberg
11. July @ 21:00
Lay Low
@ Café Rosenberg
15. July
Admission: 1000 IKR
>> Start Ticket Sale @ MIDI on 8. July @ 10:00
>> Only 150 Tickets available!
@ Café Rosenberg
15. July
Admission: 1000 IKR
>> Start Ticket Sale @ MIDI on 8. July @ 10:00
>> Only 150 Tickets available!
mánudagur, júlí 06, 2009
New Jóhann Jóhannsson Album leaked over the Internet
"And in the endless pause, there came the sound of bees”, the new Album by Jóhann Jóhannsson has been leaked over the net.Source: Today's Fréttabladid Newspaper
Song of the 119. Week: Retrön's "Slow me"
119. Song of the Week is Retrön's Song "Slow me". This song was put on the band's Debut Album "Swordplay & Guitarslay", released tomorrow 7. July on Kimi Records Label.Retrön @ MySpace
sunnudagur, júlí 05, 2009
"Eyes of a cloud catcher" - The making of the Video for Agent Fresco by Weird Girls
The making of a video clip by Kitty Von Sometime/Weird Girls Project for the song "Eyes of a cloud cather" of band Agent Fresco, the Winner of Musical Experiments Competition/Musiktilraunir in 2008.
www.youtube.com/v/F4dgJpur1Fc&hl&fmt=18
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
www.youtube.com/v/F4dgJpur1Fc&hl&fmt=18
Agent Fresco @ MySpace
Who Knew Live @ Sódóma Reykjavík
Who Knew on stage @ Sódóma Reykjavík (May 2009)
"Sharpen the knife"
www.youtube.com/v/u_cN13xgduI&hl&fmt=18
Who Knew @ MySpace
"Sharpen the knife"
www.youtube.com/v/u_cN13xgduI&hl&fmt=18
Who Knew @ MySpace
161 Different Countries have visited this blog since September 2008
Since September 2008 people from 161 different countries brought a visit to this blog.
Icelandic music is popular in these countries:
Icelandic music is popular in these countries:
Top 20 of Visiting Countries:
World Domination or Death:
World Domination or Death:
Amiina & Shugo Tokumaru coverd "Video killed the radio star" @ Nordic House, Reykjavik 1. July 2009
Amiina & Shugo Tokumaru Live @ Nordic House (Norræna Húsið), Reykjavik "Video killed the radio star"
www.youtube.com/v/V8VxoJudmzg&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/tVXFnMEJli4&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/V8VxoJudmzg&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/tVXFnMEJli4&hl&fmt=18
Ólafur Arnalds Videoblog: Recording the drums
Óli Arnalds, drummer Kjartan Bragi Bjarnason of Kimono, producer Barði Jóhannsson (Bang Gang, Lady & Bird (duo together with Keren Ann) fame) in the recording studio.
www.youtube.com/v/hhWNSpkBuSQ&hl&fmt=18
Ólafur Arnalds @ MySpace
Barði Jóhannsson
www.youtube.com/v/hhWNSpkBuSQ&hl&fmt=18
Ólafur Arnalds @ MySpace
Barði Jóhannsson
Jónsi & Alex Somers on the Cover of Belgian RifRaf Magazine (July 2009)
Jónsi of Sigur Rós & his partner Alex Somers on the front of RifRaf Magazine (Photograph by Lilja Birgisdottir).An Album Review plus a short interview on the phone by Bram Vermeersch.
Talking about stop drinking coffee, baking chocolate cakes, and listening to vinyl albums of Billie Holiday & Belgian Django Reinhardt.
New Sometime Single "Heart of spades"
The band Sometime is going to re-release their Debut Album "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". They release a 2. Single taken from this album:
"Heart of spades"
www.youtube.com/v/iRoVUT5-Nas&hl&fmt=18
Sometime @ MySpace
"Heart of spades"
www.youtube.com/v/iRoVUT5-Nas&hl&fmt=18
Sometime @ MySpace
föstudagur, júlí 03, 2009
Amiina, Kippi Kaninus, Maggi & Þristurinn Live @ Biennale Venice 18. June 2009
Amiina & Kippi Kaninus & Drummer Maggi & Þristurinn Live @ Biennale Venice 2009 - Palazzo Michieli Dal Brusà 18. June 2009
www.youtube.com/v/sqDa4q1HVcQ&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/9iePqp_ib4A&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/sqDa4q1HVcQ&hl&fmt=18
www.youtube.com/v/9iePqp_ib4A&hl&fmt=18
Sing For Me Sandra, Ultra Mega Teknóbandið Stefán & Agent Fresco @ Sódóma Reykjavík Tonight
Sing For Me Sandra
Ultra Mega Teknóbandið Stefán
Agent Fresco
Ultra Mega Teknóbandið Stefán
Agent Fresco
3. July 2009
@ Sódóma Reykjavík
@ 22:00
Entrance Fee: 500 IKR
@ Sódóma Reykjavík
@ 22:00
Entrance Fee: 500 IKR
Free New Worm is green Song "The Silencer"
Worm is green is currently working on a New Album, to be released before the end of this year.
There is a free song on their Website. Get the song "The Silencer" here: Worm is green > Go to Playlist
fimmtudagur, júlí 02, 2009
Hafdis Huld Live @ Freebutt, Brighton 15. June 2009
Hafdis Huld @ Freebutt @ Brighton
"Ski Jumper"
www.youtube.com/v/soi4Hih78Mk&hl&fmt=18
"Homemade Lemonade"
www.youtube.com/v/G_XqaYGOp64&hl&fmt=18
"Kónguló"
www.youtube.com/v/Esk_5p4L96Q&hl&fmt=18
Hafdis Huld @ MySpace
"Ski Jumper"
www.youtube.com/v/soi4Hih78Mk&hl&fmt=18
"Homemade Lemonade"
www.youtube.com/v/G_XqaYGOp64&hl&fmt=18
"Kónguló"
www.youtube.com/v/Esk_5p4L96Q&hl&fmt=18
Hafdis Huld @ MySpace
Emiliana Torrini "Jungle Drum" Live @ Villa Vanthilt (TV1) 1. July 2009 / StuBru Interview with Emiliana @ Rock Werchter Festival 2. July 2009
Emiliana Torrini was a guest @ the Summer Show Villa Vanthilt with host Marcel Vanthilt (of Arbeid Adelt fame) @ Ghent.
She missed her plane, so she came without her clothes @ Sint-Pietersplein, Gent/Ghent.
She's wearing the dress of the girl who did the make-up.
Notice Siggi Baldursson on drums.
"Jungle Drum"
www.youtube.com/v/aDlobVnE2LI&hl&fmt=18
Here with the introduction (interview), about her name, her Italian roots, her CD "Me and Armini"
www.youtube.com/v/XmbbH4GcIZg&hl&fmt=18
Interview with Emiliana @ StuBru Radio Station @ Rock Werchter Festival
www.stubru.be/node/96057#comments
Emiliana's Official Website
She missed her plane, so she came without her clothes @ Sint-Pietersplein, Gent/Ghent.
She's wearing the dress of the girl who did the make-up.
Notice Siggi Baldursson on drums.
"Jungle Drum"
www.youtube.com/v/aDlobVnE2LI&hl&fmt=18
Here with the introduction (interview), about her name, her Italian roots, her CD "Me and Armini"
www.youtube.com/v/XmbbH4GcIZg&hl&fmt=18
Interview with Emiliana @ StuBru Radio Station @ Rock Werchter Festival
www.stubru.be/node/96057#comments
Emiliana's Official Website
Rökkurró Cover #3: "Daniel" (Bat for lashes)
Rökkurró did another cover, this time
"Daniel", Bat for lashes original
www.youtube.com/v/JtinT9TXWIY&hl&fmt=18
Rökkurró @ MySpace
"Daniel", Bat for lashes original
www.youtube.com/v/JtinT9TXWIY&hl&fmt=18
Rökkurró @ MySpace
miðvikudagur, júlí 01, 2009
Sudden Weather Change "1.6 Facilitate Access"
Sudden Weather Change @ Smiðjustígur 4
"1.6 Facilitate Access", a video by Gogoyoko. Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers, sound recorded by Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson (of Retro Stefson fame) and mix by Benjamin Stacey.
A song from their Debut Album "Stop! Handgrenade in the Name of Crib Death 'nderstand?", released on Kimi Records Label this year. More @ Gogoyoko
www.youtube.com/v/y5CAt_eOfFU&hl&fmt=18
Sudden Weather Change @ MySpace
"1.6 Facilitate Access", a video by Gogoyoko. Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers, sound recorded by Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson (of Retro Stefson fame) and mix by Benjamin Stacey.
A song from their Debut Album "Stop! Handgrenade in the Name of Crib Death 'nderstand?", released on Kimi Records Label this year. More @ Gogoyoko
www.youtube.com/v/y5CAt_eOfFU&hl&fmt=18
Sudden Weather Change @ MySpace
Emiliana Torrini on Belgian (Flemish) TV Tonight @ Villa Vanthilt
Tonight Emiliana is a guest in the Villa Vanthilt Summer Show on TV1 (Flemish Channel). On Friday she'll be on stage tomorrox @ 17:35 @ Marquee stage @ the Belgian Rock Werchter Festival.
Bonus:
Not only Hellvar has a German link, Emiliana talking German on RTL Punkt 9 (24. June 2009):
Bonus:
Not only Hellvar has a German link, Emiliana talking German on RTL Punkt 9 (24. June 2009):
Hellvar Live @ Berlin & Weimar, Germany 4 & 6. July 2009
Hellvar is playing 2 gigs abroad:
4. July @ Subversiv, Berlin-Mitte
6. July @ Haus für Soziokultur, Weimar
They played this new song last year @ Kimi Evening @ Airwaves 2008
"Falsetto", a song for their 2. Album
www.youtube.com/v/_C1Jj4BATE8&hl&fmt=18
Hellvar @ MySpace
4. July @ Subversiv, Berlin-Mitte
6. July @ Haus für Soziokultur, Weimar
They played this new song last year @ Kimi Evening @ Airwaves 2008
"Falsetto", a song for their 2. Album
www.youtube.com/v/_C1Jj4BATE8&hl&fmt=18
Hellvar @ MySpace
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