Valgeir Sigurðsson
Kvika
“… a sound to get lost in […] shimmering above the earth, fleeting and momentary…”
Searching for Daníel Bjarnason
Gyda Valtysdottir
Mikros (by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir)
A collection of neo-classical compositions featuring music by Iceland’s leading contemporary composers.
Atli Örvarsson
Dropar (feat. Gyða Valtýsdóttir)
I always said that there was something in the water, up there, in the Nordic island country of Iceland…
Why Barbican is at the top of my list…
Having moved from New York to London a year ago, I’ve been amazed at the difference …
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Lambert, Manos Milonakis and Niklas Paschburg
Iceland Symphony Orchestra Recurrence This morning I’m waking up with a gorgeous contemporary classical release by …
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason
Music for Sólaris (presented by Barbican)
Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Its “philosophical” aspect has …
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Dissonance
Valgeir Sigurðsson may not be a widely recognizable name among the purveyors of ambient, experimental, and …
Tilman Robinson
Deer Heart
It is almost inevitable that sometime during this review I would bring up names like Ben Frost, …
Interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir
I spend a lot of time dreaming internally on the music at the initial stages of …
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Aerial
Samples and samplers are getting so sophisticated that the casual listener might not even distinguish sampled …