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Jóhann Jóhannsson – Drone Mass

Benedikt Reynisson — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:22:46 +0000

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Gyða – Evolution

einar_orn — Thu, 20 May 2021 13:10:36 +0000

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María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir – Kom vinur

Benedikt Reynisson — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:23:45 +0000

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (b. 1980) is a composer and a violinist.

She graduated as a violinist from the Reykjavik College of Music in 2000 and with a Bachelor’s degree in composition from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2007.

Maria is a member of the band amiina from 1999. amiina has released and recorded several albums and performed their music around the world as well as collaborated with various artists.

With amiina, Maria was a touring member and collaborator of Sigur Rós from 2000-2008.

Maria has composed music for orchestras, various sized ensembles, choir, choreography and films.

Maria’s compositions have been recorded and released internationally. Clockworking, Sleeping Pendulum, Aequora, Spirals, Loom and Oceans all have been released on the US label Sono Luminus.

1. Kom vinur (5:40)
2. Maríuljóð (3:55)

Total Time: (9:35)

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Gyða – Epicycle II

Benedikt Reynisson — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:15:46 +0000

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Gyða – Epicycle

einar_orn — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:41:28 +0000

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Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Concurrence

einar_orn — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:53:20 +0000

Pure Audio Blu-ray audio options: 5.1 DTS HD MA 24/192kHz, 9.1 Auro-3D 24/96kHz, 2.0 LPCM 24/192kHz, 11.1 Dolby Atmos 24/48kHz.

Can you hear a country in its music? I posed that question only a few years ago, while contemplating the five recent orchestral works by leading young Icelandic composers that comprised Recurrence, the previous volume of this invaluable, illuminating Sono Luminus series. Pondering those pieces with a visit to Iceland still vivid in my mind’s eye, I likened aspects of the music at hand to elements of land and sky, climate and atmosphere—an approach not without merit, but surely not the sole dimension worth contemplating.

Tracklist

BD-1 Metacosmos
BD-2 Piano Concerto No. 2
BD-3 Oceans
BD-4 Quake
CD-1 Metacosmos
CD-2 Piano Concerto No. 2
CD-3 Oceans
CD-4 Quake

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Tobias Guttmann | Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson ‎– Dualism

Benedikt Reynisson — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:33:26 +0000

Six compositions by composers, five of the Icelandic and one from Finland.

Total: 50,04 minutes

Tracklist

1. Bois Chantant (Áskell Másson)
2. 337″ (Áki Ásgeirsson)
3. Brainstorm In A Glass Of Water (Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson)
4. Karkija (Antti Auvinen)
5. The Indigenous Spirit
6. Opna

Recorded at Gewerbepart Anif 15-18.07.07, Austria.
Recorded By – Digital Natural Sound

Sponsored by STEF / Reykjanesbær / Tónlistarsjður

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