In her liner notes, Dr. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir describes that due to low prices after the financial crass of 2008, artists poured into cheap housing in downtown Reykjavik, beginning an aesthetic era tainted by uncertainty, anger and high ideals.
During this era, a group of eccentrics fabulated an entirely new civilization spawned from experimental cultural practices. Within S.L.Á.T.U.R., this was most often embodied in musical––as well as sometimes in visual and somewhat theatrical––performances centering around animated notation and video scores, found objects, and home–made or heavily prepared instruments.
Whole new artistic languages evolved from these limited means, developed through an extreme frequency of events and constantly evolving collaborations. Building on these experiments, Guðmundur Steinn has forged an eccentric world of his own, continually polishing his taste for the unimposing and… more
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All tracks performed by Fengjastrútur
On this day Fengjastrútur line-up consisted of:
Björn Davíð Kristjánsson: flute and ocarina
Þórunn Björnsdóttir: tenor recorder and ocarina
Páll Ivan frá Eiðum: tenor recorder and ocarina
Andrés Þór Þorvarðarson: percussion
Gunnar Grímsson: percussion
Ásthildur Ákadóttir: percussion
Svanur Vilbergsson: plucked strings,
microtonal harmonica, and samba whistle
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir: plucked strings,
microtonal harmonica, and samba whistle
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson: plucked strings,
microtonal harmonica, and samba whistle
Recorded on March 10th 2019 in Masterkey Studios,
Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Produced by Jesper Pedersen and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Recorded by Jesper Pedersen with assistance from Sturla Mio Þórisson and Katrín Helga Ólafsdóttir
Mixed and Mastered in Tónverið by Jesper Pedersen with Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Design and art direction by Sam T. Rees
All music composed by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Special thanks: Katelin Parsons, Selma Parsons, Þorlákur Benjamín Guðmundsson, Carrier Records, Söngskólinn í Reykjavík, Andreas Ramon og Sangitamiya, Áki Ásgeirsson, Mengi and all collaborators, can’t thank you enough.
The piece is dedicated to the memory of Ana-Maria Avram
© & p Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson 2020
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