There will be a release concert for my album Stífluhringurinn with the Caput Ensemble in Harpa, Reykjavík on September 4th (2024).
The album came out on Carrier Records on June 21st 2024 and has recieved warm receptions, which I’m thankful for – it took a long time to make and during the height of covid and everything it was not obvious if it would ever see the light of day.
Some reviews include:
“This is very beautiful music, sitting with poise and purpose, bending meter, pitch, intonation and tempo without actually demanding that much from its listeners. It is a very easy world to fall into, and a rich one in which to spend time.” -Johny Lamb for The Quietus (where it was also Album of the Week around the time when it came out.
In the same outlet the album was selected as 26th of the 100 best of the year thus far.
“Irreducible and magical” -Steve Smith for Night after Night
“… you have to put aside preconceptions and immerse yourself in a sound world containing music like no other” -Robert Hugill for Planet Hugill
“It’s a living, mercurial work in which the independent forces compete or coexist to create a gestalt form that exists in the listener’s mind, ephemeral but indelible.” -Ben Harper for Boring Like a Drill
See also interview on Rúv English and review in Norwegian on Salt Peanuts.
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