In recent years i’ve been increasingly impressed at the amount of radical musical invention coming out of Iceland. Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Hekla Magnúsdóttir, Áki Ásgeirsson, Þóranna Björnsdóttir, Bára Gísladóttir, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Davíð Brynjar Franzson, Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir, Ingibjörg Ýr Skarphéðinsdóttir, Sóley Stefánsdóttir – these are just some of the composers …
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Tension, climax, release. That’s not simply familiar but one of the most fundamental progressions we encounter in all forms of art. So it’s been fascinating to hear how Lithuanian composer Justina Repečkaitė sidesteps and reconfigures this most basic dramatic contour repeatedly on the first album devoted to her music, Tapestries. …
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There’s a striking image i vividly recall from when i first watched David Attenborough’s The Private Life of Plants. It featured time-lapse photography, focusing on a small, seemingly insignificant tendril lying on the ground. Through this simple act of televisual time dilation, we were able to cross the relativistic divide …
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It’s a sign of the trust that i have in Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir‘s music that, when she sent me her new album Skinweeper a few months back, i dropped everything and just pressed play. No prep, no note-reading, i didn’t even look at the track titles; i just wanted to listen, …
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There’s usually a fairly clear correlation for me between the duration of an album and the amount of listening required before i feel i’ve begun to make sense of it. Not quite so simple as ‘short albums = shorter time, long albums = longer’, though that’s perhaps basically true. But …
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