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    Mixtape #59 : Best Albums of 2020

    by 5:4 January 1, 2021 • 07:45
    January 1, 2021 • 07:45

    A very Happy New Year to you all! As always, i want to begin 2021 by thanking all of you around the world who have followed and supported 5:4 during the last year, most especially and above all to my growing number of esteemed and beloved Patrons. i don’t think …

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    Best Albums of 2020 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2020 • 00:00
    December 30, 2020 • 00:00

    i’m sure i’m not alone in being somewhat impatient to see the back of 2020. It’s been a horribly testing and demoralising year, and of course there’ll be some way to go into 2021 (and likely beyond) before life starts to settle into whatever version of ‘normal’ eventually prevails. But …

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    Páll Ragnar Pálsson – Atonement

    by 5:4 May 22, 2020 • 13:10
    May 22, 2020 • 13:10

    One of the first works of contemporary music that i ever got to know was Dérive 1 by Pierre Boulez. i fell for the piece pretty hard, and one of the main reasons for that infatuation – which hasn’t really subsided in the decades since – was the way Boulez …

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    Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir – Vernacular; Siggi String Quartet – South of the Circle; Iceland Symphony Orchestra – Concurrence

    by 5:4 January 17, 2020 • 11:17
    January 17, 2020 • 11:17

    In just over a week’s time Iceland’s premier new music festival, the Dark Music Days, will be up and running again, and once again i’ll be heading off to Reykjavík to immerse myself in some of the goings-on. Details about the festival can be found here, and for any UK …

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    Dark Music Days 2019: Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Yrkja

    by 5:4 February 7, 2019 • 13:41
    February 7, 2019 • 13:41

    Judging from the way it’s usually discussed, you’d be forgiven for thinking that – overwhelmingly inspired by the country’s uniquely dramatic combination of earth, water, ice and fire – Icelandic music was all about, and only about, nature. It’s therefore interesting, in hindsight, to note that it wasn’t until the sixth …

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