Singer/Songwriter. 
Originally from Leeds, living in London.

Born in Oslo, Norway, in 1979, Maria Jardardottir is a performing and composing voice musician and producer educated with a Bachelor and Master Degree in Jazz and Contemporary Music from Leeds College of Music, UK, currently working free lance with international engagements. Through her education and in her work she has kept a strong focus on creative composition, improvisation and extended voice techniques, Indian Classical music (Dhrupad), world music and electro acoustic performance and composition. Maria is a founding member of the a cappella group Røyst Trio with whom she has toured internationally since 2003. She is also currently composing for and performing with the collaboration between Røyst Trio and jazz-folk ensemble Metamorphic as well as world-music band Unfurl and jazz-improv-folk trio Motherese. Maria has had her music performed at international venues and festivals such as: Moldejazz, Henie-Onstad Arts Centre (NO), Roskilde Festival, Dansescenen (DK), Musicians Institute (Hollywood), Scandinavia House and Bar Thalia (New York), Scandinavian Hjemkomstfest (Fargo), Rainbow Bistro (Ottawa), Gallery BBAM! (Montreal), Lula Lounge (Toronto) and Hamilton World Music Festival (Hamilton), Transformarte (Tijuana), Göttingen Jazz Festival, Apex (Göttingen), Nordischer Klang Festival (Greiswald), Theaterlabor (Bielefeld). Harare International Festival of Arts (ZI), Independent Dance/Siobhan Davies Studios, London Contemporary Dance School, The Place, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Vortex (London), The Voicebox (Derby) and The Riley Theatre, Seven Arts (Leeds). Her work has also been played on BBC Radio 3 and 4, Norwegian NRK, Irish RTÉ as well as various radio and TV channels in Germany, Mexico and USA.

Unfurl fuses Indian rag based music with Arabic rhythms as well as harmony and tone from jazz and folk into a cinematic sound that is world music.

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I like to write songs and make up funny stuff. Please feel free to check out my songs and recordings, all tracks are written and recorded by me.

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My compositions aim to a dark-spiritual environment, or to light and bright
emotions, searching for an intimate connection with the listener.
My music essentially has two main emotional directions: toward the inside,
exploring the human being feelings, or above the listener, looking for a
spiritual element, without any link to religion but simply aiming to go
beyond the physical and natural limits of humans.
I have been practicing classical piano for more than 20 years, and
contemporary/jazz singing for 10; I started composing music
for short movies in 2017 and I am actively using many platforms,
such as YouTube, SoundCloud and Spotify with covers, personal
projects and so on.

Listen to music with your soul. Do you not feel an inner being awakening within you? It is for him that your head and arms rise. It is for him that you walk, slowly, towards light.

Contact/Booking/Remix Stems :   fluizemusic@gmail.com

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