Name: Hemipode by amiina
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: amiina's first release; EP released in 2004

Kurr is the first full length record from the icelandic band amiina. Released in 2007.

“In the way that the Cowboy Junkies' classic album The Trinity Session arrived in the
midst of all the pre-grunge noise and clatter at the death of the 1980s, it almost feels
as if there's something quietly revolutionary about this gently overwhelming record.
Either way, a revelation.”
David Peschek, The Guardian

“Utterly original and deceptively relaxing, Kurr is the fullest-sounding minimalist
electro pop you’ve ever heard.”
Chris Whibbs, Exclaim!

“Kurr is a gently rippling stream of enigmatic moods and textures.”
Paul Sullivan, bbc.co.uk

“Whatever the permutations, Amiina's fragile magic can't fail to beguile.”
David Sheppard, BBC Collective

Kolapot

amiina's first release; EP released in 2004

Hemipode

My heart goes out to everyone in Japan that recently experienced this terrible earthquake. I wrote improvised this song as a way to deal with the emotions I felt upon waking up and seeing these incredible images.

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Goldmund - Nihon

From album "Songs of Time Lost"
Out on:
25/08 : France  (vinyle : 01/09)
16/09 : Canada (Select/Naive)
14/10 : USA (6 Degrees)
10/11 : UK (Harmonia Mundi UK / Naive)

Album out now:
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Using voice, guitar and cello - and in a variety of languages from English to Neapolitan dialect and Creole - the album brings together original compositions, traditional songs and some covers.

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30.09.14	PARIS (75) / Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
10.11.14	ALENCON (61) / La Luciole
13.11.14	CHOLET (49) / Les Z'Eclectiques - Chapelle St Louis
14.11.14	BAYONNE (64) / Scène Nationale 
15.11.14	ROCHEFORT (17) / Théâtre
16.11.14	LONDRES (Uk) / Royal Festival Hall
18.11.14	MERS LES BAINS (60) / Picardie Mouv - Cinema 
20.11.14	ARRAS (62) / Théâtre
21.11.14	NANTES (44) / Eglise Saint André de Rezé
22.11.14	QUESTEMBERT (56) / L'Asphodèle
23.11.14	MORLAIX (29) / Espace du Roudour
27.11.14	VALENCE (26) / Théâtre
28.11.14	LYON (69) / Temple 
29.11.14	ANNONAY (07) / Chapelle Sainte Marie
01.12.14	PARIS (75) / Café de la Danse
02.12.14	ANTIBES (06) / Anthéa
17.04.15	CHATEAUVALLON (83) / CNCDC
19.05.15	LOIRON (53) / Théâtre des 3 Chênes

Piers Faccini and Vincent Segal - Everyday Away From You

a lot of melodic sounds - the magic words of the old story teller

The Magic Of Telling Old Stories

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh 
© 2016 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2016 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet
Recorded March 2016 at Studio Trilogy, San Francisco, CA
Engineered and mixed by Laura Dean
Assistant Engineer: Noah Killeen
Production Assistant: Minna Choi
Mixed at Women's Audio Mission, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Mixing Engineers: Victoria Fajardo, Ashley Green, Aimee Hamel, Becca High, Masha Persay, Maryam Qudus

Rəqs (Dance)

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh - Rəqs (Dance)

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Endless

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Borrowed

The Lighthouse Project - released June 2013

Hilli (Lighthouse version)

from The Lighthouse Project - Released June 2013
Song by Lee Hazlewood - arrangement by amiina

Leather and Lace

Haingeraide

Here I Am

amiina is a band based in Reykjavík Iceland. At present the band counts five people - Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson (aka Kippi Kaninus).
The group's origins go back to the late 1990s, when four girls studying string instruments at the Reykjavík College of Music formed a string quartet. The group started out playing classical music, but increasingly moved on to play all sorts of music with various bands in Reykjavík.
In 1999 the quartet joined Icelandic band Sigur Rós on-stage. The collaboration continued for over a decade, with amiina contributing strings to Sigur Rós’ music on tour and in the recording studio on the albums ( ) , Takk, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust and Valtari.
In 2004, amiina’s first EP, AnimaminA, was released, followed by the single “Seoul” (2006), the full-length album Kurr (2007), a Lee Hazlewood collaboration on a 7” vinyl Hilli (at the Top of...) (2008) and the limited release EP Re Minore (2009). In the autumn of 2007, drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen joined amiina on tour, adding percussion to the band’s textures. A few months later, collaboration between the electronic artist Kippi Kaninus and amiina was established while preparing a show together for the Reykjavík Arts Festival. The merging of Kippi Kaninus' electronics and rhythms with amiina's sounds and Magnús' percussion became the starting point for more established collaboration between the six musicians.
amiina’s second long playing album, the much acclaimed Puzzle, was released by the band in 2010 in Iceland, getting worldwide distribution the following year. The songs on Puzzle are more rhythmically rugged than amiina's previous work and feature heavier use of electronics. amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues.
In 2009 amiina started to perform their original soundtracks to pioneering German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's 1930's silhouette animations of the timeless fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Aladdin. The so called Animagica program, originally performed at the Branchage film festival in Jersey, has now been put on show at Art festivals around the world.
The band released The Lighthouse Project in 2013, a work centered around some performances given in Icelandic lighthouses.
In between work with amiina and growing ever larger families, band members have also kept themselves busy, recording or touring with other artist such as Sigur Rós, Yann Tiersen, Spiritualized, Efterklang, Damien Rice, Yukihiro Takahasi, Canon Blue, Pétur Ben, Ben Forst Tilbury, Borko, múm, Jónsi & Alex, Kippi Kaninus, adhd, Moses Hightower and Sin Fang to name a few.

amiina's new album - Fantômas - will be released in November 2016. The release is inspired by the 1913 film Fantômas 2, which amiina is currently touring with an original live score.

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