He can retire after this masterpiece. He's contributed to society more with the emotions that awaken from this one song than most could hope to contribute in a lifetime.

Jesus Christ! What even is this sorcery?!

Dark Vibes

Meaning - Cascadeur Choral - Cover (Lupin version)

Played live on this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLLvTrmBtE


Muse - The 2nd Law - Isolated System [Piano Cover]

The Danish-born Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel landed a pan-European hit with her disarmingly beautiful debut album ‘Philharmonics’. After seven weeks at #1 in Denmark and hitting the Top 10 in both France and the Netherlands, the deluxe double CD version of the album will be released in the UK on May 2nd on Play It Again Sam.

Entirely self-produced and performed, ‘Philharmonics’ opens with the instrumental piano piece ‘Falling, Catching’ which sets the tone for Obel’s classically inspired songwriting. The next track, ‘Riverside’, flows with a depth of emotion embedded with further character by Obel’s love of combining her sweet melodies with carefully considered lyrics that evoke the song’s innate sound. ‘Just So’ works a similar trick, its blend of melancholy and optimism perfectly encapsulated into the opening line ‘Black turns beat me bright.’ Elsewhere, with ‘On Powdered Ground’, ‘Brother Sparrow’ or her interpretation of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch’, she melds different moods and atmospheres, all indelibly linked by the brittle majesty of her music.

The deluxe edition of the album adds a second CD featuring six tracks recorded at Obel’s recent acclaimed residency of sold-out shows in Copenhagen and five instrumental piano performances.

As a child, Obel was subconsciously guided into music by the influence of her mother and father, who would play and listen to a blend of the classical greats, folk music like Jan Johansson and the timeless sounds of Roy Orbison. After discovering the likes of Portishead and Elliott Smith as a teenager, she began writing her own piano-based songs, but it wasn’t until she moved to Berlin in 2006 that she began recording an album.

Many of the songs on ‘Philharmonics’ have subconsciously found an audience through their use in film and television. ‘Just So’ soundtracked a Deutsch Telekom advert, which gave Obel the unusual combination of having a song that everyone knew while having almost no profile as an artist herself. But soon opportunities presented themselves and continue to do so. One of Obel’s earliest breaks came when three of her demos featured in cult director Thomas Vinterberg’s film Submarino – ‘Riverside’ earned her a Robert Award (Denmark’s equivalent of the Oscars) for Best Song of the Year. Her music also reached a bigger North American and international audience when ‘Riverside’ was used in Grey’s Anatomy.

iTunes extended Obel’s profile further by requesting an exclusive release of ‘Philharmonics’ and highlighting Obel on the home page of their North American website. The attention of the press has been consistently positive with Vogue and culture magazine Telerama producing in-depth features in France, while Obel will also feature in both the North American and European issues of TIME.

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Agnes Obel - Riverside (Lulu Rouge Remix)

KARMA

I was so pure when I crossed your way
That anybody could see my sanctity

I remember, the first time I saw you
It was in May, on a Saturday

The sky suddenly
Became so grey
It was scary

A thunder hit
So close to me
It was pretty

You took my hand, very slowly
And you told me « Come on. Follow me"

We climbed the hills, the whole day long
And at the top, you showed me a valley

"There is your land.
Oh can’t you see how filthy it is?"

"Your purity 
Is an illusion.
You too are dirty"

The wind suddenly, pushed the clouds away
And a ray of sun shone down right at me

I saw her face as it was really
A dark devil was taunting me

I closed my eyes, so suddenly
That I broke the spell put before on me

And I started to rise away from thee
I felt so pure back to sanctity.


Back to Sanctity

Goodbye

Motherland is a conqueror's skin; a child that needs to be held; an asshole who never tells the truth. It's the birth and death of your ancestors and descendants happening at the same instant, a chrysalis, liquid, warm and viscous, carrying memories from a past life into a new one.

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/motherland_itunes
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/motherland/1856824
Bandcamp: https://sinnbus.bandcamp.com/track/motherland
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0DzZ0oWyxBNMAUiNKYoW9C
Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/album/14092828

Motherland

taken from "the return of stravinsky wellington" - release june 2nd, 2017

MELODY X 

now you look for love in a time of hate / how many swipes for a blow of fate / you keep the light on / you keep the light on / you keep the night light on / every day is like the same old song / until everything right goes wrong / you keep the light on / you keep the light on / you keep the night light on / hold your broken dream up high / you know you try / oh you know you try / it’s the worst case scenario lullaby / and then the rent is just a little too late / ain’t gonna be no birthday cake / you keep the light on / you keep the light on / you keep the night light on / hold your broken dream up high / you know you try / oh you know you try / it’s the worst case scenario lullaby / even if the cops come and knock on your door / and the pills spill out on the floor / you keep the light on / you keep the light on / you keep the night light on / hold your broken dream up high / you know you try / oh you know you try / it’s the worst case scenario lullaby / something’s gotta change / something’s gotta change / hold on / hold on / hold on to something good / something’s gotta change / something’s gotta change / hold on / hold on / hold on to something good / try to sooth yourself to sleep my dear / you know this whole mess is born from fear / you keep the light on / you keep the light on / keep the night light on / keep the light on / the light on / the night light on

The Return Of Stravinsky Wellington

Melody X

The Antlers - Kettering

S t r a y

Echoes

Massive Attack - Angel

Debut track from AUSTRA. Out November 16th on ONE BIG SILENCE in North America. 

01 BEAT AND THE PULSE

Other lives - For 12

Obsidian Ritual

Stone Towers

The original soundtrack EP of ITV's hit series Broadchurch featuring music written by Ólafur Arnalds - available for the first time for download on Mercury Classics from 15th April 2013.

Goodbye

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