Co-mixed with @Aasthma.

There are few people who have had as much of an impact on contemporary electronic music as Karin Dreijer, whether with their brother Olof in The Knife or with their solo project, Fever Ray. From massive indie-pop hits to paradigm-shifting dance records, Dreijer's work takes a psychedelic, plasticine approach to synth pop, with their trademark pitch-shifted vocals and psuedo-tropical beats. As Fever Ray, they've tapped into the global club music underground, working with producers like Nídia, Paula Temple, Deena Abdelwahed, Vessel and, on new album Radical Romantics—one of our favourite albums of the year so far at RA, hands down—even Nine Inch Nails.

Other important collaborators in Dreijer's world are Peder Mannerfelt and Pär Grindvik, the Swedish techno producers who have been working with Fever Ray since the first album back in 2009. They co-mixed this RA Podcast. The mix is a survey of Dreijer's favourite dance music, some of which informs their one-of-a-kind sound world as Fever Ray. There's plenty of music from the groundbreaking East African scene centered around Nyege Nyege Tapes, plus DJ Haram, Equinkoxx, Tayhana and more, and even two exclusive, upcoming Fever Ray remixes from Avalon Emerson and Nifra. It's a rare look into the musical tastes of a true visionary.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/883

Photo: Flemming Bo Jenson

RA podcast

RA.883 Fever Ray

This is an audio version of the sleeve notes for Nordic Viola's Album, Elsewhere, Elsewhen.

The album is available on CD or digitally from https://nordicviola.bandcamp.com/album/elsewhere-elsewhen

and all major streaming platforms.

For more information, visit https://nordicviola.wordpress.com/

Elsewhere, Elsewhen - Album Audio Sleeve Notes

Thar Farraige

Thar Farraige - IV - Slán Abhaile (feat. Brighde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet)

Thar Farraige - II - Slán (feat. Brighde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet)

A Path of Yellow Moonlight

Thar Farraige - III - Gealach (feat. Brighde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet)

Samhain (feat. Brighde Chaimbeul)

Thar Farraige - I - Caoin (feat. Brighde Chaimbeul & Maxwell Quartet)

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs : Episode 1 'Mother's Blood'
Broadcast on RTE Lyric fm  Sunday December 29th 6pm-7pm.
Mother's Blood, Sister Songs is a two part radio and podcast documentary, the story of how the genetics of Iceland reveals its Irish motherhood, presented by Irish composer Linda Buckley and produced by Athena Media for RTE lyric fm.
In Episode 1 'Mother's Blood' Linda begins her journey at her parents dairy farm at the Old Head of Kinsale, sharing her own story of sound and music and how Iceland became part it of through music and how when she finally went there in 2014 to write music, she felt strangely at home. 
That quest to uncover the connections between Ireland and Iceland starts a journey through time and history, from 9th Century Gaelic ireland during the Vikings to the genetics research of Dr. Kári Stefánsson in Reykjavik. Linda finds out about the female slaves taken by Norwegian Vikings to Iceland and becomes fascinated by one story in the Icelandic Sagas of Melkorka, a supposedly mute Irish slave, said to be the daughter of an Irish King. Is Melkorka real or imagined and where these Gaelic slaves the first mothers of Iceland?


The music heard in this episode includes :
Björk - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu ( Icelandic folksong)
Linda Buckley - Fall Approaches  * theme 
Sigur rós - Ekki Múkk
Linda Buckley - Numarimur (vox Elizabeth Hilliard) * theme 
Steindór Andersen - Haustið Na´lgast
Sigur rós - Sæglópur
Linda Buckley Hekla 
Linda Buckley Fridur 
Linda Buckley - Drowning Pool 
Linda Buckley - Siúil A Rúin (traditional air) 
Valgeir Sigurðsson - Ghosts (World Premiere 2013 performed by Crash Ensemble)
Daniel Bjarnason - Bow to String
Linda Buckley - Ó Iochtar Mara  (vox Iarla Ó Lionaird) 
Björk - Mother Heroic 
Sigur rós - Kjartan sveinsson-sidasti baerinn
Sigur rós - óðin's raven magic - chapter 3
Bara Grimsdottir - The Spinning Song ( folk song)
Muireann Níc Amhlaoibh - Slán le Máigh
Linda Buckley - Torann 
Vox Feminae -Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu
Fields - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir 
Heyr þú oss himnum á - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir 
Sello Stína - Fold ( vox Steindór Andersen)
Amiina - Bíólagið
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh & Billy Mag Fhloinn - Port na bPúcaí 
Guðrún Jóhanna Ólafsdóttir - Móðir mín í kví, kví I (icelandic folk song - lullaby)



You can find some of the music here in a Soundcloud playlist
https://soundcloud.com/athena-media/sets/mothersbloodsistersongs_music


For more go to www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com
and 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eg_QLrns0491-G2ZB4E_88LZrREv1dy8OmRqoTuVpr8/edit

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs Episode 1 'Mother's Blood'

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs, Episode 2 'Sister Songs'.
Broadcast RTÉ Lyric fm Jan 5 6-7pm.

In Episode 2 of this music led arts documentary composer Linda Buckley meets women composers and musicians in Iceland, exploring how the genetics of Iceland reveals its Irish motherhood. What is the root of Iceland's extraordinary creativity? 
Linda talks to harpist Katie Buckley, flautist Melkorka Olafsdottir, and hears how Björk creates a collaborative and creative environment drawing on the rich legacy of Iceland's musical tradition.
The music played in this episode includes, in this order:
Linda Buckley - Fall Approaches
Linda Buckley - Numarimur
Björk - Mother Heroic 
Linda Buckley - Siúil A Rún
Sigur Ros - Odins' Raven Magic
Melkorka Olafsdottir playing Telemann Fantasia 6 Dolce
Móðir mín í kví kví - Icelandic folk song
Bara Grimsdottir - Æskustöðvarnar
Medieval Icelandic folk singing - Tvísöngur
Kristín Lárusdóttir (Selló Stína) - Haustið nálgast 
Kristin Larusdottir Sello Stina - Fold  ( vox Steindor Anderson)
Kristín Lárusdóttir (Selló-Stína) - Von
Bara Grimsdottir - Blíðviðri
Sigur Ros - Glósóli
JFDR - White Sun
Björk - The Anchor Song
Lara Bryndis Eggertsdottir - I heard the Sound of their Wings
Vox Feminae - Móðir mín í kví, kví
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Ilan Volkov) - Aeriality
Björk - Utopia
Katie Buckley - Snowy February
Bjork - Violently happy
Vox Feminae - Visur Vatnsenda Rosu
Björk - Tabula Rasa
Björk - Blissing Me
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Heyr þú oss himnum á
Linda Buckley & Irene Buckley- Song of the Siren (vox Annette Buckley)
Linda Buckley - Fall Approaches
Linda Buckley - Numarimur

Find out more on www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs is an Athena Media production for RTÉ lyric fm made with the support of the TV licence fee and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The presenter is Linda Buckley, producer is Helen Shaw, the documentary audio editor is Pearse O Caoimh and the production digital editor is John Howard. 
The RTÉ lyric fm commissioning editor is Olga Buckley.

Mother's Blood, Sister Songs: Episode 2 'Sister Songs'

fiol was commissioned by the Rothko String Trio (Cliodhna Ryan - violin, Cian Ó Dúill - viola & Robin Michael - cello) in 2008 with funds provided by the Arts Council of Ireland. The soundworld of this piece was inspired by the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle (hardingfele). 'Fiol' was the predominant term used for 'fiddle' in DanishNorwegian of the 17th and 18th centuries. This instrument is mainly used for the performance of Norwegian folk music and is similar in construction to the violin, but with eight or nine strings. Four of the strings are strung and played like a violin, and the remaining strings, called 'sympathetic strings' resonate 'in sympathy' with the other four. Here I was interested in treating the trio as a single twelve-stringed 'meta-instrument' rather than as three separate voices, almost like a hardingfele or Baroque viola d'amore with sympathetic resonating strings. This is a live recording of the premiere at the Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, 2008.

Fiol - Rothko String Trio

Linda Buckley