PS As I know you love collaborations, I am always ready to offer my knowledge of ancient Sanskrit, chanting mantras to any of your pieces, which will be an absolute honour! https://soundcloud.com/ion-t-veddinge

Soooo sweet! I really love your sounds, they always inspired me. Lovely tunes like "Nadia", "Homelands" or the "Bengali Song" are such wonderful pieces. I always thinked about them when i did earlier works beside dance tunes like "1nce Inna Lifetime", the "M.A.K.A.Z.E" album or tunes like "Warm". I really thank you for sharing your light.

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Morning

Not a Man, Not a Woman

Not a Man, Not a Woman (Acoustic in Lugano)

There are strange forces at work, lurking underneath the shiny, impeccable surface of this place: Looming behind all those perfect little fence posts and neighborly smiles, there's a sense of isolation, of emptiness, a hint of claustrophobia, that fear of being in the wrong place, too far removed from where things are really happening. It's true: darkness has fallen upon suburbia. Welcome to the unadorned world of Innhverfi.

Using a play on the Icelandic words for "suburbs" and "introvert" for its title, Innhverfi is the debut solo album from Sigur Rós' and Jónsi's touring keyboard player/percussionist Óbó – in his passport it says Ólafur Björn Ólafsson –, and although comprised of no more than 7 compositions, it does run the gamut of suburban bliss turned upside down: After the LP's minimalistic opener "Úthverfi", a track that melancholically opens up after a long, immensely dark and brooding intro, that ultimately offers some respite in the form of playful Glockenspiel over layers of slow-moving sonic lava, the equally cinematic "Svartur galdur" leaves much room for Óbó's trademark baritone: Like a bespectacled puppeteer with fluffy hair, he seems to shuffle and rearrange home-recorded bits and lullaby-like DIY pieces in front of our very eyes, which can't help but follow, as we move deeper into the somewhat forlorn suburban landscape that has inspired this record. Imagine dark, wet streets, overcast little alleys, and suddenly a cat or a candle on a windowsill, breathing slowly.

Elsewhere, "Gjallarhornin" – all spoken words, piano, strings, vibraphone, rearranged like a whirlwind in slow-motion – makes way for a hopeful oomph deferred and silent-movie era melodies, while "Stilla", an instrumental, commences like early Efterklang, but there's no gaudiness on the horizon: When the subtle electronics and percussions erupt in the end, it all feels just right – if only for a brief moment. Finally, the subdued birdsong and jazz-inspired piano of "Fyrirbo∂i" underline that Ólafsson has worked on motion picture soundtracks in the past – e.g. The Good Heart, Steypa –, and before it all ends, he even throws in a foot-stompin' alt-pop song of sorts ("Rétt e∂a rangt?"). The last stop of this journey into the haunting underbelly of the suburban mind is "Gullregn": A creaking door that opens to unveil his own garden of forking paths, a place where one can still decide, shake things up, jump the fence and run, leave before it's too late. It's pure possibility, presented in a golden light.

Although Innhverfi is his debut effort as a solo artist, Óbó's musical handwriting has been all over the Icelandic map in recent years: A multi-instrumentalist and a wizard on percussions, he studied piano and later composition in various European cities and has performed and recorded with artists such as Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Emiliana Torrini, Stórsveit Nix Noltes, slowblow, Benni Hemm Hemm, múm, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Úlfur Hansson and Valgeir Sigur∂sson, to name a few.

Though few will be able to understand the lyrics in his native Icelandic, one thing is certain: Innhverfi is the very antidote to the affliction and troubles it sketches out. Turns out we've been in the right place all along.

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Óbó: Rett Eda Rangt?

Released 1st December 2014 on Mono Records.
Music by Mark Broughton, Matt Hardy and Ben Helm.
Lyrics by Mark Broughton.
Produced by Mick Ross.
Recorded by Mark Broughton and Mick Ross.
Mixed by Mick Ross.
Mastered by John Davis, Metropolis.
Artwork by Jonathan Hamilton.
℗ and © Tessera Skies 2014.

Buy the ‘Droplet’ split vinyl here: www.monoproduction.co.uk

Buy the ‘Droplet’ split digital release on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/1H50hY6

Lyrics:

Lies begin as white
Beginnings wrought from rust

It was man of desire
Perspired a salty greed
Lit fire for fun

Tiny voice in a sea of uncountable voices
One droplet in all of the ocean
Spluttered words fall like rain, we are soaked to the bone
Mucky droplets we've taken for our very own

I am not all beast
Cavorting without thought or speech

Remember when you speak for me
Oh I'm tired of being pleased so easily

And how we'll look back in amazement at every scrap and scrape we're fighting now
Oh we'll laugh all night remembering the risible ideas we used to have
We'll wash away the empty words, our hopes writ large, "Don't sell me to myself!"
What is the ocean?

Droplet

Alboran Trio - Balkan Air

2015 UK & European Tour Announced. Click here: smarturl.it/finkautumntour for all dates & tickets.

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I'm Done (Hannah Peel Rebox)

Taken from the new album 'Damned Devotion' released 09 February 2018. Pre-order from here: http://found.ee/damneddevotion

Warning Bell

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Bloom Innocent

Once You Get A Taste

The Living Layer + Vælv is taken from the new live album THE PIRAMIDA CONCERT by EFTERKLANG & COPENHAGEN PHIL - released June 10th 2013.

Order the limited deluxe vinyl release here: http://shop.efterklang.net/

The Piramida Concert by Efterklang & Copenhagen Phil was recorded live at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Music Concert Hall in October 2012. Over the course of two sold-out nights Efterklang - plus Peter Broderick, Katinka Fogh Vindelev and Budgie (Siouxsie and The Banshees) - teamed up with classical orchestra Copenhagen Phil and German conductor André de Ridder to perform the Danish act's fourth album Piramida in its entirety. Staged for the first time at the Sydney Opera House in May 2012, the orchestral arrangements were written by fellow Dane Karsten Fundal and New York composer Missy Mazzoli. The Piramida Concert also features 'So', a song written during recording sessions for Piramida, and 'Vælv', a classical piece commissioned by Efterklang and composed by Karsten Fundal. The live performance was mixed to tape by Francesco Donadello in the Vox-Ton studio in Berlin.. The Piramida Concert will only be available digitally and as a limited edition deluxe double gatefold vinyl (one black, one white + CD inside), designed by Danish artists Hvass&Hannibal.

I'm Done (Hannah Peel Rebox)

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