Surface

Crossing The Bridge (From "Surface")

Revelations (From "Surface")

Helpless (From "Surface")

We Drifted Apart (From "Surface")

Main Titles (From "Surface")

Lost Memories (From "Surface")

Horse Ride (From "Surface")

some kind of peace — piano reworks

The Bottom Line — piano reworks

and we’ll leave it there…

"Í gegnum Ísinn" from Ólafurs original score for the film Vonarstræti / Life In a Fishbowl 

Stari Í Gegnum Ísinn

improvisation

TREE - #PianoDay

“TREE” is a part of a composition written for Simphonie Cinétique, a collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Joachim Sauter. Re-edited and mixed for release in celebration of Nils Frahm’s #PianoDay and features Nils himself on celeste.

Composed, arranged and performed by Ólafur Arnalds
Violin: Viktor Orri Árnason
Celeste: Nils Frahm

Recorded at Durton Studio, Berlin.
Mixed at E7 Studios, Reykjavik.

See more about Symphonie Cinétique here:
https://vimeo.com/70897666

TREE

A 2015 re-recording of Ljósið, originally released on Found Songs in 2009. 

Violin/Viola: Viktor Orri Árnason

Ljósið - 2015

Study for Player Piano (i)

Broadchurch

So Far (feat. Arnór Dan)

Island Songs

1995 (Island Songs II) [feat. Dagný Arnalds]

Particles (Island Songs VI)

Doria (Island Songs VII)

For Piano Day 2017 I give you this little tune for Piano and Viola from the score for a documentary called Out Of Thin Air (coming later in 2017)

Viola: Karl Pestka

Slow Decay (Out of Thin Air - OST) Piano Day 2017

...and they have escaped the weight of darkness

Þú ert jörðin

Erased Tapes Collection V

Happiness Does Not Wait

Living Room Songs

Fyrsta

I am so happy to finally share some new music with you! There is much more to come, but it starts here.

re:member

Buy/Stream

unfold

saman

Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds

Say My Name

I took a short vacation break in Berlin and my good friend Peter Broderick was so nice to let me stay in his apartment. We stayed in on Friday night because of the rain, pressed record and started improvising... Here is a short excerpt.

Oli+Peter. July 6th improvisation

Samples from every track on the new album, For Now I Am Winter out Feb/March 2013:

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07 Hands, be still

08 Only the Winds

Back To The Sky

We Contain Multitudes (from home)

Woven Song

Loom

This is track 7 from '...and they have escaped the weight of darkness' (2010)

Hægt, kemur ljósið

This track is a part from the contemporary ballett piece i worked on with the amazing choreographer Wayne McGregor. It's heavy, but we all like the occasional heavy track, right? 
I released my soundtrack to the piece as an EP, called Dyad 1909 (2009)

Brotsjór

Ljósið was the 7nd and last track in a week long project, called Found Songs, where i wrote, recorded and released one song per day, for free. I thought it was nice to end the week with something uplifting. Esteban Diacono's video to the song has been very popular.

You can down all the Found Songs for free at http://foundsongs.erasedtapes.com

Ljósið

Uploaded by your request! This is my personal favorite track off my first album, Eulogy for Evolution. 


3055

Another Happy Day, by Sam Levinson (featuring Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore...) is premiering at Sundance Festival this weekend! This is a little sample of the music I did for the film. This song is from what is in my opinion one of the strongest moments in the film.
http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/untitledsamlevinsonproject_sundance2011
Gotta pack my boots and hat now. I hear it's cold out there in Utah...


Lynn's Theme

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.

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