Morgunn

Morgunn (Acoustic Version)

Svavar Knútur ft. Marketa Irglova - While the world burns Ukulele version

November

Played this song live at Radio Q university radio in Münster, Germany.
Wrote it a couple of days before in Hamburg, thinking about Fukushima, the end of the world, 2012, killer robots and the love of my life. Basically, it's an apocalyptic love song.
I think my favorite thing about this song is the fact that the audience never knows if they should take it really seriously or as more of a humorous number. To me, it's both. It doesn't have to be one way or the other... You can have a humorous view of a serious issue and that, to me, is the point of songwriting a lot of the time.


Svavar Knútur - While The World Burns (acoustic - Live)

Unanswered

09 - Medusa

10 - Unanswered

Ahoy! Side B

Emotional Anorexic

Emotional Anorexic (Repainted) [feat. Helene Bøksle]

A song about how love trancends destruction and death. How all troubles in the world become meaningless in the face of true love.
A duet with wonderful Norwegian singer Helene Bøksle.

Lyrics:

Some people say the end is near
and some say that it's already here.
But I won't feel the slightest fear,
if my arms are full of you.

Maybe we will suffocate
on poison fumes and clouds of hate.
But I won't care about my fate,
if my arms are full of you.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

Crushed by the oceans mighty waves
or ripped apart by robotic slaves.
I won't mind the crowded graves,
if my arms are full of you.

Burned alive by bitter ash
or a supernovas blinding flash.
I won't feel that biting lash,
if my arms are full of you.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

--- 

Credits
from Ahoy! Side B, releases April 19, 2024
Svavar Knútur - Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Piano
Helene Bøksle - Vocals
Bassi Ólafsson - percussion
Örn Ýmir Arason - Bass, Synths
Unnur Helgadóttir - Cello
Karl James Pestka - Viola
Sigrún K. Jónsdóttir - violin

While The World Burns (Repainted)  [feat. Helene Bøksle]

The sublime Norwegian singer Helene Bøksle joins Icelandic singer songwriter Svavar Knútur in an emotional break up song for the ages. No blame, no anger or resentment. O nly burning self criticism and pain.

Emotional Anorexic (Repainted) - Svavar Knútur feat. Helene Bøksle

A song about storms, breaking waves and shattered souls. Part of the music for a play about a schizophrenic man's mission to cope with his debilitating disease and gain control over his own life. Play is called "Þú kemst þinn veg" or "You will make your own path". Currently we are raising funds to make the play universally available for people with disabilities and the poor. Visit us on https://www.karolinafund.com/project/view/755

Just a demo recorded in the night, for my friends and fans from a work in progress. The final version is going to be very different.

Follow me on spotify : http://open.spotify.com/artist/76FWLfQYEGcW9PLIn5c0vw

Brot - Demo

Steingrímur Teague covers Svavar Knútur's song Clementine

Steingrímur Teague - Clementine - Afmælistónleikar 24.02.2018

Heiða Trúbador cover's Svavar Knútur's song While the world burns

Heiða Trúbador - While the world burns - Afmælistónleikar 24.02.2018

Hildur Vala covers Svavar Knútur's song Baby would you marry me?

Hildur Vala - Baby would you marry me - Afmælistónleikar 24.02.2018

Kári Viðars covers Svavar Knútur's song Kysstu Tímaglasið

Kári Viðars - Kysstu Tímaglasið - Afmælistónleikar 24.02

Svavar Knútur premiers his song The hurting at his birthday concert in Tjarnarbíó in february 2018

Svavar Knútur - The Hurting - First performance - Afmælistónleikar 24.02.2018

Ragga Gröndal covers Svavar Knútur's song Ölduslóð. 

Ragga Gröndal - Ölduslóð - Afmælistónleikar Svavars Knúts 24.02.2018

Lag úr einleiknum Kafteinn Frábær eftir Alistair McDowall.
Aðalhlutverk - Ævar Þór Benediktsson
Sýnt í Tjarnarbíó í febrúar 2025.

Lærum að fljúga

Í einu augnabliki 
er alheimur á priki
sem út úr geimnum skaust.

Og prikið berst með bliki
í bogadregnu striki
sem bendist endalaust.

Þú veist að ég get flogið
hef varla að þér logið,
og vængi enga þarf.

Þú flogið getur líka,
því furðugáfu slíka
fékkstu í föðurarf.

Eigum við í dag að læra að fljúga?
fjötra jarðar kveðjum hvergi smeik.
Um skýjaborgir megum smjúga,
skiljum eftir myrkur, sót og reyk.
Enginn fær stöðvað okkar leik.

Teygjum nú tærnar í sundur
og teigum heimsins undur,
við lífsins töfralind.

Hugsaðu ofar og ofar, 
ofar en kytrur og kofar.
sjórinn er spegilmynd.

Eigum við í dag að læra að fljúga?
fjötra jarðar kveðjum hvergi smeik.
Um skýjaborgir megum smjúga,
skiljum eftir myrkur, sót og reyk.
Enginn fær stöðvað okkar leik.


Pelikanar og pirraðar endur
páfuglar með derring og örn með sportrendur
Flugvél með hjálpardekk og fálki með húðflúr
Fallbyssukúla og dónalegur skúlptúr.
Heimurinn er okkar róló.
Dönsum í takt við Prins Póló.

Ég hlusta á þig anda
í heimi draumalanda
og hrærast ofurrótt.

Eitt augnablik á priki
brátt enda mun í ryki
og allt er orðið hljótt.

Lærum að fljúga - Kafteinn Frábær

A sweet song by Cole Porter. I have always loved this song since I first heard it sung by Sinéad O'Connor. This is a version recorded in a very lovely café concert in Zug, Switzerland.

Svavar Knutur - You do something to me - Cole Porter cover

A song written for the podcast Podsongs, after a wonderful conversation with Neilly and Sarah of the Leftist Cooks.

Recipe for something better

The Album Brot, by Icelandic Singer/songwriter Svavar Knútur

06 Wanderlust

Svavar Knutur's former band, Hraun played a cover version of Jethro Tull's Ring Solstice Bells. Recorded live with very few overdubs.

Ring Solstice Bells - Jethro Tull cover

A bittersweet song about missing your loved ones. A wonderful Duet with Czech singer-songwriter Marketa Irglova.

The Curtain feat. Marketa Irglova

A tender duet with Markéta Irglová, describing the feeling of being away from your loved ones.

The Curtain

Svavar Knútur og Litróf syngja jólalagið Höldum jól eftir Svavar Knút. // Svavar Knútur and the Litróf children's choir sing Svavar's christmas song Höldum jól (Let's hold christmas)
It's from a christmas album called "Syngur af hjarta Englahjörð", which features two of svavars' christmas songs.

Svavar Knútur og Litróf - Höldum Jól

A new Album by Svavar Knútur, a continuing of the journey started on Kvöldvaka. Side A of an upcoming double album.
Songs written in 2017 and 2018.

01 - Svavar Knútur - The Hurting

Svavar Knútur and Marketa Irglova sing together on the opening track of Svavar's new album Ölduslóð (way of the waves). Album coming out end of August or beginning of september.

Baby Would You Marry Me - (Feat. Marketa Irglova)

A song of celebration, gratitude and love, to the least loved, celebrated and thanked month, January. The bringer of light and hope to a world emerging from darkness and despair. Whirls of snow, reflecting and refracting the light from a low hanging sun.

Melancholy is the oxygen of the northern soul. Joy is our Carbon Dioxide. We inhale Melancholy and we exhale Joy. <3

"And after all that he gave, January crawls back under his fur. Until duty calls him back once more, like a snow covered Batman."

Januar

I wanted to write an untraditional love song telling about the feeling of total abandon and utter and almost desperate love. And I used this song to propose to Líney, who is now my wife.

Part of my album Ölduslóð (way of waves) and basically one of the pillars of the album, a wonderful duet with Markéta Irglová. 
Recorded and produced by Mio of Greenhouse Studios fame.


While The World Burns (Feat. Marketa Irglova)

In the darkest time of the year, January rises from his slumber to take on his thankless work of bringing back the sun.

January

Darkness swallows all,
 But beneath the snow with stoic, cold resolve. 
January stirs. 
With a quiet grunt pulls up his pants.  

Scowls with a furrowed brow, 
piercing eyes towards a freezing sun. 
„This disaster will not do!
 It lies so flat, but must rise.“

  Oh January, the month least loved.
 How glorious is your thankless work?

  The sun rises gently. 
But behind the scenes old January strives. 
Like a roadie after the show  
or a garbageman on his monday morning shift.  

Oh January, the month least loved,.
How glorious is your thankless work?  

And after all that he gave 
January crawls back beneath his fur.
 Until duty calls him forth once more,
 like a snow-covered Batman.  

Oh January, the month least loved. 
How glorious is your thankless work?

I see you January, I remember you, January.

Januar - Acoustic Version

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