November is a song of appreciation of this much maligned month. A song of embracing the melancholy and grey days, lighting candles to light our way into the cold darkness of winter. The longing for summers past, but the inevitable trajectory into the future.

The song is in its essence a painting of November, with its moodswings and tumultous nature.

Thanks for listening.

Ahoy! Side B

November

Ambient melodic sounds based on a rhythmic theme created with Ableton's "Probability Arp" midi effect. Started out with no beat but I couldn't resist adding it :) 

Reaching Saturn

Based in Iceland, he is a singer, songwriter, guitar player who last year released three singles and a 15-song album.  In recent years he has extensively toured Australia, the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Europe, playing over one hundred live concerts per year. He has been written about by the German edition of Rolling Stone as well as a notable magazine in Australia. He has been releasing original music since 2009 and has almost 36 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify and more than three-quarters of a million combined video views on his official YouTube channel.  Along the way, at one point his band participated in the final 5 competition on BBC World Service’s Next Big Thing, playing for millions of viewers and listeners all over the world.

Now Hear This Entertainment

NHTE 420 Svavar Knutur

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

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

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 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

A repainted version of my song Ölduslóð, from my album with the same name. A song of old love and the dreams of youth.

07 - Ölduslóð (Repainted)

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

Icelandic Singer/songwriter and storyteller. Songs of misery and redemption, serenity and wanderlust.