Author: Grayson Del Faro
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RECAP: Völsungasaga, The Saga Of The Völsungs
Episode three: The one with the most badass shield-maiden As usual, this story starts with some dude who is the…
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The Seal Ghost Of Xmas Present: Eyrbyggja Saga RECAP
Firstly, there are some things you need to know about the Sagas. There are fuckloads of them. There are so…
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But Were You Not Amazed?
When I was handed ‘The Summerland: The Deceased Describe Their Passing and Reunion in The Other World’ to review, I…
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Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða RECAP: The One With The Goddamn Horse
This Saga begins the same way Iceland did, and the same way many Sagas do: some Norwegian guy (this one…
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Airwaves, Day 4: 10 Perspectives
Although Kiasmos and Kött Grá Pje were great, Bo Ningen were the ones who blew my mind, with their eccentric…
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Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 4
My final Milkywhale report will be brief. Although I’ve tried to catalogue as many things as I’ve learned about the…
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Airwaves & Chill: This Year’s Best Sex Music
Some artists, like James Blake and the Weeknd, are especially appreciated for their abilities to enhance (or maybe even initiate)…
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Milkywhale – Watching Tour, Day 3
If you’ve been following my Milkywhale-watching tour (or stalking, whatever), you’d know I’ve been part of the dance parties they’ve…
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Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 2
Today’s sighting of the ever-lovely Milkywhale was as majestic as ever. Yesterday, she managed to turn Laundromat Café into a…
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The Silence Between Airwords
Silence is more than just the thing that happens at the end of a song and before the beginning of…
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A Milkywhale-Watching Tour of Airwaves
Please Do Not Eat Milkywhale With much of the earth’s oceans left unexplored, we mere humans should feel lucky whenever…
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Wallpoetry: A Whole New Kind Of Berlin Wall
You don’t usually find yourself pressed up against a rack of jaw-droppingly expensive down coats to watch the performance of…
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Mainland
I put on Lily The Kid’s EP, ‘Mainland’, early in the morning. As Lilja’s ethereal voice emerged, a housemate remarked…
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Mono Lisa
Quickly following the late March release of an EP called ‘Acid Eclipse’, electronic musician Daveeth has released his first full-length…
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Dancing To The Heartbeat
Hlynur Páll Pálsson discusses the Reykjavík Dance FestivalThe Reykjavík Dance Festival has changed nearly as much as the art of…
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All the Feels
Emotional, by Brian Gerke and Ole Martin MelandThe lobby of Borgarleikhúsið is lit up in purple and packed with nicely…
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The Legs Show
Dancer and choreographer Brian Gerke on EmotionalBrian Gerke joined the Iceland Dance Company in 2012, having been teaching at Listdansskóli…
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Beyond The Blue Lagoon, Literally
DJ Margeir muses on music, mood, and meditationBy the time I make it to the top floor of the building,…
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Dancers In The Dark
No Lights No Lycra starts up at KEXA funky bassline is bumping out of KEX Hostel as I walk up…
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Look Into the Light, Man!
‘The Haunting of Reykjavík’ by Steinar BragiDespite its late-night silence, eerie for a city of its size, most would not…
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Independence Is Not A Disaster:
Scotland Teeters On Independence And Looks NorthAfter decades of discussion on the political and economic details of a theoretically independent…
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Funding Dries Up at the Library of Water
This year marks the first and only year since its opening in 2007 that VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER has been unable…