Author: Grayson Del Faro - The Reykjavik Grapevine

RECAP: Völsungasaga, The Saga Of The Völsungs

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Episode three: The one with the most badass shield-maiden As usual, this story starts with some dude who is the…

The Seal Ghost Of Xmas Present: Eyrbyggja Saga RECAP

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Firstly, there are some things you need to know about the Sagas. There are fuckloads of them. There are so…

But Were You Not Amazed?

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When I was handed ‘The Summerland: The Deceased Describe Their Passing and Reunion in The Other World’ to review, I…

Hrafnkels Saga Freysgoða RECAP: The One With The Goddamn Horse

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This Saga begins the same way Iceland did, and the same way many Sagas do: some Norwegian guy (this one…

Airwaves, Day 4: 10 Perspectives

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Although Kiasmos and Kött Grá Pje were great, Bo Ningen were the ones who blew my mind, with their eccentric…

Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 4

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My final Milkywhale report will be brief. Although I’ve tried to catalogue as many things as I’ve learned about the…

Airwaves & Chill: This Year’s Best Sex Music

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Some artists, like James Blake and the Weeknd, are especially appreciated for their abilities to enhance (or maybe even initiate)…

Milkywhale – Watching Tour, Day 3

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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…

Milkywhale-Watching Tour, Day 2

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Today’s sighting of the ever-lovely Milkywhale was as majestic as ever. Yesterday, she managed to turn Laundromat Café into a…

The Silence Between Airwords

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Silence is more than just the thing that happens at the end of a song and before the beginning of…

A Milkywhale-Watching Tour of Airwaves

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Please Do Not Eat Milkywhale With much of the earth’s oceans left unexplored, we mere humans should feel lucky whenever…

Wallpoetry: A Whole New Kind Of Berlin Wall

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You don’t usually find yourself pressed up against a rack of jaw-droppingly expensive down coats to watch the performance of…

Mainland

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I put on Lily The Kid’s EP, ‘Mainland’, early in the morning. As Lilja’s ethereal voice emerged, a housemate remarked…

Mono Lisa

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Quickly following the late March release of an EP called ‘Acid Eclipse’, electronic musician Daveeth has released his first full-length…

Dancing To The Heartbeat

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Hlynur Páll Pálsson discusses the Reykjavík Dance FestivalThe Reykjavík Dance Festival has changed nearly as much as the art of…

All the Feels

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Emotional, by Brian Gerke and Ole Martin MelandThe lobby of Borgarleikhúsið is lit up in purple and packed with nicely…

The Legs Show

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Dancer and choreographer Brian Gerke on EmotionalBrian Gerke joined the Iceland Dance Company in 2012, having been teaching at Listdansskóli…

Beyond The Blue Lagoon, Literally

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DJ Margeir muses on music, mood, and meditationBy the time I make it to the top floor of the building,…

Dancers In The Dark

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No Lights No Lycra starts up at KEXA funky bassline is bumping out of KEX Hostel as I walk up…

Look Into the Light, Man!

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‘The Haunting of Reykjavík’ by Steinar BragiDespite its late-night silence, eerie for a city of its size, most would not…

Independence Is Not A Disaster:

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Scotland Teeters On Independence And Looks NorthAfter decades of discussion on the political and economic details of a theoretically independent…

Funding Dries Up at the Library of Water

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This year marks the first and only year since its opening in 2007 that VATNASAFN/LIBRARY OF WATER has been unable…