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Dark Music Days: From Teenage Bedroom To Vibrating Metal Plates
Live concert review from the cutting edge As the days are still awfully short, this past weekend Dark Music Days embraced the darkness outside and celebrated contemporary music with a four-day festival. It is one of the oldest music festivals in Iceland,…
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A Journey Through The Steam
Icelandic composers Benni Hemm Hemm and Bára Gísladóttir explore death on their collaborative album Gufa. Sometimes the most idiosyncratic and intense Icelandic music comes out of sudden collaborations. Both Benni Hemm Hemm and Bára Gísladóttir have respectively rich scopes of work, and…
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Grapevine New Music: Hildur, Low Roar, Benni Hemm Hemm & More
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the new year. I bet you’ve already failed your New Year’s resolutions — I know I have. But regardless of the empty promises we make to ourselves once a year, we can all unite in the…
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The Core Of The Winter: Bára Gísladóttir On Her Newest, Most Claustrophobic Release
“The funny thing is that I wasn’t even planning on releasing this album,” Bára Gísladóttir says, a wide, animated smile taking over her face. The composer and double bassist is only weeks away from releasing her newest solo album, ‘HĪBER,’ a piece…
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New Icelandic Music: Countess Malaise, SiGRÚN, sideproject ++
Like waking up with nine extra arms that have been tidying up your house and doing your taxes while you were asleep, here are the nine new tracks from the Icelandic music scene that caught our attention—for better, or for worse—this month.…
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Grapevine Playlist: ROKKY, Hildur & Teitur, Sigur Rós, Gyðjan Uxi & More
Like six hidden people pirouetting out of a weird misty summer moss-scape, here are the latest mythical emergences from the Icelandic music scene in a brand new edition of Grapevine playlist. ROKKY – deux A bit like a less goth and silly…
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Airwaves Thursday Super-Review: HELL YES TOMM¥ €A$H & Other Stories
After the excitement of the opening night, which our super-review team spent running between stages, checking out the venues, saying “hi” to old friends, making new ones, and gorging on as many shows as possible, we sank deeper into the rhythm of…
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Coffee, Concerts & Escaping Zombie Mode: Bára Gísladóttir’s Perfect Day In Reykjavík
Bára Gísladóttir is a contrabass player and composer who recently won the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in Denmark, as well as a “Shout Out” at the last Grapevine Music Awards. “I haven’t lived in Iceland for some years,” she says, “but when…
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Icelandic Composer Bára Gísladóttir Wins Prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Icelandic contrabass player and composer Bára Gísladóttir, who was the joint winner of the Grapevine Music Awards “Shout Out” category earlier this year alongside rapper Alvia Islandia, has won the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize. The prize is one of the most prestigious…
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Grapevine Music Awards 2017: All The Winners, And Why They Won
It‘s midwinter in Iceland, when the battle against frozen feet and contagious, uncontrollable yawning is in full swing. Luckily for us, however, it’s nothing that can’t be solved with a cup of coffee and some good music. So, what better time to…
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Grapevine Music Awards: Shout Out – Alvia & Bára Gísladóttir
Once a year, we at Grapevine honour the best and brightest of the Icelandic music scene by giving out awards to some of the artists who light up our lives on the little subarctic island. The second—the Shout Out award—goes to rapper…
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Grapevine Playlist: Jónsi, Glowie, Björk, East Of My Youth & More
From Bára Gísladóttir’s tectonic double bass wailing, to facially-active blues duo ROFOROFO, to Jónsi and Björk’s latest releases, here are some noteworthy tracks that have recently emerged the Icelandic scene. You can hear these songs and more by subscribing to our Spotify…
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The Grapevine GrapeWaves 2017 Festival Super Preview, Part One
Airwaves is upon us! The off-venues are running, the stages are warming up, and it’s time to download the festival app and start organising your life for the next five days. Grapevine will, of course, be there in force—we have ten writers…
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Our Gods Never Existed: Bára Gísladóttir’s Music Mass
‘Mass For Some’ is the new album by composer and a double bass player Bára Gísladóttir. It’s a strange avant-garde concept album based around the Christian mass, but in a way, it deconstructs it and turns it on its head with terrifying…
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Whirlwind, Heat & Flash: Airwaves 2016 In Pictures
We all had a wonderful time at this year’s Iceland Airwaves music festival, as these photos attest. We couldn’t possibly post all the photos our intrepid photographer took during this remarkable festival, but below you can see our hand-selected photos from each…
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Airwaves Debutantes Part 1: What’s New And Who’s Who
It’s tough to set your schedule up for Iceland Airwaves. Over the festival’s five days, there are 150 bands in the official “on-venue” programme alone. And what makes it all the more difficult and exciting is an ever-expanding list of new names…
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Bára Gísladóttir’s Performances Are Full Of Surprises
In a dimly lit, pin-drop quiet Mengi, young composer and musician Bára Gísladóttir lies onstage on her back, behind her double bass. Barely visible, she starts to make sound—a breathy growling, that builds into a throaty roar, and then a howl. Bára…
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Happening Tonight: Bára Gísladóttir Album Release Show
Bára Gísladóttir is a composer and a double bassist who recently successfully kickstarted a €3000 Karolina Fund campaign to create her first album, ‘Different Rooftops’. The album features compositions written for combinations of voice, tenor saxophone, double bass and electronics, and launches…