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A Slow Motion Firework: The Story Of Emilíana Torrini’s ‘Miss Flower’
Emilíana Torrini is on a family holiday in Wales when she speaks with The Reykjavík Grapevine. She radiates joy and swiftly declares her love for the country. “Wales is my favourite place,” she says. “Everything is bursting with flowers. It’s just so…
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Grapevine New Music: Una Schram, Young Nazareth, Emilíana Torrini & More
Passersby near Reykjavík’s harbour dock might have noticed a slight change to the scenery in the last week. A giant Ferris wheel seems to have sprung up seemingly overnight. Seeing as views across the bay have been more or less obscured by…
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Grapevine New Music: Emilíana Torrini, Jónfrí, JóiPé & Króli, & More
We hope it’s your favourite time of the week because it sure is ours. Apart from getting a list of some of the newest Icelandic music, you’ve got the whole weekend to unwind until the cogs have to start turning again on…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: JFDR, Emilíana Torrini, Drengurinn fengurinn & More
With the sun making a rare appearance in Reykjavík this February, the Grapevine team has unanimously decided to embrace a “low-key Friday” mood. Whether you had a long week at school, your boss keeps being a dictator, you’re in post-Valentine’s Day tension…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Jae Tyler, Árstíðir, and Emíliana Torrini
Yeah yeah yeah! We have a new gem by Emíliana Torrini, a Gary Newman “Cars”-like single by Jae Tyler, and a great new track by Árstíðir. Perfect tracks for a cosy weekend at home, don’t you think? Hit up our playlist below…
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Grapevine Playlist: aYia, SiGRÚN, GYDA, Emilíana Torrini, Júníus Meyvant, PORT & More
Like the beautiful geysir exploding hot, stinky earth water all over a group of damp, blissed-out lookers-on, here are the latest steaming exhalations from Iceland’s sulphurous music scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4TzcQusPSY&feature=youtu.be aYia – Sparkle A breakthrough project of recent years, the video for aYia’s…
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Music News In Brief: Airwaves 2.0, Meira From GKR, Emilíana Torrini and more!
When Iceland Airwaves was started in 1999 the festival organisers were looking for a platform to bring in the tourists and push out the music. It worked, it really fucking worked. What started as a one-off weekend is now a full week’s…
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As You Go: Emilíana Torrini And The Improv Of Life
Two and a half years ago Emilíana Torrini quit the band. There was no drama, no hard feelings. “I just promised myself if I started to think about other things on stage then it was time to stop. When I was singing,…
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Aldrei Fór Ég Suður Puts Ísafjörður In Focus
Ísafjörður wants you to know that it’s awoken from wintry slumber and it’s celebrating with the thirteenth annual Aldrei fór ég suður festival. Never mind the thick layer of ice caked onto the streets, nor the piles of snow obscuring all but…
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Emiliana Torrini To Perform At Aldrei Fór Ég Suður
The famed singer/songwriter will be performing at the Westfjords music festival for the first time. Organisers of the Aldrei fór ég suður music festival announced that Emiliana Torrini will not only perform at the festival – she will also be backed up…
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Drangey Music Festival: Beautiful Scenery, Beautiful Music
A music festival on Drangey? In Skagafjörður? Yep, later this month, Drangey will host the first ever Drangey Music Festival with top acts like Emilíana Torrini, Jónas Sigurðsson, Magni, and Contalgen Funeral. We got in touch with festival organiser Áskell Heiðar Ásgeirsson…
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Straumur: Deadbeat Summer Jams
It’s official and Straumur-approved: summertime has finally arrived! Here are some domestic jams to go with this particular time of year. Singapore Sling, “Summer Garden” Singapore Sling’s “Summer Garden” features a sweetness of the drugged-out Velvet Underground variety. Instead of their usual…
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The Grapevine Interns Highlight What’s Happening This Weekend
It may be the end of the shortest month of the year, but it looks to be quite possibly the busiest weekend of them all! In between KEX Hostel’s annual beer festival, Oyama and Brött Brekka’s show at Bar 11, the Rafnæs DJ night…
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See Emiliana Torrini, Others At Berlin X Reykjavík
This year, the Extreme Chill Festival and XJAZZ Festival have merged into Berlin X Reykjavík, resulting in a great lineup of 23 acts. Here in Reykjavík, we get to enjoy sets from the legendary Emiliana Torrini (performing with Berlin’s Ensemble X), Christian Prommer,…
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Gothic Wolffish Cheeks in JaJaJaland
A relentlessly cheerful Icelandic pop musician and a brooding Finnish wunderkind of the Nordic food scene (and former keyboardist for goth rock band HIM) traverse Iceland to source ingredients for an intimate banquet in a nondescript apartment to promote a music festival…
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Re: Grapevine’s Ghastly Gender Gap
A few days after our last issue came out, we received a letter about something that I had been feeling rather uncomfortable about for some time now. I knew it was coming. After printing an article featuring last year’s covers, with all…
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Azerrad’s Report: Wednesday
Noted music writer slash Grapevine’s guest of honour Michael Azerrad goes wild at Iceland Airwaves 2013, wandering between venues, listening hard and taking notes. For his Wednesday report, he digs on Mammút and Emiliana, and has some words of advice for Retro…
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Reykjavík Grapevine’s Podcast: Airwaves Thursday Edition!
The first day of Iceland Airwaves is now behind us and of course, The Reykjavík Grapevine podcast is here with a recap. Today, we discuss our personal highlights from yesterday and give you a taste of the well-mixed line-up from the first…
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“Artistic Growth” And Homegrown Awesomeness At Harpa Silfurberg
Samaris deserve to be “fucking huge”.