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Grapevine New Music: GusGus, BSÍ, Farao & More
If this ain’t a heatwave, I don’t know what is. With so much quality music out this year — and it’s only May — it doesn’t matter whether the summer will be warm or cold. These tunes are primed to bring the heat into…
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Introducing Ultraflex: 80s Soviet Aerobics Meets Modern Disco
There’s a new band on the block and its transporting intrepid listeners to the future by way of 1980s Russia and modern day Iceland, Germany and Norway. Introducing Ultraflex… Ultraflex is a collaboration between Norwegian musician Farao and Reykjavik’s own Katrín Helga…
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Jaakko Eino Kalevi Wanders Through Scenes, Genres, The World
Jaakko Eino Kalevi is an oddly compelling presence. Usually backed by a small band, he plays languid, hazy, analogue pop music with shades of psychedelia and disco, swaying onstage barely enough to make his long hair move. His eyes remain fixed on…
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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea: Farao’s New Sound
Kari Jahnsen, aka Farao, sits in a downtown Reykjavík cafe on a typically unsettled Icelandic day. We’re chatting amiably over coffee and watching people slide down Laugavegur through the frozen snow, when suddenly a violent downpour of hailstones begins, rattling the windows…
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Farao Unveils New Iceland-Made Single
Farao, aka Norwegian singer Kari Jahnsen, might well be familiar to keen-eyed followers of Iceland’s music scene. She’s played in Iceland more than most, whether supporting Ásgeir on a sold out Christmas-time tour, performing at Harpa Norðurljós at Airwaves ’14, or warming…