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Music Reviews: Laufey, Tómas Jónsson, & Kira Kira
The latest issue of Grapevine is now flooding the streets of Reykjavík and various other municipalities. In the latest paper, we scrutinised three new releases by Icelandic musicians, including Iceland’s hottest punk artist Laufey! Gúmbó nr. 5 by Tómas Jónsson LP —…
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Your Favourite Artists’s Favourite Artists: End Of The Year Music Roundup
It’s (almost) the end of the year! And what better way to celebrate than by asking a bunch of artists to share some of their favourite tracks from 2024? This week’s roundup features all the releases that stood out to local musicians…
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Heading Into Pleasure Valley With Kira Kira
Kira Kira’s Unaðsdalur Embraces Light And Truth Since the premiere of her debut film Grandma Lo-Fi at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival in 2011, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir has sought to capture the tragicomic balance of creativity in private life. Now, 13…
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Grapevine New Music Picks: Worm Is Green, Önnu Jónu Son, KÁRI & More
We’re wrapping up the second week of March with a serious cold snap, and we’re pretty sure everyone is needing some warmth and comfort right about now. Luckily the batch of new music we’ve got for you this week is like a…
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Kira Kira’s Sonic Meditation: Music, Medicine And Miracles
Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, better known as Kira Kira, is a visual artist, composer and producer who creates sound sculptures with a focus on experimentation, new technologies and group improvisation. Collaborative practise has been a key aspect in Kira’s development throughout the years,…
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Grapevine Playlist: Icelandic Music From Kira Kira, GusGus, Dadykewl & More
It’s Grapevine Playlist time once more. Like seven sea eagles shooting out of an erupting volcano, here are the latest squawking expulsions from the Icelandic music scene. GusGus – Fireworks “Fireworks” is one of the better cuts from GusGus’s latest LP, ‘Lies…
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Short Films And Fish: The 11th Northern Wave Film Festival Is Here
Imagine you are sitting on the beach in Barcelona, reading about the New Wave in film, and thinking: “This is exactly what I want to do!” Plot Twist: You come from a small town in Iceland called Grundarfjörður, located right next to…
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Artist Playlist: Acid, Berghain And CGI Vaporwave With Hermigervill
Hermigervill is Sveinbjörn Thorarinsson, an accomplished electronic musician, performer, producer, and ever-present Reykjavík scene mainstay. With some exciting new music coming down the pipes, we asked him to share a playlist of some of his favourite Icelandic tracks. Chevron – It’s All…
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Track By Track: An Elixir For Intuition On Kira Kira’s ‘Alchemy & Friends’
Each piece of music is an alchemical offering; an elixir for courage, a device for distilling faith, a meditation on patience or trust. If not a direct conduit to healing, the music is an act of friendship coiled as an alchemical substrate,…
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Harvesting Sparkles: Kórus Collective Choir Leader Kira Kira Opens Up
Nestled into the cosy pink suede couch at Emilie & the Cool Kids, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir sips her tea and speaks to me with hushed, precise words. The musician and composer is known for her multitude of works—most notably, for her solo…
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Grapevine Playlist: Kira Kira, Rex Pistols, Dream Wife & More
2018 is a real thing that is happening to us all. Musicians included. Here are some of the latest and most attention-grabbing tracks that have dropped out of the many-splendored flora of the Icelandic music troposphere recently. Kira Kira – Pioneer of…
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Video Premiere: Kira Kira’s ‘Pioneer Of Love’ Reaches For The Top
Wading through the thick snow, musician Kira Kira steadily ascends icy cliffs in the music video for her single “Pioneer Of Love.” The song, co-written by electronic musician Hermigervill, is the lead single from her new album ‘Alchemy & Friends,’ was released…
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Making of an Artist: Drones, Collaborations & Transcendence With Kira Kira
Kira Kira is a prolific Icelandic artist, filmmaker and musician with an ever-evolving, collaborative, and multidisciplinary practise. Here, she talks us through some of the formative influences that helped her become the artist she is today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcI5rNR5TGM Art Collective: The Residents The…
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Call It Magic: Enter The World of Kira Kira
Kira Kira, aka Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, stands at the front of a low-lit lecture theatre. As music students file in, she plays a deep, harmonic sound over the speakers, and wafts a smouldering piece of Palo Stanto “Holy Wood” in circles, spreading…
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A Day Of Free, Local Music And Fun In Breiðholt
This Saturday, the Breiðholt suburb of Reykjavík will be a little (okay, a lot) louder than usual. The people over at Bedroom Community will be putting on the first ever Breiðholt Festival, a day of free (!) music and other arts events…
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A Magical Amulet: The Best Xmas Gift EVER?
Hey. If you want to give your friend or loved one an almost absurdly unique Christmas present that will make them think you’re one of those adventurous, spiritual types: your search is over. Check it out: Icelandic experimental electro-noise artist Kira Kira…
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The Big Sleep At Harpa Kaldalón
Kira Kira, an experimental noise band fronted by Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, opened up Harpa Kaldalón with a song I imagine is similar to the sound of a dinosaur being born. Kristín is that girl you went to art school with, she interchangeably plays…
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Kaldalón Attacked By Canadian Gay Pirates!!!
The first half of Harpa Kaldalón’s Saturday line-up felt incredibly random, as if the organizers pulled names out of a bag. I spent most of the night alternating between being deeply moved, annoyed, and confused. GUÐRIÐ HANDSDÓTTIR had a band on stage…
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“Í upphafi var orðið og orðið var hja…”
A man walks. A man walks in. A church. A man walks into a church. Peeled and scraped iconography clings to an arch. “Í upphafi var orðið og orðið var hja…” A man walks in and sits down. Many bodies sit around…