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Making Of An Artist: Language, Creativity & Space Time With Tonik Ensemble
Anton Kaldal is the mind behind Tonik Ensemble, whose simmering, lush electronic album ‘Snapshots’ was named the Grapevine’s Album of the Year in 2015. Here, Anton talks us through some formative influences that helped him become the artist he is today. Short:…
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Airwaves Tipsters: Tonik Ensemble
Anton Kaldal is the man behind Tonik Ensemble: an acclaimed Reykjavík-based producer who’s last LP, ‘Snapshots’, won Reykjavík Grapevine’s album of the year award in 2015. We caught up with him to find out what he’s excited about at Airwaves 2016. Snapshots…
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Straumur: The Voice Of A (de)Generation
The find of February for us was local band kef LAVÍK. Although they didn’t perform at Sónar, they were there in spirit, as a song they produced and performed on was a part of the Vaginaboys show. They sound like a more…
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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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“The Soundscape Of Now”: Tonik Ensemble On Holly Herndon
As I struggled to comprehend the reference-laden visual language and chaotic sonic landscape of Holly Herndon’s Sónar show last night, a friend tried to guide me through it. When empty-eyed theatre masks started spawning ad infinitum on the big screen behind the…
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Straumur’s Definitive List Of 2015’s Best Albums And Songs
Us Straumur guys would like to wish all of our readers a happy new musical year! With that out of the way, let’s dig into the recent past to uncover our top five favourite Icelandic albums and songs of last year. The…
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A Space Of Colour: Tonik Ensemble On Making The Album Of 2015
Sometimes, “dance music” goes beyond its implied mission of moving people’s feet, and moves them in other ways, too. Grapevine’s album of the year 2015—Tonik Ensemble’s ’Snapshots’—does just that. An educated, simmering take on house-techno-pop, it’s a lush production of cello, saxophone…
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Sónar Unveil More Exciting Lineup Additions
With the 2016 Sonar festival only four weeks away, the festival has released the final additions to the festival lineup. If you’ve been reading about our 2016 music awards in the new issue, you’ll be pleased to see Tonik added the lineup.…
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YAMAHO’s Airwaves Highlights Of The Day
Kött grá pje at 15:00 at Hlemmur Square: A rapper with long hair… Need I say more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRv7XWJnZs Dr Gunni at 16:00 at Kaffihús Vesterbæjar or at 20:50 at Gamla Bíó: A man that writes a song about farts is not a…
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That First Day Of Iceland Airwaves: Eleven Perspectives
Wow! Grapevine’s super-intense, in-depth coverage of Iceland Airwaves 2015 is underway! We’re already going slightly mad trying to convey all of the everything that’s going on. We’re already infatuated with several bands, acts, musicians, performers and/or persons. We’re already feeling like—try as…
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Download This: “Imprints” By Tonik Ensemble
Our track of the issue features all the best of what Tonik Ensemble (Anton Kaldal Ágústsson, and a host of contributing collaborators) can do in the studio. The beat is steady, a driving force of welcome techno staples, overlaid with deftly placed…
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Happening Tonight: Tonik Ensemble / Asonat
Minimalist electronic guru Tonik will be working his club-friendly magic at Húrra, where he’ll be sure to put on an atmospheric show with his ensemble of musicians (hence Tonik Ensemble). He’ll likely be performing songs off his debut album ‘Snapshots’, which attempts…
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STRAUMUR: The Best Of 2015, So Far!
For our contribution to the Grapevine’s annual Best of Reykjavík issue, we reflect on the best of the Icelandic music scene in 2015, so far… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePi1vccVGyg Best summer jam: Jón Þór’s “Stelpur” “Stelpur” (“Girls”) is an up-tempo guitardriven number about being wasted in…
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Nature Calling: Get Ready For Extreme Chill 2015
Hello, my name is Pan Thorarensen. I am a musician and co-founder of the Extreme Chill Festival, an annual electronic music event in Snæfellsnes, by the glacier Snæfellsjökull. As our next edition is just around the corner, I wanted to tell you…
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Snapshots
While Anton Kaldal Ágústsson has released quite a bit of music as Tonik over the years, ‘Snapshots’ is his debute venture as Tonik Ensemble. The album is centred on the concept of synaesthesia, a condition wherein sounds involuntarily evoke an experience of…
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Yes, We Will Be Your Iceland Airwaves 2015 HQ!
With Iceland Airwaves 2015 already looking all sorts of amazing, with artists like Ariel Pink, Björk, GusGus, Pink Street Boys, M-Band and Sóley set to perform, we are happy to announce that The Reykjavík Grapevine will once again serve as your main source of…
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Sónar Reykjavík: The Backstage Portraits
The glitter is gone, your hangover has subsided and Sónar Reykjavík 2015 is a wrap! By most accounts, it was a great weekend that had something for everyone. Instead of the usual concert coverage, I decided to focus on artist portraits. “Why…
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It’s SNR RVK Time!
One of the darkest and dullest months of every year is unquestionably February. But, rejoice! We now have something to look forward to: The Sónar Reykjavík Music Festival, set to blow up Harpa on February 12-14 (check out Grapevine’s special Sónar pullout…
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Hear M-Band’s Sónar Picks
After Sigga of Sísy Éy told us her five most-wanted acts on the Sónar Reykjavík lineup, here are the next five. Below are some bands that our album-of-2014 winner M-Band, aka Hörður Már Bjarnason, will be losing his pants to. Says he:…
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A Tonik For All Ills
Tonik, aka Icelandic producer Anton Kaldal, has given the world a chance to hear his new album Snapshots. It’s a real treat, too – a lush, beautifully produced electronica LP with a range of outstanding guest performances. It’s streaming in full below,…
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Hear Our First Sónar Podcast, Feat. Tonik
Sónar Reykjavík 2015 is just around the corner, and who better to guide us through the performers on show than the mastermind behind one of the Icelandic bands playing the festival? In the first of a series of Sónar-related podcasts, we sat…
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Full Sónar Lineup Unveiled, Including 27 More Icelandic Acts
The 2015 Sónar festival has revealed the final 27 names for their 2015 lineup. All of them are from the home team, representing a diverse range of Iceland’s brightest talents. So in addition to the “HERE COMES THE DROP” bass wibbles of…
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No Usual Suspects
Árstíðir dj flugvél og geimskip Fufanu Júníus Meyvant Kaleo Kiasmos Low Roar M-Band Óbó Rökkurró Samaris Skálmöld Sóley Sólstafir Tonik Ensemble Vök Ylja Young Karin These are the eighteen Icelandic artists and bands confirmed for Eurosonic 2015, the Dutch ‘festival of…