Viktor Orri Árnason
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66 Degrees of Sound: Saturday Morning Mix #2 — Monday Mix-Up Edition
Oh no we messed up! “We” being Rex’s internet in their new place, as moving and technology didn’t go hand in hand. Wish we could blame Mercury-in-Gatorade for it but it wasn’t even there. So last week’s Saturday Morning Mix comes to…
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Man In The Age Of Immortality: Viktor Orri Árnason Composes A Future With Eternal Life
The Epic of Gilgamesh, written around 2100 BCE and one of the earliest examples of human literature, tells the tale of a thwarted search for immortality. In it, the raucous King Gilgamesh travels to the end of the world in order to…
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Grapevine Playlist: Eternal Life, A Funeral Dirge And A Love Letter
Buck the algorithm, and let The Grapevine pick your playlist. Kælan Mikla – Sólstöður This track demonstrates that Kælan Mikla keeps evolving in ever-improving directions. Slaps like a funeral dirge but carries the power of a blizzard on the horizon heading quickly your way. We have…
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Emotional, Intimate, A Little Experimental: ‘Vast’ Is A Work Of Ambient Art
Viktor Orri Árnason is probably best known in Iceland for his work in the band Hjaltalín, but lately, he’s been doing his own thing. Most recently, his own thing is collaborating with fellow Berlin resident and musician Yair Elazar Glotman to create…
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The Endless Bubble Of Overblown Expectations
In the spring of 2007, when the Icelandic financial bubble was reaching its peak, the Ministry of Industry held a press conference to announce it intended to undertake an environmental impact assessment of oil exploration off the coast of Northeast Iceland, near…