Rodney Greenblat
This music is strange and wonderful. It's like some kind of very abstract modernist composition but at the same time it sounds ancient as if created by primitive dwellers of a mysterious forrest. The simple instruments are refreshing and alive. Inspiring music because it follows no "musical" rules that I can think of. Thank you!
Favorite track: Dreki 1. Stig.
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Vintage off-white recycled out of old French excercise school books from the 1950's. Made by Sam T. Rees using 1940's DIY printers and blue duplo ink. Each one is slightly different from the next.
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Limited edition CD-R in hand made packaging - Peach Edition
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Peach edition. in hand made packaging - using ancient DIY printers and blue duplo ink. Artwork by Sam T. Rees. Each one is slightly different from the next.
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Limited Edition CD-R in Hand Made Packaging - White Lined
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Limited Edition CD-R hand made by Sam T. Rees on white lined paper. Printed with blue duploe ink. Each one is unique.
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Chapter 33 of the Saga of Ólafur Tryggvason in Heimskringla by the 13th-century writer and poet Snorri Sturluson describes the fury of the settlers of Iceland when the then king of Denmark, Haraldur Gormsson, confiscated all the sheep of a few Icelandic men who were shipwrecked in Denmark. According to Snorri Sturluson, a law was passed in Iceland that each and every person in Iceland should compose a níðvísa (a poem of mockery) about the king of Denmark for this reason.
The king of Denmark, having suffered the consequences of this enchanted mockery, decides to send a sorcerer to swim over to Iceland in the form of a whale. However, in every corner of the land he is met by strange creatures known as wights or land wights, the landvættir, that hinder his quest.
From the east lumbers a poison-spewing dragon or giant lizard, trailed by swarms of reptiles and amphibians. Out of the north hurtles a massive vulture or other large bird, bringing flocks of smaller birds. A giant ox leads a herd of wights that drives the sorcerer away from the west, and a towering giant heads the wights that bar entry to the south. Since then, Iceland has taken to these wights and expresses gratitude on every coin minted in Iceland.
Some say they represent the four gospels; others say that they represent older signs of astrological significance. Still others suggest that they are representatives of the four elements.
Produced by Albert Finnbogason and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
Recording and mixing by Albert Finnbogason
Mastering by Ryan Ross Smith
Designed by Studio Caps Lock in A Black Hole
This project is supported by Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education Artist Salary Fund’s Music Fund (Starfslaun listamanna) and the Music Funds special Covid-relief program (átaksverkefni Tónlistarsjóðs). Our gratitude is bottomless.
Also thanks to Davíð Brynjar Franzson, Sam Pluta, Jeff Snyder, Jonathan Pfeffer, Travis Johns, Neskirkja, Mengi, Aðalheiður and Alþýðuhúsið Siglufirði, Katelin Marit Parsons, Þorlákur Benjamín Guðmundsson, Sangitamiya, Alee Karim, Claudia Overesch and Kjartan Sveinsson.
In his search for a music with neither grids nor straight lines, Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson incorporates
digital dynamic screen scores or animated notation to express his inability to adapt to the convenient society. His interest in Icelandic folksong has fueled his belief in life without barlines or equal distances and no-grid approach to music....more
Charles Ross is a Scottish composer living in Eastern Iceland who for a number of years has run his own ensemble Stelkur. He's in a league all of his own. Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson
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“With Julius, he was based in repetition, but here was a spirit of openness and improvisation. His scores, if they were written out that way, were often like jazz scores. He loved multiplying instruments – four pianos, ten cellos – so there was a real feeling of the presence of the instrument, not just using an instrument in some kind of equation, as a means to an end.” ~ Mary Jane Leach
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