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I played some records at Derrick Gee’s house!

Been a fan of Derrick Gee for a while and can honestly say he has introduced me to a lot of great music. So I was thrilled to receive an invitation to be a guest on his Solid Air show while I was in Australia on tour with Kiasmos. We spoke about the power of music to heal and transform us and, to be honest, could have talked for hours.

Don’t miss this one!

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For your Sunday – A Dawning, the film Directed by Níall O’Brien.

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For your Sunday, Island Songs - the film.

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The beautiful Skissur – the collection just turned one year old.
It was through your requests that we decided to finally collect all of these into a single book and I’m so thankful for the reception – now and in the past – for the Skissur series.


As always, if you find yourself playing anything from the book, please tag me, I’d love to see it. As a little anniversary gift, below you can find a download of Words of Amber.


A fitting song for the coming fall I think.


Download here: tr.ee/SkissurSheet

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After being unavailable for quite some time now, Erased Tapes just did a re-pressing of Found Songs on this beautiful clear vinyl! In 2009 I made this album as a part of an attempt to escape my perfectionist tendencies and see what would happen if I forced myself to write, record and release a song per day every day for a week.

Get it via my webstore here: tr.ee/OAstore
Alda Music record store in Iceland has a few signed copies!

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So proud of ‪@sandrayati‬ who is releasing her second studio album INHABIT today while also being 37 weeks pregnant with our first child! I am in awe of her strength and persistence through this process and it is my life’s greatest fortune to get to be a part of this journey. The music speaks of the cycles of our lives and we are experiencing that whirlwind stronger than ever these days.

INHABIT is a gorgeous album that seamlessly weaves together all the different strands of Sandrayati’s life. Congratulations to everyone involved!

sandrayati.lnk.to/INHABIT

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A look through an amazing year with ‪@Kiasmos‬ 
Thanks everyone who came out this year, we got to see so many beautiful places and faces. Taking a little break from live shows now but you can catch ‪@JanusRasmussen‬ around the world this winter with his solo work and DJ sets!

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For A Dawning we were so lucky to have Máni Sigfússon bring Eoin’s drawings - featured in the artwork of the album - to life by placing them in environments relevant to the story of the album. Every song has a story and every visual has a reason.

You can find the full length versions of all of the visualisers here: tr.ee/ADvisual

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“Don’t let that light outrun us yet,
it feels like this war is our dawning”

The title track on A Dawning and some of my favourite lyrics Eoin ever wrote. The writing process was silent, unspoken, never planned.. Weaving layers of meaning that took me a while to get to the core of.

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Before his passing, Eoin presented me and Sandra with a gift of three artworks he had made for us that represented our time together in Iceland and what we went through there. As the album started to take form and became a meditation on friendship, brotherhood, community, it felt appropriate to bring these drawings into the album’s artwork. The main album cover is the second drawing in the series, which he said represented our home in Iceland - a shelter, a safe haven.

That is also what this album, my work with Eoin, has become for me. A safe place where i’ve been allowed to feel everything, feel him there, feel him missing.

A Dawning is out everywhere you listen to music: olafurarnalds.lnk.to/ADawningBio2

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