Blue Foundation released a new single, the first one in over 2 years: Enemy. Sounds different… The full song is available on the band’s myspace page, with another track (Watch You Sleeping) from their new album, Life Of A ghost, set to be released on September 24.
Blue Foundation will be on the road across Scandinavia this fall. More info on their website.
Two young and talented Swedish photographer I like: Sannah Kvist (blog, flickr) and Gustav Gustaffson (myspace).
OK, this is kind of a shameless plug… Angryape offers a free download from Prince Valium’s latest album Andlaus: Crying Hearts. My better half wrote the lyrics and sings.
Ungdomshuset, in Copenhagen, was an artists and activists squat since the 80s. In March of this year, the municipality decided to give it an end, evicted the occupants and destroyed the building.
Users and supporters have since protested, sometimes violently. At some point a support concert was organized, Blue Foundation participated, playing an unreleased song that I can’t get out of my head: Voices. The video is neat, too.
Update: This song is part of a mini-album called Dead People’s Choice.
We don’t have much about Faroese and that’s a shame, because they have such a high cool people ratio over their population. So there…
Teitur is one of them. He has already released two albums, won a few music awards, opened for folk stars, enough to give this 30 year old’s name all its meaning (teitur means happy in Old Norse).
Teitur decided, for his third album, to drop big major (Universal), big recording studios, … and to sing in his native language. The interesting result is Káta hornið, released in Scandinavia only by the local label Tutl.
Going to Reykjavík, Copenhagen, Helsinki, … and not sure about the night life dress code? Here’s a selection of street fashion specialized blogs. Some crazy looks and awesome photographs:
Heima is Sigur Rós’ latest tour captured on film, to be released soon on DVD.
A website has been launched. No details to be found yet, except a truly beautiful trailer.
Our beloved Múm has pulled off a fantastic new track. Listen to “Moon Pulls” at Kwadratuur jukebox. The rumour has it that the track will be removed from the service shortly, so be quick!
Also Múm have updated their Myspace profile, with videos and other goods. For example, this documentation of the composing process. Gotta love them!
Human chocolate is a project split from Aprox.. While Aprox. used to be the indie pop project with a twist of IDM and Human Chocolate NOT EXIST, now Human Chocolate is the indie electro pop project, and Aprox. is the weird IDM project. Or… something like this!Since you probably know neither one, Human Chocolate as well as Aprox. are projects of the same dude, Julius from Helsinki Finland. This guy is a real wizard in singing, beatboxing, glitch beats & tricks, probably all musical equipment, etcetra etcetra, with his outstanding live performances. A true multitalent!
This person is also the organizer of the free electronic music festival Sähköjänis, held in Finland annually at the late summer. Tons of indie music, all for absolutely free! So make sure to pay a visit if you happen to be around at the time! More information likely to come.
Although Iceland is a beautiful country, has the cleanest air, best water and the most beautiful women, there are days that many Icelanders wish they lived elsewhere. In fact, this includes most if not all days between september and june, when the wind blows fiercely from all directions, and showels snow, sleet, rain or hail in your face and through every crack and crevice in your clothes. It’s dark when you wake up and go to work, and dark when you go home again. Then we wish we’d been born in Hawaii or Honolulu.With this fact in mind a young and talented musician named Magnús Þór wrote a song which was released on his debut album back in 1972. He used the artist name Megas and the album was also named Megas. This first album of his spawned heated discussions and is still the subject of much controversy, because he dared to poke mercyless fun at Iceland’s greatest heroes; the national poet, the hero of indiependence, the fierce warriors of the Icelandic sagas and last but not least Ingólfur Arnarson, the founder of Reykjavík, the nations now proud capital.
In the song he says that we speak fondly of this Ingólfur in speeches, but deep down inside we wish that his ship had sunk on the way here; meaning that he did us no favour when settling this miserably windy rock in the middle of nowhere.
Megas has since had a colorful and no less controversial career in music, he’s been branded a drug-addict and a pervert, but is still releasing records, that I, for one, enjoy mightily. And despite this controversy he is generally regarded as a master songwriter and an admirable poet.
Enter Magga Stína who’s also a highly talented musician, who first sprang onto the stage in around 1989 with her band Risaeðlan. The band was signed to the Sugarcubes’ Bad Taste label and released a few poptastic and fun albums, chock full of unusual popsongs laden with violins, saxophones and bongos. A few weeks ago she released an album which is a tribute to Megas, containing eleven of his songs sung by her, some of them previously unreleased. And one of them is the controversial song about Iceland’s first settler, and here I offer you both versions of this beautiful song, which I think may be enjoyable to listen to though you may not understand the lyrics. And tell me who you think is a better singer! :o)
Magga Stína - Um óþarflega fundvísi Ingólfs Arnarsonar
Megas - Um óþarflega fundvísi Ingólfs Arnarsonar