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Crookers and Steed Lord teamed up for Transilvania
the 9th episode of The Weird Girls Project

The Weird Girls of Reykjavík is a collective created and headed by concept artist Kitty Von-Sometime. It evolves episode by episode and the members mix between those involved from the beginning and new members increasing with every event. The ages range from 18 to 34 years and the girls all live in or have close connections with Iceland.

Each episode is planned by Kitty for approximately three months with the members knowing as little as is possible about the event outside of the date. This includes the location and the costumes. As standard there will be a photo shoot and they are aware they will be filmed. The main element of the project is ‘reaction to the unknown’.

This episode produced a commissioned video for Crookers. The majority of the filming took place in and on Höfðatorg – Iceland’s tallest building. The Icelandic winter proved both stunning and a challenge – the temperature dropped below minus twelve but the elongated golden sunset and sunrise threw every colour possible into the sky.

Music from the Moon is an intercultural music and puppet show for children. In 2006, the Hypno Theatre travelled to Iceland and remote locations in Greenland to perform their show. The film accompanies the group on their journey through Arctic landscapes. Look forward to exceptional concerts and personal moments with Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Dagur Kári and other stars of the Icelandic and Greenlandic music scenes and learn about the Nordic attitude towards music and creativity.

Featuring: Emilíana Torrini, Benni Hemm Hemm, Members of Sigur Rós, Members of Múm, Eiríkur Orri, Helmus und Dalli, Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir, Dagur Kári, Slowblow, Ole Kristiansen, Naneruaq, Hypno Theatre, Hjörleifur Jónsson, Magdalena Mayas, Jan Terstegen, Ravi Srinivasan, Frances Jane Ball, Mandy Burton, …

for some reason I’m listening a lotta Icalandic music these days
this song is my fave ATM
really addictive melody, brilliant name, sweet video ;)

here is Bang Gang’s The World Is Gray
directed by Taki Bibelas

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Icelandic release of Sigur Ros‘
breakthrough album Agaetis Byrjun, Sigur Ros have made available
two exclusive live performances from the original launch party
concert at the Icelandic Opera House on the night of June 10, 1999 -
back when few people outside Reykjavik hadn’t the foggiest clue who
they were. Nyja Lagid video – filmed originally for Icelandic TV and unseen
for years, this shows the boys when they really were still boys,
performing a song that never made it onto Agaetis Byrjun (or any
subsequent album) and disappeared from their set-list shortly after
this date. The film also records the last show by original drummer
Gusti. The audio of this live recording was featured on Sigur Ros’s
first ex-Iceland release, the Svefn-G-Englar EP.

Jump over to the Sigur Ros site to download Hafssól from the same concert as a free mp3.

Iceland Music Export presents Made in Iceland CD release and YAIC Music Conference coinciding with 10th anniversary of Iceland Airwaves Festival, October 15th-18th in Reykjavik, featuring the most eclectic up-and-coming talent of the Iceland music spectrum!

Iceland delivers a plethora of the coolest musical landmarks for the biggest, bangin’ end to the year 2008! 

"It’s hard to believe anything with a beat could grow in a landscape as otherworldly and physically inhospitable as that of Iceland. Mother Nature, in all her harshest majesty, is the headline act here. She is not easily upstaged. Nevertheless, in a small rehearsal space on a snowy, windblown side street in central Reykjavik, a local band called the Sugarcubes is busy proving that rock & roll is not only alive and well here but mutating into shapes as odd and wondrous as the geologist’s paradise outside."
David Fricke, Rolling Stone, July 1988

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