For his second album …and they have escaped the weight of darkness, cinematic ivory-tinkler Ólafur Arnalds has ever-so-slightly broadened his instrumental palette, expanding beyond the ...
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that on the phone Ólafur Arnalds comes across as shy and mild-mannered, slightly bemused even at the attention that’s been placed on his fledgling career. But ...
"I'm a guy from a small town of like, 5,000 people in Iceland. The Grammys were not on my radar of things that might be possible in life." By Katie Bain Editors note: In this series, Billboard Dance ...
Iceland has become known for churning out strange beauty in music, from Sigur Ros to Bjork and producer/composer Olafur Arnalds. Arnalds, who started off his career as a metal drummer, made the ...
With his main title theme for Defending Jacob, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds aimed to establish the “fragility” and “melancholy” of parents caught up in a nightmare. Created by Mark Bomback, and ...
In classical music, there are people who dedicate whole lifetimes to their art and don’t come close to making an impact on the culture. Then there are the likes of Ólafur Arnalds. At only 20 years of ...
On a damp morning in Reykjavík, a hungover Olafur Arnalds is reflecting on one of the many upsides of life as a musician in Iceland. "It's easy to sell a lot of CDs here," he says, "because we all ...
Ólafur Arnalds connected with local musicians across his home country to create a community-based portrait of Icelandic music on Island Songs, he tells Gabríel Benjamin. As the rain beats heavily down ...
The conversations of nearly a hundred people filled the upstairs hall of the Ancienne Belgique on a cold February night in Brussels. The crowd mingled, most of them there for headliner Nick Mulvey of ...
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