The Murderers (Morðingjarnir) are working on an Album too

The punk band Morðingjarnir (The Murderers) is working on new material for a 3. Studio Album. Previous Album was released on Kimi Records Label, “Áfram Ísland” (transl. Go ahead Iceland).
Recordings expected for May, release date in the summertime 2009.
They are experimenting with their style. New songs are strong, melodic & powerful. The lyrics are still in Icelandic, but maybe they record something in English.
Source: MySpace of the Band
www.myspace.com/mordingjarnir
Morðingjarnir @ Grand Rokk venue @ Purrkur Pillnikk tribute (October 2008)

New Hjaltalín Album

Hjaltalín recorded their New Album
The band Hjaltalín has recorded their 2. album @ Hljóðrita í Hafnarfirði with producer Sigurður (Siggi) Guðmundsson. Previous album “Sleepdrunk Seasons” was released in December 2007 on Kimi Records Label. First single will be the song “Suitcase Man” that will be released in April.
Source: Morgunbladid
www.mbl.is
Live @ John Dee @ By:Larm Festival Norway (2009)

Upcoming Hjaltalín Gigs in April & May in Europe:
11. April @ 8:00P @ Motel Mozaique festival Rotterdam
12. April @ 11:30P @ Paradiso Amsterdam
13. April @ 8:00P @ Molotov – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Hamburg
14. April @ 8:00P @ Centraltheater – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Leipzig
15. April @ 8:00P @ Prater – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Berlin
16. April @ 8:00 @ P Flex – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Wien
17. April @8:00P @ E-Werk – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Erlangen
18. April @ 8:00P @ Karlstorbahnhof – Haldern Pop Tour w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums and Marching Band Heidelberg
19. April @ 8:00P @ Jugendheim – Haldern Pop Tour (Festival press conference) Haldern
21. April @ 8:00P @ Nouveau Casino Paris
29. May @ 8:00P @ Europavox Festival Clermont
www.myspace.com/hjaltalinband
www.kimirecords.net

Review by Dave Simpson of Emiliana Torrini Concert @ Ruby Lounge, Manchester in The Guardian

Emiliana Torrini @ Ruby Lounge, Manchester 12. March 2009
By Dave Simpson
The Guardian
With her cutesy dress and scraped-back hair, Icelandic songstress Torrini looks like butter wouldn’t melt. However, beneath the prim exterior lurks a very bad girl. “It was pure happiness for me,” she says, describing a situation involving “cocktails and dirty men”.
Moments later, she’s asking for whisky and politely introducing “Bleeder” as “a song about fucking”. Somehow, it’s unsurprising that she co-wrote Kylie‘s raunchy epic, “Slow“. This sort of playfulness is rampant in her music, as she darts from quirky electronica to raging Pink Floyd/New Order atmospheric rock to haunting lullabies. “Me and Armini” – the title track of her recent album – should see Torrini joining the select band of female singers who have had whopping hits with reggae. The ridiculously catchy “Jungle Drum” could be Björk given a Bo Diddley beat; however, Torrini confesses to “a problem” with the dance she was supposed to be doing to it. “It all went wrong down there,” she quips.

She sings with her eyes closed and a half-narcotic, half-sexual smile, and between songs suggests that it’s time she changed the “just turned 21” line in 1999’s “Unemployed in Summertime” because she’s almost 32 now and “young people are silly”.Her music changes so much that some moments inevitably fare better than others – the acoustic numbers sound a bit identikit after an hour. But just as the cutesy-rudey persona threatens to grate, she unleashes another intriguing twist.”This is for my Spanish pervert,” she says. “It’s a long story.”
Source:
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/mar/12/review-emiliana-torrini

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar rehearsing for Gling Gló performance @ Hotel Borg

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar rehearsing for a gig @ Hotel Borg, downtown in the heart of Reykjavik anno 1990.
“Luktar Gvendur“of the “Gling Gló” Jazz Album, released in 1990
www.youtube.com/v/6iqNjcQT_UM&hl&fmt=18

Lyrics
Hann veitti birtu á bádar hendur,
um baeinn sérhvert kvöld
hann luktar Gvendur á liðinni öld

Á gráum hærum gloggt var kenndur
vid glampa á ljosafjöld
hann luktar Gvendur á lidinni öld

Hann heyrdist ganga hægt og hljótt
um hverja götu fram á nott
Hans hjartasá med bros á brá

ef ungan sveinn og yngismey
hann adeins sá hann kveikti ei
en eftirlét theim rókkur skuggablá

Í endur minning æskutid
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hann aftur leit, en ástmey blid
Hann örmum vafði fast svo ung og smá

Hann veitti birtu á bádar hendur
um bæinn sérhvert kvöld
hann luktar Gvendur á lidinni öld

Hann heyrdist ganga haegt og hljótt
um hverja götu fram á nott
Hans hjartasá med bros á brá

ef ungan sveinn og yngismey
hann adeins sá hann kveikti ei
en eftirlét theim rókkur skuggablá

Í endur minning aeskutid
hann aftur leit, en ástmey blid
Hann örmum vafði fast svo ung og smá

Hann veitti birtu á bádar hendur
um baeinn sérhvert kvöld
hann luktar Gvendur á lidinni öl

Music Videos Shot in Iceland – Part 11: Milow

Belgian (Flemish) artist Milow went to Iceland to shoot a Music Video. Unfortunately he got hurt when his jeep crashed nearby Höfn.
“Out of my hands“
www.youtube.com/v/YTBKXiNA2dE&hl&fmt=18