Hlynur Aðils VILMARSSON Archive

“Raindamage” = Music of Valgeir SIGURDŎSSON, Úlfur HANSSON, Hlynur Aðils VILMARSSON – Nordic Affect – Sono Luminus

by Audiophile Audition | Apr 30, 2017 | Classical CD Reviews

Some very reflective and ‘icy’ sounds sure to get your attention. “Raindamage” = Valgeir SIGURDŎSSON: Raindamage; Antigravity; Úlfur HANSSON: ÞỲÐ; Skin Continuum; Hlynur Aðils VILMARSSON: Noa::Ems; [:n:] – Nordic Affect – Sono Luminus SLE-70008 [Distr. by Naxos], 39:06, (2/24/2017) ***1/2: I literally closed my eyes while listening to this very picturesque and very unusual set of music from Iceland and imagined ice, cold, aurora and maybe even foreboding. Credit the three innovative composers represented here for creating music that is decidedly non-mainstream and yet very captivating and imagery provoking. To be sure not all listeners will like this and might not even make it past the occasional strident bursts of sound; of dissonance; of intrusions into the ether of solitude. But if you have heard a lot of modern music and especially from one of the most exciting “new” sources of the new and usual – Iceland – then you may be taken in as I was. I think it is the very nature of Iceland the country and culture to seem and feel isolated and unique. This is a country with almost literally no trees, an island long fault line and volcanic rift and a native language that is […]