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Múm
Múm (stylized in lowercase) () is an Icelandic indietronica band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. History The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, who were joined by twin sisters Gyða and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir. According to Kristín, the band's name was not intended to mean anything. Gyða left the band to return to her studies after the release of ''Finally We Are No One''. In early 2006, Kristín also left the band, although it was not officially announced until 23 November of that year. With only Tynes and Smárason remaining in the group, a large group of new musicians were brought on board: guitarist/vocalist/violinist Ólöf Arnalds, trumpet/keyboard player Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson, vocalist/ cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mr. Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finally We Are No One
''Finally We Are No One'' is the second studio album by Icelandic band Múm. It was released on 20 May 2002 by FatCat Records. In Iceland, the Smekkleysa label released ''Loksins erum við engin'', a limited edition of ''Finally We Are No One'' featuring alternate versions of the album's songs recorded in the Icelandic language. Production Múm worked on ''Finally We Are No One'' in Galtarviti, a lighthouse in the Westfjords. Inside the lighthouse, the band composed songs for the album, which they subsequently recorded in a studio. Explaining why they decided to work in Galtarviti, Múm member Gunnar Örn Tynes said: Critical reception ''Hot Press'' critic James Kelleher described ''Finally We Are No One'' as "a luscious 56-minute lullaby for troubled heads, sung quietly and played with delicate precision." '' Q'' found the album "utterly unique" and highlighted Múm's "curious combination of bright-eyed playfulness and maudlin moods", while in ''Rolling Stone'', Jon Caram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyða Valtýsdóttir
Gyða Valtýsdóttir (born 5 January 1982) is an Icelandic musician and multi-instrumentalist and winner of the 2019 Nordic Council Music Prize. She was an original member of the experimental music group Múm and has released four full length solo albums, created music for films, installations, theater and dance. Career Gyða began her music career in her early teens when she co-founded the experimental music pop-group Múm in the late 1990s together with Örvar Smárason, Gunnar Tynes and her twin sister Kristín Anna. She left the band after the release of ''Finally We Are No One'' (2002). In 2004 she graduated with B-Mus in instrumental studies from the Iceland University of the Arts where her main teacher was cellist Gunnar Kvaran. In 2004–2005 she continued studying classical music at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of St. Petersburg and in 2010 she graduated with a double master's degree from the Musik Akademie, Basel, Switzerland where her main teachers were the celli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
''Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy'' is the fourth studio album by múm. It was released via FatCat Records on 24 September 2007. It peaked at number 8 on ''Billboard''s Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The album marks a shift from the group's original style as it uses more live instruments than electronics, and there is a different vocal style, including male vocals. Almost two years prior to the release of this album, former lead singer of múm, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, departed from the band. According to reviews this is believed to be one reason for the break of style compared to earlier releases. Track listing Personnel Additional musicians * Samuli Kosminen – drums (on 1, 3, 4, 7, and 12) * Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson – trumpet (on 8 and 10) * Guðbjörg Hlin Guðmundsdóttir – violin * Þórarinn MárBaldursson – viola * Laufey Jensdóttir – violin * Gyða Valtýsdóttir Gyða Valtýsdóttir (born 5 January 1982) is an Icelandic musician and multi-instrumentalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauschka
Volker Bertelmann (born 1966) is a German pianist and composer who mainly performs and records under the name Hauschka. He is best known for his compositions for prepared piano. Early life Volker Bertelmann was born in Kreuztal, Germany. He grew up in the village of Ferndorf in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia. The fifth of six children, he discovered piano playing at the age of nine at church service. He began studying classical piano and continued taking lessons for the next ten years. Bertelmann formed his first rock band when he was fourteen. During the following years he was commissioned to compose music for television and sang in a number of other bands. After leaving school he moved to Cologne, where he began studying medicine and then switched to a course in business economics, but gave up both in order to concentrate on music. Career 1992-2003: Early career In 1992, Hauschka and his cousin formed the hip-hop duo God’s Favorite Dog, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hildur Guðnadóttir
Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O))). She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Hildur has gained international recognition for her film and television scores, including for ''Journey's End'' (2017), ''Mary Magdalene'' (2018), '' Sicario: Day of the Soldado'' (2018), Todd Field's ''Tár'' and Sarah Polley's '' Women Talking'' (both 2022). For her score to Todd Phillips' psychological drama film '' Joker'' (2019), she won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, making her the first solo female composer to win in all three. She is also known for her work on the HBO mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FatCat Records
FatCat Records is an English independent record label based in Brighton. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk, contemporary classical, noise and post-punk. Notable artists that have released music on the label include Sigur Rós, Múm, Animal Collective, Frightened Rabbit, Shopping, The Twilight Sad, Vashti Bunyan and We Were Promised Jetpacks. History 1989–2001 FatCat originally began in 1989 as a record store in Crawley, West Sussex, formed by Alex Knight, Dave Cawley and Andy Martin. It moved to central London in 1990, and originally specialised in Detroit and Chicago-based techno and house music. The store closed down in 1997, and the record label was born in its place, initially releasing dance and electronic 12"s. The label moved to Brighton in 2001. 2000s As well as Sigur Rós, another Icelandic band, Múm, were signed and proved successful for the label. The same year also saw the establishment of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Örn Tynes
Gunnar Örn Tynes is a founding member of the Icelandic experimental band múm. He is also a producer and a recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, .... References Gunnar Orn Tynes Living people 1979 births {{Iceland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason
Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason (born 1977) is a founding member of Icelandic experimental band múm, and has been a part-time member of other Icelandic bands such as Benni Hemm Hemm, Singapore Sling, Slowblow, Andhéri, Skakkamanage, FM Belfast and Represensitive Man. In Iceland, Örvar is also known as a poet and author. ''Gamall þrjótur, nýjir tímar'' ("Old villain, new times") a book of poetry was published in 2005 as a part of Nýhil's Nordic literature series. It was preceded by the critically acclaimed novella ''Úfin, strokin'' ("Ruffled, stroked"), released in 2005 and described as "a detective boy novel updated for modern girls". He studied screenwriting at FAMU in Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate .... Publications and discography * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ólöf Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds (born 4 January 1980) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and indie musician who has been active within the Icelandic music scene since the early 2000s. She was a touring member of múm for five years from 2003 before launching her solo career and has released three albums to date. She has collaborated with bands and artists such as Björk, Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Mugison, Slowblow and Skúli Sverrisson. Between 1988 and 2002, Ólöf studied violin and classical singing, and from 2002 to 2006 she studied composition and new media at Iceland Academy of the Arts. In 2007, her debut album ''Við Og Við'' was released by 12 Tónar. The album features a set of songs performed mostly in a traditional troubadour style. Her second album, '' Innundir skinni'', was released by One Little Independent Records in September 2010. Her third album is '' Sudden Elevation'' and was released (again by One Little Independent Records) in February 2013. ''Við og Við'' Ólöf's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FM Belfast
FM Belfast is an electro-pop band from Reykjavík, Iceland. Its members include Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir, Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson, Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason, Egill Eyjólfsson and Ívar Pétur Kjartansson. Iceland Music Export 
History FM Belfast formed in late 2005 as a duo of Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson (Plúseinn) and Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir, but didn't really get going properly until Árni Vilhjálmsson and Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason joined. The band was a studio project for some time until the Iceland ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cellist
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 and A3. The viola's four strings are each an octave higher. Music for the cello is generally written in the bass clef, with tenor clef, and treble clef used for higher-range passages. Played by a ''cellist'' or ''violoncellist'', it enjoys a large solo repertoire with and without accompaniment, as well as numerous concerti. As a solo instrument, the cello uses its whole range, from bass to soprano, and in chamber music such as string quartets and the orchestra's string section, it often plays the bass part, where it may be reinforced an octave lower by the double basses. Figured bass music of the Baroque-era typically assumes a cello, viola da gamba or bassoon as part of the basso continuo group alongside chordal instruments such as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussionist
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
