Legacy

Have to flip my sleeping rhythm for a single night shift. Luckily I've got the aid of some friends, a few beers, sauna and great music on my side.

This, with an Icelander singing along... priceless.

Laundry

Guess what will spin under the needle today as I do some laundry. This year is too full of awesome releases...

Videos of music

Rarely have I given music videos the attention that they actually deserve. I've always watched very little TV and videos of bands belonging to my preferred genres probably never made it to MTV's top10. This has changed a lot with the internet and services like the tubes of you. Yet still I mostly ignore the videos when I check out some new band's music or new music of an old band. Some videos, however, have left me gaping at their awesomeness. Solstafir's Fjara I've already linked, so instead of that I'll provide you with some other eye-, soul- and ear-catching audiovisual gems.

First off is one that a friend just shared with me and that also inspired this post. The scale of the nostalgia it evoked almost brought me to tears. Almost. Supposedly the band has some other good one's, but I haven't checked them out yet.

Next up is something that followed an awesome night in the company of some of the greatest people on earth. We'd enjoyed delicious food, wine and coffee, it was around 4 am and one of my friends decided to show us this. It was beautiful then and every time since it has not only spellbound me with it's expressiveness, but also brought the warm memories of that initial night to mind. They also have other great videos, so look up White Winter Hymnal and Mykonos, if you're up to it.

Last but not least is one of my long time favorites. It's message is also that of nostalgia and it always brings a smile on my face. And how cool is it that Icelandic has a verb for "jumping into puddles"?!?

From one thing to something else

So I was in a rush, typing an essay on innovation policy and public financing of private r&d innovation activities, listening to the Solar Field's newest album Until We Meet The Sky. It was more background music, I wasn't really paying it a lot of attention as I'd listened through the album before with more mind (plus, it's downtempo spaceambient whatnot...).  Then I noticed that the title track of the album started playing and my focus shifted from the essay to the music. I got a very Sigur Ros vibe from it and decided to check what they've been up to... Surprisingly (not), they'd just turned out a new album and of course I was forced to check some of it out. I'm not going to get into that now, maybe once I get my hands on the actual thing, but here's the Solar Fields' song and Sigur Ros' "Glosoli". Shockingly similar, yet so different.

Oh... and I really should get back to that essay... darns.