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1	play	Add to Playlist	Beginning End	2:23	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
2	play	Add to Playlist	Beygja Og Beygja	2:56	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
3	play	Add to Playlist	The Doomed, The Damned	4:00	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
4	play	Add to Playlist	Fight	3:28	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
5	play	Add to Playlist	I Can Love You In A Wheelchair Baby	2:18	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
6	play	Add to Playlist	Ku-u-i-po	2:50	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
7	play	Add to Playlist	Labbi	1:44	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
8	play	Add to Playlist	Sumarnótt	2:56	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
9	play	Add to Playlist	Til Eru Frae	3:52	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
10	play	Add to Playlist	Gít Stemm	2:28	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
11	play	Add to Playlist	Sweaty In The Sunshine	2:55	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like
12	play	Add to Playlist	Beginning End (Outro)	2:24	€0.89	Buy Share This Song like

Album Info

Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to boil over because of all its energy, lust and sometimes also funniness. A record, equally peculiar as idiosyncratic. As the pot is that huge 26-year-old Benni Hemm Hemm throws all possible ingredients in. And it is that peculiar as all the different ingredients do not spoil the paste in the end. It's a little big band with little big songs. The greatest of them takes only 2 minutes and 58 seconds: "Beygja Og Beygja". ??To name all the different influences of the record would be similarly pointless as necessary: First there is this austere, shining sound of the Icelandic language ("Til Eru Fræ"). There is further the likeable pureness of three accords, of the direct folk-song "I can love you in a wheelchair, Baby"), there is the prairie's melancholy, the howling steel-guitar ("Fight"). And there is finally the overwhelming joy of playing of so called Balkan-Folk. It is said that the latter shall not be that different to some traditional songs from Iceland. There is the emphatic brass section of Northern Soul. And, last but not least, there is a Benni Hemm Hemm who holds all that together, who once is the inward, suffering man, the passionate narrator, and then the crafty entertainer. There are real, honest love-songs on this album. And there are songs one simply has to love. ??The tracks of this album were written during a stay in Italy lasting several months. Maybe it was this new, distanced perspective on usual correlations and interrelations has contributed to the casual complexity of this debut-album. A debut-album, by the way, that was awarded as the best album of the island state on the occasion of the Icelandic Music Awards. Besides, Benni Hemm Hemm and his band were elected as the best newcomer. In September 2005 the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik for a first time. ??Now it is re-released on Sound of a Handshake, Morr Music's small, curious sister. A new home for an album that will grow with each time one listens to it. Equally as Benni Hemm Hemm's band changes with each concert. In the centre there is Benni with his fervour, a mischievous smile, his acoustic guitar and his arrangements. Around him there are guitars, glockenspiel and the brass section. Around him there are raging waves and a deep, pure sea. You should listen to this record loudly. And often, but you will find that out by yourself anyway. ?

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