Draumalandið by Valgeir Sigurðsson

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by Valgeir Sigurðsson

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1	play	Add to Playlist	Grýlukvæði	4:51	€2.00	x	Buy Share This Song like
2	play	Add to Playlist	Dreamland	3:46	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
3	play	Add to Playlist	Past Tundra	5:06	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
4	play	Add to Playlist	"I offer prosperity and eternal life..."	1:51	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
5	play	Add to Playlist	Laxness	1:20	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
6	play	Add to Playlist	Hot Ground, Cold	1:46	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
7	play	Add to Playlist	Draumaland	2:28	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
8	play	Add to Playlist	Economic Hitman	1:15	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
9	play	Add to Playlist	Cold Ground, Hot	4:43	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
10	play	Add to Playlist	Beyond The Moss	2:55	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
11	play	Add to Playlist	Nowhere Land	4:54	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like
12	play	Add to Playlist	Helter Smelter	4:17	€2.00		Buy Share This Song like

Album Info

Valgeir Sigurðsson has made his name as an exponent of musical subtlety. As an engineer and producer, he's often focused on the intimate, the miniature. On his solo debut Ekvílibríum, his songwriting and composition tended towards the muted or the oblique. His best-known work is punctuated with question marks and ellipses, and not so many exclamation points.

But this is only one side of his musical capabilites. Draumalandið (“Dreamland”), a documentary about the exploitation of Iceland's natural resources, tells a story about huge things—the fortunes of a whole nation; the destruction of vast landscapes; and the global economic forces, greater still than any nation, that fuel it all—and for his soundtrack to the film, Valgeir has brought out a heavier set of tools. His entire roster of Bedroom Community labelmates contributes in some way to the creation of the score: classical composers Nico Muhly and Daníel Bjarnason, industrial wizard Ben Frost, and American folksinger Sam Amidon, along with a host of others, and the small orchestra assembled for the record swells from moments of expansive beauty into massive, surging symphonic force. Its harmonies are anxious, pulsing, driven.

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'Here, Sigurðsson adopts a restrained approach to the soundtrack to a particularly grave film, and he does so with great lucidity, underlying the content with powerful yet discreet touches. His greatest achievement is to manage to give the music an identity away from the images it was written for. ' 4.5/5 -The Milk Factory

'On Draumalandid, a soundtrack for a new Icelandic environmental documentary, Valgeir Sigurðsson goes the extra mile to produce work that stands up against the best of its genre.' 7.3/10 -Pitchfork

'..everything about this collection of feelings, emotions and resonant creative constructions is pretty much immaculate.' -The Reykjavík Grapevine

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