From the album: Stafnbúi
Released october 2012, by the icelandic label 12 Tónar
Rímur poetry is an important cultural heritage of the Icelandic nation. Steindór, the most distinguished Icelandic chanter of rímur, performs twelve of his favourite poems on this recording, accompanied by the mystical and haunting music of the award winning film composer Hilmar Örn. Many of the best Icelandic musicians appear on Stafnbúi, f.e. Sigríður Thorlacius from the band Hjaltalín, Páll frá Húsafelli who plays his stoneharps, and Örn Magnússon who plays on the old Icelandic violin called Langspil, and two string quartets with musicians from the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.
Includes a beautiful 80 page trilingual (Icelandic, English and German) informative hardback book describing the history of the rímur and excerpts of all the texts, plus spectacular photos from the Icelandic nature.
"The haunting collection Stafnbúi opens like a hymn from another time. And the vibrantly beating heart of it is of another time. This collection of traditional rímur poetry and music from Steindór Andersen and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, is a history lesson in the most affecting way. However, the significance and beauty of a recording like this is it does not feel like one. The arresting presence of Steindór’s voice captivates one’s attention the way staring at a snowy sea does, simple but deceivingly powerful. The longer you stare, the deeper you are drawn in.
Hilmar’s music is an intrinsic and intimate platform for Steindór. Its slow undulations call to mind the Icelandic landscape these poems originated from. Each piece is performed with enough emotion to deftly transcend the language barrier into an experience in of itself."
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Some info on Steindór Andersen and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson:
Steindór Andersen is the most distinguished Icelandic chanter of rímur. Under his presidency the rímur-chanting society Iðunn (established 1929) was transformed as Steindór's unique command of the genre and his magnetic stage presence inspired nothing short of a revival. His collaboration with the Icelandic group Sigur Rós, resulting in tours in Europe and the United States, has sparked an unprecedented interest in this hitherto neglected musical form. Steindór has of late been part of various projects whose aim has been cross-cultural fertilization with the intent of bringing the rímur to a wider audience, but at the same time he has been instrumental in preserving the "bare bones" of the tradition so that others may draw inspiration from this simple, yet elaborate, form of music and poetry. Steindór has for many years worked as a fisherman and as captain of his own ship called Iðunn.
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson has been a prominent part of the Icelandic music scene since the early eighties, shifting with relative ease between genres. His work has been classified as rock, electronics, avant-garde, jazz and neo-classical. He has written music for over 40 feature films and received nominations and awards for several of them, such as Children of Nature, In the Cut and Beowulf and Grendel.
Hilmar is also the allsherjargoði ("high priest") of the Ásatrúarfélagið ("the Ásatrú Association").
Steindór's and Hilmar's work with the group Sigur Rós has received great acclaim and two Nordic Council Music Prize nominations. April 2002 saw the premiere of the large orchestral and choral piece, Odin’s Raven Magic, which they performed at the Barbican Centre with the London Sinfonietta and The Sixteen. The same piece was performed at the Reykjavík Arts Festival one month later to a standing ovation. Odin’s Raven Magic was also performed at art festivals in Norway and France in 2003 and 2004. In recent years Steindór and Hilmar have travelled widely with an ever changing rímur repertoire, which they usually perform with a local string quartet and sometimes local folk instrumentalists. They have performed in Germany, Italy, Ireland, England, Wales, Serbia, Bosnia and Poland and always to high acclaim.
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