Eivør Pálsdóttir - Eg veit: live on U2-360° og íslenskt tónlistarsumar

On June 27th, an Icelandic Radio Program brodcasted the studio version of Eivør's Eg vet which will be featured in her forthcoming studio album. You can listen to this song as well as the entire program HERE


Lagalistinn:


Bubbi - Óskin

Eivör Pálsdóttir - Ég veit

Biggi Hilmars - Now Is The Time

Elíza Newman – Stjörnuryk

Júpíters & Jensen - Þokkagyðja

200.000 naglbítar - Í mararskauti mjúku

Múgsefjun - Fékkst ekki nóg

SSSól og John Grant - Finish On Top

Kiriyama Family - Weekends

Tilbury - Tenderloin

Shiny Darkly - He's Suicidal (Danska lagið

Magnús og Jóhann - Sumir dagar

Magnús Þór og Jónas Sigurðsson - Ef ég gæti hugsana minna

Geoffrey Oryama - Makambo (Tónlist frá fjarlægum heimshluta


Áratugafimman:

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues

The Byrds - Feel A Whole Lot Better

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight


Moses Hightower - Stutt skref

Eberg - Long since i have felt this good

Myrra Rós - Kveldúlfur


Tónleikar kvöldsins - U2 í 360 gráður:

U2 - EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

U2 - THE FLY*

U2 - MYSTERIOUS WAYS

U2 - MAGNIFICENT

U2 - UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD

U2 - I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

U2 - STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)

U2 - ONE TREE HILL

U2 - BEAUTIFUL DAY

U2 - ELEVATION

U2 - BAD


Sin Fang - Only Eyes

Lay Low - The Backbone


Þrennan:

Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson - Sumargestur

The Lovely Lion - Into The Forest

Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson - Leyndarmál


Monterey - Don't Shoot

Eclectic Eivør brings Faroe Islands culture to everything she does

By Alexander Varty, June 21, 2012

She’s unconstrained by stylistic boundaries, sings with crystalline purity, enjoys creative collaborations with performers from around the globe, and hails from a windswept island in the middle of the icy North Atlantic—but her name is not Björk.


Instead, we’re talking about Eivør Pálsdóttir, a musician who’s just on the cusp of being discovered in North America.

As with her Icelandic counterpart, it’s difficult and probably pointless to put a single label on what it is that she does. She’s a country-and-western troubadour who beats a shamanic drum. She’s an operatic soprano who has her own rock band, Clickhaze. She’s worked with beat-driven electronic musicians, and at her TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival appearance she’ll guest with the folk-jazz quintet Yggdrasil before performing a set of her own tunes. No matter what the context, though, she’s always strongly grounded in the music and the landscape of her homeland, the Faroe Islands.

“In the Faroes, the culture of singing is very strong, and people sing a lot,” she explains from Copenhagen. “When the fishermen go out to catch the fish, for instance, they have a song they sing on the way out. There are many songs for different occasions, and I think just automatically nature weaves into the sound of the music.”

Unsurprisingly, the artist known simply as Eivør feels a great affinity for the fiords and islands of Canada’s West Coast, and we’re probably going to be seeing more of her in future. Upcoming in 2013 is her starring role in part-time Victoria resident Gavin Bryars’s chamber opera Anyone can see I love you, based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. And this fall will see the release of her eighth solo effort, Room, which includes four songs cowritten with Bryars’s librettist, Vancouver Island poet Marilyn Bowering.

“I started writing the music when I was so unfortunate to lose my dear father, two years ago now,” the 28-year-old singer explains. “Most of the songs are about this empty room that you feel inside when something precious disappears from your life.

“I feel like I’ve found something very special, but I guess everybody says that,” she adds more cheerfully. “But in this record I really feel that I connected with something. My last record was more of a rock record, while my previous records have been closer to folk music. But this record is a link between my traditional folk stuff and my last album, and I think it’s a very important record to me.”


Via: STRAIGHT.COM

Video: Eivør Interview (with English subtitles)

Thanks to Niagarko for sharing!

Video: Far Away & Eg Veit live on Faroese TV, 16th of March

Thanks to Sem Johnsson for letting us know!

Videos: Rura barnið, Trøllabundin and Elisabet & Elinborg live @ Halkær kro on October 14th

Rura barnið:



Trøllabundin:


Elisabet & Elinborg:



Thanks to AlruneRod2811 for sharing!