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Iceland

Label: Tutl Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Miles Beyond; Desire; Pacifizism; Gróthúsvatn; Iceland; Gamlarætt; Corazon de Cuba; Tough Goin'; Port of Thor; The Wren and the Raven.

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Article: Album Review

Arnold Ludvig Sextet: Iceland

Read "Iceland" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Situated in the North Atlantic, roughly equidistant from Scotland, Norway, and Iceland, the Faeroe Islands are one of the last places one would expect to find a thriving international jazz scene populated with world-class improvisers and a record label dedicated to documenting all of the action. Tutl Records, founded in 1977 by the Danish jazz musician ...

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Article: Live Review

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Mengi

Read "Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Mengi" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan Mengi Reykjavík, Iceland May 8, 2015 (2nd show) “I've been waiting for this moment for a long time," said guitarist Jakob Bro to the small, tightly packed audience at Mengi, a vibrant new arts space in downtown Reykjavik. This tour--which besides ...

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Article: Album Review

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Distilled

Read "Distilled" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


La scena musicale islandese non ha prodotto solo Björk, Sigur Rós e, per quanto riguarda il jazz, Mezzoforte e Skúli Sverrisson. La pianista di questo trio, Sunna Gunnlaugs (il cognome per esteso è Gunnlaugsdóttir) è un'artista pregevole che ha vissuto negli anni Novanta a New York suonando con Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Loren Stillman ...

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Article: Album Review

Andres Thor: Nordic Quartet

Read "Nordic Quartet" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


Even though it is a small country, Iceland has produced many interesting jazz musicians. Among them, pianists Sunna Gunnlaugs and Eythor Gunnarsson, saxophonist Óscar Gudjónsson and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Add to this list guitarist Andrés Thor. As a musician, Thor has the distinctive lyrical beauty of many of his countrymen, but he is ...

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Article: Album Review

Skúli Sverrisson, Óskar Guðjónsson: The Box Tree

Read "The Box Tree" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Un album originale fin dal packaging questo The Box Tree, opera dei due musicisti islandesi Skúli Sverrisson e Óskar Guðjónsson: la copertina è sostituita da una bustina di plastica da cartine geografiche, al cui interno c'è appunto una mappa di un territorio non identificabile, la cui legenda indica i brani, gli autori e i vari dati ...

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Article: Album Review

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Distilled

Read "Distilled" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


It is tempting to connect a musical aesthetic with a particular place. In fact, the whole idea of national music relies on the concept of an intrinsic national spirit, which creates an original musical expression. The only problem with a concept like national music is that it tends to pigeonhole musicians and create prejudice rather than ...

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News: Recording

Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio Releases "Distilled" on Sunny Sky Records

Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio Releases "Distilled" on Sunny Sky Records

Her last album Long Pair Bond received 5 stars from the Austrian jazz magazine Concerto, among other stellar reviews from around the world. Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs set high expectations for the follow-up trio recording, Distilled, which was just released on Sunny Sky Records. There have already been some initial reviews. Blogger Stephan Moore from Jazz ...

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Article: Album Review

Scott McLemore: Remote Location

Read "Remote Location" reviewed by John Kelman


While musicians relocate all the time, moving from the vibrant New York scene to more remote environs might seem an odd choice. After eight years in NYC playing with artists including guitarist Ben Monder and saxophonist Tim Berne, drummer Scott McLemore relocated with wife Sunna Gunnlaugs to her native Iceland following the pianist's decade-plus American stay. ...

News: Recording

New Album From Iceland; Latin Faculty – Latínudeildin

LATIN FACULTY – LATÍNUDEILDIN (2012): CD-1: English lyrics by JJ Soul, Portuguese lyrics by Jussanam da Silva and two instrumental songs. CD-2 includes the same songs with Icelandic lyrics written by various authors. Nine vocalists perform on the album, veterans like Gudrún Gunnars, Eivor Pálsdóttir and Thor Breidfjörd and younger generation jazz-singers like Marína Ósk and ...


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