Results for "Ingi Bjarni Skúlason"

Tenging

By Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Label: Losen Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Já í dag; Kannski blús; Ballad for My Fearless Friend; Á sunnudegi; Tenging; Angurvært; Falin laglína; Ekki þjóðlag, ekki jazz.

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason: Tenging

by Friedrich Kunzmann
September 21, 2019

Icelandic composer and pianist Ingi Bjarni Skúlason lived in Gotheburg, Copenhagen and Oslo while studying his Masters degree in composition. It is in these European cities where he met and performed with the musicians heard on this record. Jakob Eri Myhre and Merje Kägu join on trumpet and guitar with Daniel Andersson and Tore Ljøkelsøy forming ...

Fundur

By Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Fundur; Hlaupa burtu; Þóf; Snúður; S306; Trump Waltz; Sakna norðurljósa; Mars.

Ingi Bjarni Trio: Fundur

by Mike Jurkovic
November 23, 2018

Hailing from Reykjavik, pianist and composer Ingi Bjarni fluidly melds the extreme landscapes of his native Iceland with an innate, resilient melodicism that shifts willfully within the body of his music like a slideshow of the wild Icelandic terrain. Translated roughly as 'finding/discovery' or 'to have found something' Fundur immediately captures the ear with ...

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Born: September 9, 1987

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason is an Icelandic pianist and composer who shapes his own poetics. He has released 7 albums with his music and toured both in Europe and Japan. He makes his own kind of folk music with the freedom of expressiveness, and space for both lyrical and free improvisation.

Over the years, Ingi Bjarni has performed his original music with a wide range of musicians across Iceland and Europe. He has appeared at numerous international jazz festivals, including Jazzahead (Bremen), Elbjazz (Hamburg), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Vilnius Jazz Festival, Lillehammer Jazz Festival, Nordic Jazz Comets, and Reykjavík Jazz Festival. In addition to these, he has given concerts in Iceland, Japan, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Estonia, Latvia, the Faroe Islands, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016

by Budd Kopman
December 18, 2016

Of the seventy or so albums I was fortunate to review this year (with many still waiting in the wings), the releases below (in chronological order) are those that moved me the most and hence that I remember the clearest, even after a year. The quality of the music is uniformly high, and leaving something off ...

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason: Skarkali

by Budd Kopman
October 26, 2016

Prediction: pianist/composer Ingi Bjarni Skúlason and his music will eventually end up on ECM. This is not because he is from Iceland, but rather that he, even at his young age, has a fully developed, recognizable style. Skarkali, which literally means “loud noises," is a piano trio recording that is anything but noise, and ...

Skarkali

By Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Virkar ("It works"); Fals ekki vals ("False not waltz" - dedicated to people who don't dance waltz); Á hálum ís ("On slippery ice"); Erfiðleikum gæddur ("To have troubles"); Hollands Spoor (a train station in the Netherlands); Hug minn allan ("With all my mind"); Í innsta hring ("In the innest circle"); Smásagnasafn á repeat ("Short story collection on repeat"); Heyra meira ("Hear more").

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