Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Hear clips of new Ólafur Arnalds tracks..

A visit to Ólafur in the Schimmel Piano factory in Braunschweig, Germany where he was recording the piano tracks for his upcoming album. Features a little interview and some short soundclips from the album.

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From Ólafur Arnalds:

Hey! it's been a while.. i'm really bad with these actually.. but i wanted to thank everybody for amazing reactions to my Found Songs project! The songs were downloaded over 40.000 times in the first week alone and last i heard (a few weeks ago) it was at 70.000 individual downloads! We also got around 400 submissions to the Found Songs Flickr Group ! All this is way more than i expected... so thank you!To celebrate this, I have decided to release the songs on a Limited Edition Vinyl ! Release date is set for August (will give you a more accurate release date when we've finalized the contract for this). The exciting news here for you arty people is that this week I will take a look over all the Flickr submissions one more time and choose one piece of artwork for each song for the booklet artwork! So if you still have some art you want to submit, please do it soon ! I will of course contact the authors i pick for the necessary permissions, etc.

Last month i did a bit of traveling.. I went to London for some meetings and then to Germany to record the piano tracks for my upcoming 2nd full length album! ...now i know you all have been asking for release dates, but i still can't tell anything.. All i can say is that it will most likely be released sometime between October 2009 and February 2010.

Schimmel Pianos were so nice to lend me a piano for the recordings, and instead of having them send it somewhere far i decided to just go to their factory in Braunschweig and record it in their showroom with my live-sound technician, Terry. It sounds great!

I have uploaded a little VideoBlog from the recordings to Youtube if you like to see. It features a really awkward interview with me and some sound samples from the album. Click here to watch - and don't forget to subscribe to my channel :)

After the recordings i went to Denmark for a few shows with my friends in For a Minor Reflection including SPOT festival. We had a really great time together, getting lost in a crop field somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with only our red wine bottles to keep us safe.. ahhhhh...Please check FaMR out, i'm planning an Iceland tour with them this fall, but more news on that later!

until next time..love, Óli

Is it next time yet?

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