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The International Organ Summer
in Hallgrímskirkja 2015
13th June – 9th August
Hallgrimskirkja's Friends of the Arts Society 33rd season
18. 6. Lenka Mateova,
Kópavogur Church
Steinunn Skjenstad soprano
25. 6. Kári Þormar, Dómkirkjan
2. 7. Jónas Þórir, Bústaðakirkja,
film music, Star Wars and more
9. 7. Hörður Áskelsson,
Hallgrímskirkja
Fjölnir Ólafsson baritone
16. 7. Guðný Einarsdóttir,
Fella- og Hólakirkja
23. 7. Steingrímur Þórhallsson,
Neskirkja/Pamela Sensi flute
30. 7. Eyþór Wechner Franzson
6. 8. Ágúst Ingi Ágústsson
Lunchtime concerts
on Thursdays at 12 noon
In cooperation with
Icelandic Organist Association
Lunchtime concerts
on Wednesdays at 12 noon
Schola cantorum
Hallgrimskirkja Chamber Choir
13. 6. 12 noon Björn Steinar Sólbergsson,
& 14. 6. 5 pm Hallgrímskirkja
20. 6. 12 noon Iveta Aphalna, world famous concert
& 21. 6. 5 pm organist, Latvia
27. 6. 12 noon James B. Hicks, Norway
& 28. 6. 5 pm / Virginia Hicks USA soprano
4. 7. 12 noon Elżbieta Karolak, Poland
& 5. 7. 5 pm
11. 7. 12 noon Hörður Áskelsson, Music Director of
& 12. 7. 5 pm Hallgrimskirkja
18. 7. 12 noon Dexter Kennedy, USA, Winner of
& 19. 7. 5 pm Chartre Int. Organ Competition 2014
25. 7. 12 noon Janos Kristofi, Hungary
& 26. 7. 5 pm
1. 8. 12 noon Lára Bryndís Eggertsdóttir, Iceland
& 2. 8. 5 pm
8. 8. 12 noon Andreas Liebig, Basel Münster,
& 9. 8. 5 pm Switzerland
Weekend concerts
Saturday at 12 noon and Sunday at 5 pm
with international concert organists
32 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 11 — 2015MUSIC
One of the LungA arts festival’s main
workshops this year focused on the cre-
ation of electronic music. After a week
of intensive music making, the fruits of
the workshoppers’ labours were proudly
premiered at a concert in the beauti-
ful Seyðisfjörður church. The gig show-
cased about fifteen different electro acts,
ranging from synth-poppy meditations
on French kissing under cherry trees
to experimental sound sculptures con-
structed from field recordings that the
crew made around Seyðisfjörður. Very
promising indeed.
As always, LungA closed with a
big concert by the Seyðisfjörður docks,
where the organisers had constructed a
minimal, makeshift stage, decorating the
area with an eccentric mix of a warm co-
lours and cold industrial edges.
At the show, dj. flugvél og geim-
skip got the crowd busy with her hyper-
naive Casio weird-pop. After her satisfy-
ing performance, mystery group Gangly
performed live for the first time ever,
instantly demonstrating that they are
a force to be reckoned with. On stage,
their strangely alien beats and manipu-
lated vocals work together in an exact,
imperfectly harmonious manner that’s
downright infectious. After Gangly’s set,
Keflavík pop-punksters Æla stormed
the concert area to stage an impromptu,
surprise concert, blasting their punk rock
out of a car as singer Halli Valli came run-
ning out of nowhere.
Post-Æla, Reykjavíkurdætur kept
the crowd engaged with their wolfpack
stage performance and choice rhymes.
Grísalappalísa then proceeded to rock
everyone’s world, with vocalist Gunnar
Ragnarsson’s insane on-and-off-stage
performance driving their message
home. Electro pop-group Sykur then
closed off a successful festival, perform-
ing mostly new material that left us ex-
cited for their upcoming album.
The other East Iceland festival that
we attended was Bræðslan, which is
held annually in the tiny village of Bor-
garfjörður Eystri (pop. ca. 100), right on
the north-east edge of Iceland, about
as far away from the capital as you can
get without crossing the North Atlantic.
Bræðslan’s big draw is its ever-intimate
main concert, set in an abandoned fish-
ery. This year’s line-up sported acts like
Prins Póló, Lára Rúnars, Valdimar,
Ensími and Bubbi Morthens (appear-
ing alongside hard rock group Dimma).
The show saw every band performing at
its best, with Prins Póló’s effortless charm
providing a personal highlight.
As for new Icelandic music, we have
been listening non-stop to Japanese
Super Shift’s latest effort, ‘Double Slit
Album’. Released exactly one year after
its predecessor, ‘47’, ‘Double Slit Album’
is Stefnir Gunnarsson’s third album under
the Japanese Super Shift moniker, and
his strongest to date. Album highlights
include playful electro-pop standard
“2AM” and “Dreadful Moments,” with its
steady beat and a catchy as hell chorus,
where Stefnir sings: “What have I done
now, so typically me,” over and over.
What you have done, Stefnir, is this:
you made a great pop record. Go get your
copy of ‘Double Slit Album’ at www.japa-
nesesupershift1.bandcamp.com.
Óli Dóri and Davíð Roach document
the local music scene and help people
discover new music at straum.is. It is
associated with the radio show Straumur
on X977, which airs every Monday
evening at 23:00.
While Straumur of course live in the great city of Reykjavík,
we sometimes make it out into the country. Recently, one
half of Straumur’s editorial board took a trip to the East of
Iceland, where he attended two local music festivals.
Photo
Thomas Humery
Words
Davíð Roach Gunnarsson & Óli Dóri
STRAUMUR
Festival Fun &
Electro Pop
Straumur radio show airs
Mondays on X977 at 23:00
Straumur www.straum.is