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In the Air
A SHORT SAMPLE LIFTED FROM ICELANDIC RADIO AND LACED THROUGH THE BEATLES’S ‘YELLOW SUBMARINE’ ONCE
OFFERED REASSURANCE THAT ISOLATION WAS NOT EXCLUDING ICELANDERS FROM ONE OF THE MOST MOMENTOUS
MUSICAL AND CULTURAL MOVEMENTS OF ALL TIME. SINCE THEN, THEIR MUSICAL PRESENCE HAS NOT BEEN DICTATED
BY CHANCE ALONE, AND ALTHOUGH BJÖRK SINGLE-HANDEDLY TRANSFORMED HER NATION’S IMAGE ACROSS THE
GLOBE, THERE ARE OTHER ARTISTS HERE RECEIVING RECOGNITION BEYOND THEIR ISLAND.
Fat Boy Slim
will perform at Iceland Airwaves
MU
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