Skúli Sverrisson - Sería

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Skúli Sverrisson is a world renowned bass player. Over here he’s probably best known for his work with the New York group Blonde Redhead. It is mostly an instrumental album, except for 3 tracks where Ólöf Arnalds sings. This is a tough album to describe. It is melancholic, sad and beautiful. It’s not an aggressive album, it is subtle and low-key without fading to the background as sometimes occurs. It is obviously the work of very skilled people – it sounds professional. It has great Quality with a capital Q. The various musicians are all known for excellent work, but it’s Skúli’s bass, guitar and dobro playing that form the backbone of each track. It is a mature piece of music that is very pleasing to the ears.

this is very nice, mellow, yet technically marvellous electronic classical music sort of. brought to my attention because johann johannson is on it (along with laurie anderson and a whole bunch of other people). very mellow, yet interesting - proper ambient; eno would approve. three tracks have very stina nordenstamesque vocals, another (maybe my favourite) has laurie.

contact me for errrr ordering info lol :angry:

where can we order it from?

thnaks

this release got some awards here in iceland (not that it counts for much).

and yes, i like it.

Yeah, I should probably check this one out as I've liked the few things I've heard from him so far.

I think I need to move to Iceland or Norway so that some of the musical awesomeness rubs off on me

where could one sample?

this has some great moments. but some ugly parts too. only heard it once but alot of the guitars and drones sound great.