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The Mess is Over!
The Mess is over for this year. We experienced three days full of memorable moments and I intend on sharing a few with you. But… Writing music reviews isn’t really my thing. Also, music is more subjective than any other form of expression. This is why I’ve always thought writing bad reviews when music is … Read the full article →
A Music Night With Amiina – Faktorý Bar, April 2011
It’s hard to explain to outsiders what a band like Amiina stands for, what their music suggests and how it affects the listener. For the easily distracted, they’re just a bunch of girls — wrong, there are also two guys as stable contributors to the band now — making cutely bizarre noises with their instruments. … Read the full article →
The Last Days of Noise pt. 2
We already had occasion to express our concern and sadness for the events that led to HAVARÍ’s — temporary! — closing. It perhaps wouldn’t be appropriate to express contempt towards the people responsible of this situation and I’m not as informed about the whole matter as I should be to talk about it more extensively. … Read the full article →
The Day Jónsi Wrecked the Juvenile Owl
I could find many excuses not to write an entry about Jónsi’s concert at Laugardalshöll. Excuses like I didn’t really go because: it was too mainstream after all, I had a bellyache — which is the case today but it wasn’t yesterday –, I was kidnapped by a squad of enraged puffins. But I did … Read the full article →
Apparat Organ Quartet Back After Eight Years
To understand the extent of the Apparat Organ Quartet phenomenon, you should have been present at NASA yesterday night, in the occasion of the release concert for Pólýfónía, their second album. Pólýfónía, containing material that was composed and recorded over a period of three years, emerges after an eight-year-long wait: quite a long time according … Read the full article →
Amiina at Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn
Last Friday, with a couple of friends, we attended Amiina’s concert at the Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn, located in the complex of the National Theatre in downtown Reykjavík. As I didn’t enjoy much the previous big event in occasion of Puzzle‘s release, I was somehow concerned. However, the Þjóðleikhúskjallarinn is not the NASA with its impersonal dispersiveness; among … Read the full article →