This Week's Playlist #97 - The Iceland edition
5 songs of the last 7 years, straight from the strange basements of Icelandic punk/rock/pop (and 5 more songs)
Hello everyone!
This Week's Playlist - Season 2, Episode 45.
An old friend from Iceland today. We met during my previous life working for non profits between Europe and America. So I ask for a selection of music from their home country.
I hope you will enjoy it, and thank you for the playlist. Come back whenever you want :-)
TL;DR: I'm running a musical newsletter with a new guest sharing 5 songs each week.
There is a YouTube link for each of the songs on the cover, and here are the playlists for each streaming platform:
The Iceland edition with O.
Já Halló og góðan og blessaðan daginn everyone!
Reykjavík calling with something completely different that the results fo the Icelandic Eurovision Jury results!
I’m not even sure of when I met Thomas - but at least a decade ago - the how is through open-source and available technology for all and of course and an undying appreciation of culture as the only true driving force of life - specifically music.I grew up with rock; punk was my first love. I am, and have become with age, an omnivore that is looking for the next exhilarating chance of discovery. I moved back to my place of birth 7 years ago after 30 years abroad and the music scene in Reykjavík is open, experimental, playful and existent in way that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Except when it does.
I believe in people, spaces and environments that transform. I am humbled by the ask of sharing a time and space with you all music-wise. An attempt at throwing something extremely personal into the ether for a glimpse at a stranger’s inner-most architecture. I initially was a bit paralysed by curation, of choice, and decided that the theme of my list would be songs that transformed me. They come in no particular order of appearance. They however bring with them a personal sense of knowing that, after their first appearance in my ears, in my brain, nothing would be the same.
I choose 5 songs of the last 7 years, straight from the strange basements of Icelandic punk/rock/pop…
Spacestation - hvítt vín (white - wine)
2. Gaddavír - Kýldur (punched)
3. Póstdreifing - Það er maður inní herberginu mínu (there is a man in my room)
4. Bucking Fastards - Manager Hell
5. Between Mountains - Into the Dark
Another list!
I chose specific renditions of these songs; the ones that really hit it home.
6. Bad Religion: Generator.
This was a true homecoming. The entire album was just shy of 30 minutes I think, and it felt like a huge info dump into my brain that took years to unpack. Glorious!
7. LaRoux - In it for the kill - SKREAM remix
Really shows why music and drugs are same <3
8. The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt
]This song demands a visualisation that commands silence, and a complete let go and immersion. The PAG - THE LADY IS DEAD video changed how I even began to visualise.
9. Low Roar - I keep coming.
The repetative element still sits deep inside of my brain.
10. Björk - hyper ballad.
I think this rendition explains northern depression better than naything else I have seen, heard or smelled.
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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