Similar to falling rain, twinkling and pitter-pattering with otherworldly synthesizers and classical elements mingling throughout, Amiina, brings a gentle simplicity to their music.
The four Icelandic women that make up Amiina, packed a tiny car with every instrument they could find, and then filled spaces with food. Hildur Ársælsdóttir, Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, and Sólrún Sumarliadóttir, consider this vital to their formation as a group. The car was too heavy to make it up a hill to the recording studio, and so an obliging farmer towed their car, teeming with food and musical-instruments, to the top.
The lesson of using what was available stuck with the group, and they will use virtually anything that makes sound to enhance their music. Originally, a string quartet of 3 violinists and a cellist, they are not bound by a specific instrument; each playing whatever strikes their fancy. Using, though not limited to, harps, violins, cellos, synthesizers, the glockenspiel, baroque guitars, harmonium, and mandolin they finished Kurr, their first full-length album in 2007.
Another project was a song for Nightmare Revisited, a compilation of covers from The Nightmare Before Christmas in September 2008. Their cover of “Dr. Finkelstein/In the Forest” convinced me that if I ever write a movie, these are the girls I will ask to write the soundtrack.
2 comments:
Is this the string quartet that backs up Sigur Ros?
sometimes, yea.
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