Hugar - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu
Icelandic band HUGAR present the video for their new single Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu.
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This song by Icelandic band HUGAR is their haunting solo-piano version of an ancient Icelandic folk song – the title meaning ‘Vatnsenda-Rosa’s Verses’ and comes from their new 5-track EP ‘Þjóðlög / Folk Songs’ which will be released on May 28th, 2021.
For this EP, they selected a set of five songs from the canon of Islandic Folk Music as their base material. Hugar says “These are very old Icelandic songs that were part of an oral tradition, luckily saved for the nation by having been written down in the late 19thcentury. We feel that it is very important to keep these songs alive. They reflect our long, dark, raw winters with their themes of loss, grief and darkness. Our aim is to represent this sonically and these are some of our favourites from the collection.”
Hugar is the joint musical project of Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson - the two multi-talented instrumentalists, composers, producers and friends since childhood. Þórisson and Jónsson have forged a musical path all of their own with their genre-defying special Hugar sound. Combining a shared passion for music and an impressive resume, working alongside fellow Icelandic luminaries Björk, Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds and Johann Johannson, the longtime friends first began writing music together in 2013, recording and releasing their independent self-titled debut ‘Hugar’ the following year. Signed exclusively to Sony Music Masterworks they’ve released their second longplayer ‘Varða’ and the soundtrack album ‘The Vasulka Effect-Music for the Motion Picture’, which got them nominations for the Nordic Film Composer Awards 2021 and the Icelandic Music Awards. ‘Þjóðlög/ Folk Songs’ marks their first release on Sony’s new post-genre instrumental label XXIM Records, with their third full album projected for release later this year.
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