Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Cruel Miracles
A teaser for SÓLARIS by Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason featuring the song Cruel Miracles.
Daníel Bjarnason
Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason has garnered widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions (2010), with Time Out NY declaring that Bjarnason 'create(s) a sound that comes eerily close to defining classical music's undefinable brave new world'.
Daníel works equally as conductor and composer and has worked with many different ensembles including the London Sinfonietta, Ulster Orchestra and Sinfonietta Cracovia. He also regularly conducts at both the Icelandic Opera and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Daníel has won numerous awards and grants and in 2008 and 2011 he was awarded a special recommendation for his work at the International Rostrum for Composers. In 2010 he was nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council's Music Prize, and won the Kraumur Music Award. Later that year Processions won the Best Composer/Best Composition category at the Icelandic Music Awards.
Daníel’s versatility as an arranger and conductor has led to collaborations with with a broad array of musicians outside the classical field, including Sigur Rós, Efterklang, múm and Ólöf Arnalds amongst others.
Daníel recently collaborated with labelmate Ben Frost, resulting in the album SÓLARIS, released on Bedroom Community in 2011. See more here.
What the press says
Processions deserves to be [Bjarnason's] global breakthrough. It’s the sound of fire and instinct, the musical equivalent of a controlled burn. Perhaps all sounds to silence come, but thanks to Bjarnason, that sonic Armageddon seems a long distance away.
Richard Allen — The Silent Ballet
(January 27th 2010)
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“Surely one of the most bombastic modern classical albums you’re likely to hear all year”.
Boomkat (February 1st 2010) Read all reviews
“Daniel Bjarnason brings the magic of Icelandic music to the classical world. A musical statement not to be missed.”
Tyler Fisher — SputnikMusic
(April 28th 2010)
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Media
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Saccades
A teaser for SÓLARIS by Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason featuring the song Saccades.
Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Reyja
A teaser for SÓLARIS by Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason featuring the song Reyja.
Daníel Bjarnason - Air to Breath
Video by Una Lorenzen, music by Daníel Bjarnason. The visuals are made from photographs and 16mm shots from Iceland, by Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir.
Daníel Bjarnason - Blood to Bones
Video by Una Lorenzen, music by Daníel Bjarnason. The visuals are made from photographs and 16mm shots from Iceland, by Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir.
Daníel Bjarnason - Sorrow Conquers Happiness
Video by Una Lorenzen, music by Daníel Bjarnason. The visuals are made from photographs and 16mm shots from Iceland, by Þorbjörg Jónsdóttir.
Daníel Bjarnason - Processions (live at the Icelandic Music Awards 2010)
Composer of the Year, Daniel Bjarnason presents a special excerpt from his Piano Concerto - Processions. With soloist Vikingur Heidar Olafsson, strings and percussion.
Draumalandið (Dreamland) Music Examples
Here are a few music examples from Draumalandið (Dreamland), a documentary about the exploitation of Iceland’s natural resources, tells a story about huge things—the fortunes of a whole nation; the destruction of vast landscapes; and the global economic forces, greater still than any nation, that fuel it all—and for his soundtrack to the film, Valgeir has brought out a heavier set of tools. His entire roster of Bedroom Community labelmates contributes in some way to the creation of the score: classical composers Nico Muhly and Daníel Bjarnason, industrial wizard Ben Frost, and American folksinger Sam Amidon, along with a host of others, and the small orchestra assembled for the record swells from moments of expansive beauty into massive, surging symphonic force. Its harmonies are anxious, pulsing, driven.
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Processions
Released on 1 February 2010
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