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Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason - Cruel Miracles

A teaser for SÓLARIS by Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason featuring the song Cruel Miracles.

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.

Puzzle Muteson - Perspex Disguise (live)

Puzzle Muteson on BalconyTV Dublin

Puzzle Muteson - En Garde

En Garde by Puzzle Muteson, directed by Lauren Edward - www.laurenedward.com

Puzzle Muteson - En Garde (live)

Puzzle Muteson - live from Luka

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.

Nico Muhly - Mothertongue I.

Images for Nico Muhly’s Mothertongue- I. Archive - Abigail Fischer. By Glenn McQuaid

Nico Muhly - Skip Town

Film by Banner Gwin, music by Nico Muhly. The track Skip Town is available as a bonus track when you download Mothertongue from http://nicomuhly.bandcamp.com/album/mothertongue

Sam Amidon - How come that Blood (live)

A live performance of Sam Amidon’s How come that Blood. Footage shot in Brussels on the Bedroom Community’s Whale Watching Tour. Also featured in this piece are Ben Frost, Nico Mulhy, Valgeir Sigurdsson.

Shot and edited by Pierre-Alain Giraud and Stuart Rogers.

I SEE THE SIGN: New album out April 20, 2010.

Whale Watching 2010 Tour Trailer

Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson return with this wondrous concert-series through Europe, starting at Berlins Admiralspalast on the 18th April and ending in The National Theater in Reykjavík on 16th May.

Video by Pierre-Alain GIraud & Stuart Rogers

Sam Amidon - Kedron

Song on the new Sam Amidon’s album “I see the Sign”
Recorded during the Whale Watching Tour 2009 in Eindhoven
Video by Pierre-Alain GIraud & Stuart Rogers

Ben Frost - Híbakúsja

Performed during the Whale Watching Tour 2009, Brussels
With Sam Amidon, Ben Frost , Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurðsson
Video by Pierre-Alain Giraud & Stuart Rogers

Nico Muhly - Skip Town

Filmed at the Union Chapel in London (February 2009)
Video by Pierre-Alain Giraud, music by Nico Muhly

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.

Valgeir Sigurðsson - Past Tundra

Whale Watching Tour 2009 in Leipzig
Valgeir Sigurðsson with Sam Amidon, Ben Frost and Nico Muhly
Vidéo Stuart Rogers and Pierre-Alain Giraud

Whale Watching Tour 2009

Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson
European tour November 2009
Video by Pierre-Alain Giraud and Stuart Rogers