22 February 2010
The official release of Valgeir Sigurðsson’s Draumalandið is today!
This is an original-soundtrack album from the film Dreamland, with music written for a 20 piece chamber ensemble and electronics. The recording features Nico Muhly (arrangements, piano, celesta, harmonium), Sam Amidon (vocals, banjo, guitar) Ben Frost (electronics), Hildur Guðnadóttir (cello), Borgar Magnason (double bass), Nadia Sirota (viola) and Daníel Bjarnason (piano-preparation).
Get your copy HERE. (also on Amazon, iTunes, etc.)
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18 February 2010
Just a quick note on some exciting awards nominations that have come in for Bedroom Community artists this week:
—Valgeir Sigurðsson is nominated for Best Soundtrack at the Icelandic Film Academy Awards (EDDA) for the music for Dreamland (Draumalandið).
—Ben Frost is nominated for Best Album, (classical / contemporary) at the Icelandic Music Awards for BY THE THROAT.
—Daníel Bjarnason is nominated for the Nordic Music Prize for ‘Bow To String’ from Processions.
Daníel and Processions got these nominations for the Icelandic Music Awards:
- Best Composer: Daníel Bjarnason
- Best Album (classical / contemporary): Daníel Bjarnason
Furthermore, the performers on Processions Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir, Víkingur Ólafsson and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra all got nominated at the Icelandic Music Awards.
Congratulations everyone!
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12 February 2010
Read Nico Muhly’s own words on the opera he is creating for The Metropolitan Opera / English National Opera (ENO) with libretto by Craig Lucas:
The chatroom is the masked ball of the 21st century. There, the princess can be the peasant bar-wench, and the 60-year old man can be the 15 year-old girl he should have been 45 years ago.
The opera I've written with Craig is a love story, a murder ballad, and a proper mystery.
Invisible crimes (Internet crimes, White-collar crime) are the new murders. Even though Bernie Madoff's crimes were digitally manipulated, he still had to wear a bulletproof vest to court: the intersection between the virtual and the real is always ecstatic or violent.
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8 February 2010
The Whale Watching Tour, a Bedroom Community collective concert series featuring Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly, Ben Frost & Sam Amidon, + ensemble, will return in the spring. Here are the first confirmed dates, and more to come soon:
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30 January 2010
We are now shipping Daníel Bjarnason’s debut album Processions. You can order a CD digipak or buy the record digitally.. An instantly downloadable code comes bundled with every CD purchase and the download includes Bonus Materials Extravaganza*
“Bedroom Community (whose last release was Ben Frost’s By the Throat), has shown remarkable prescience in choosing this album as its first release of 2010. The year may be in its infancy, but to this reviewer, Processions is already the one to beat.”
—The Silent Ballet
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Bill Frisell and Sam Amidon Duo