From the First Record to the Next Unknown
Twenty years ago today, Bedroom Community released its first record, Speaks Volumes.
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News and recording notes from Bedroom Community and Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík.
Announcing Council: Gabriel Kahane & Pekka Kuusisto Join Bedroom Community
Bedroom Community is delighted to welcome Council, the collaborative duo of Gabriel Kahane and Pekka Kuusisto. Their debut single 'Panic (feat. Elizabeth Ziman)' is streaming worldwide now.
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Isabelle Lewis - Greetings
What kind of music does she make? Is she an opera singer? Does she write pop songs? Does she compose ethereal ambient soundscapes? Does she play chamber music on the violin? Is she producing dark, electronic beats?
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Daniel Elms - Collected Works 2018-22
Collected Works 2018-22 coalesces three deeply personal works that were created by Daniel Elms for three of the UK's most innovative ensembles and supporters of contemporary music. The three works explore misremembrance and the…
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Francesco Fabris Releases DISPLACES on LP, CD & Digital
Sound artist and producer Francesco Fabris presents DISPLACES, an immersive exploration of volcanic and tectonic resonance recorded in Iceland.
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Helgi Jonsson & Valgeir Sigurðsson - Mutter Courage
Helgi Jonsson & Valgeir Sigurðsson present music for MUTTER COURAGE. A collection of songs and score for Berthold Brecht's classic play "Mother Courage And Her Children" in a new production at the National Theatre of Iceland, with…
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Nico Muhly - David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)
Bedroom Community Unveils Nico Muhly's Mesmerizing Music Score for David Hockney's Light Room Exhibition. This extraordinary collaboration between two artistic giants promises to transport audiences on an unparalleled sensory journey of…
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Manchester Collective - NEON
Manchester Collective’s fourth studio album NEON, is released on the Bedroom Community label. Journeying into the darker side of our urban dreams, the album takes audiences on a sonic adventure of discovery through sleepless nights and…
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Valgeir Sigurðsson & Sigurður Guðjónsson - Perpetual Motion
A collaborative work by label founder Valgeir Sigurðsson and Reykjavík based contemporary artist Sigurður Guðjónsson: PERPETUAL MOTION is available on Audio Cassette and Digital Download. Upcoming Vinyl release!
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Manchester Collective - Shades
In ‘Shades’, we explore the next chapter of our ongoing collaboration with the British composer Edmund Finnis. The two string quartets presented here are focused and fragile investigations of sound. Ed’s writing frequently pushes our…
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Daniel Pioro - Diane
I originally wrote this piece of music as the credits sequence for a very special short film by Lindsay Zibach called Seeing Diane Arbus.
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James McVinnie - Counterpoint
Acclaimed UK organist James McVinnie returns to Bedroom Community to release Counterpoint, a double portrait album of music by Philip Glass and J S Bach recorded at the organ of Trinity College, Cambridge. The James McVinnie Ensemble…
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Nico Muhly - Gift Of Fire
Bedroom Community is excited to announce a new release from one of the label’s founding members, Nico Muhly, with the stunning new score for Japanese film Gift Of Fire. The release sees Nico team up with esteemed Bedcom alumni Nadia…
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Alif Hilal - Delta
Life and society emerge where water tessellates over land and provides fertile soil. The chances of evolution that made them interact as they did could have had meaningful environmental consequences had things developed differently. For…
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Heliochrysum - We Become Mist
LA based composer/sound designer duo Heliochrysum announce the release of their visceral, deep and exploratory debut album We Become Mist. The album has been mixed by Ben Frost and mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson.
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Rakhi Singh - Quarry
Quarry is the debut EP of violinist Rakhi Singh, developed and recorded between her home and Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavik across the latter half of ‘20 and the start of ‘21. Spurred on by recent collaborations with the likes of Vessel,…
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Gabriella Smith & Gabriel Cabezas - Lost Coast
On June 25th, Gabriella Smith and Gabriel Cabezas release Lost Coast, seven tracks of original music composed by Smith for intricate layers of cello and voice, inspired by her reflections on climate change, which she has seen devastate…
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Manchester Collective - The Centre is Everywhere
Manchester Collective writes: The Centre is Everywhere is our first album. We created it in rather extraordinary circumstances, at a time when we were all slowly sinking into the banal dystopia of a pandemic-stricken world. Our lives,…
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Valgeir Sigurðsson - KVIKA
KVIKA is the brand new album by Valgeir Sigurðsson. The music was used as the score for the wartime film Malá Ríša (Little Kingdom) by Slovakian director Peter Magát, and is now released as written on the composer’s own Bedroom…
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HELIOCHRYSUM - Forbidden Structures
Heliochrysum is a brand new project based in LA, California consisting of esteemed film composer Michael Deragon, and Sound Design/Composer Daniel Lea ( L A N D, Important Records). This debut EP is a visceral introduction to the duo's…
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Mandel - Nha Trang, Mini Suite
Mandel is a creative partnership between longstanding BedCom collaborator Emily Hall and Misha Law. Drawn together by a common aesthetic, they meet every week to practice mindful free improvisation mostly on violin and viola then work…
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Gabriel Cabezas - Live in Isolation
When cellist Gabriel Cabezas heard that his Kaufman Music Center, Tuesday Matinee recital at Merkin Hall was cancelled due to COVID-19, he started thinking of ways to rescue the opportunity. “I was really proud of the program I put…
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404.zero - 404.0
On June 5, stars of digital art the 404.zero released their first full-length album “404.0” with Icelandic label, Bedroom Community. They are the first Russian musicians selected by this world-famous label. The 404.zero, a duet of…
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Valgeir Sigurðsson - The County // Reworks
After releasing his soundtrack for The County, Grímur Hákonarson’s most recent film, Valgeir Sigurðsson revisited the material sourced for the score which was then reinterpreted by Paul Corley, Francesco Fabris and Dylan Henner.
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Tilman Robinson - CULTURECIDE
CULTURECIDE: “…processes that have usually been purposely introduced that result in the decline or demise of a culture, without necessarily resulting in the physical destruction of its bearers.” (D. Stein, Routledge 2003)
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Valgeir Sigurðsson - An Acceptable Loss
To coincide with the Showtime release of The Wire and CSI director Joe Chappelle's An Acceptable Loss Bedroom Community proudly presents Valgeir Sigurðsson’s original score, released on December 20th as part of our HVALREKI…
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Alif Hilal - FOUNTAIN
Alif Hilal’s debut Fountain explores a post-human, non-binary understanding of life
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Valgeir Sigurðsson - The County
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to The County, with music by Valgeir Sigurðsson, will be released on January 10th 2020. exclusively from Bedroom Community. The 15-track album features eerily beautiful and scene-setting melodies…
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Longitude - Davíð Brynjar Franzson
During the height of the Napoleonic wars, the Royal Danish watchmaker gave his son - Jorgen Jorgensen - a ship to fight the English. At first opportunity, the son - a devoted Anglophile - surrendered to the English under house arrest in…
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Viktor Orri Árnason and Yair Elazar Glotman - VAST
The pair’s first collaboration captures one evening of unconventional violin, viola, and double bass improvisations Icelandic composer and conductor Viktor Orri Árnason and Berlin-based composer, musician, and sound artist Yair Elazar…
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Liam Byrne - CONCRETE
Concrete is the debut solo release from Liam Byrne, a virtuoso performer on the viola da gamba who combines a fluency in historical styles with a thirst for the new. Having spent years performing with some of the world’s leading early…
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Daniel Pioro - Dust pt.I (Valgeir Sigurðsson)
Performed by Daniel Pioro & Valgeir Sigurðsson. Taken from Daniel's forthcoming album 'Dust' — out on February 8th 2019.
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aYia - aYia
Enigmatic Icelandic trio aYia have announced their self-titled debut album on Bedroom Community out on November 16th 2018.
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Valgeir Sigurðsson - Little Moscow
Little Moscow is the new EP from Valgeir Sigurðsson, out on November 15 on Bedroom Community. The EP is the soundtrack of the namesake movie by Grímur Hákonarson."I wanted to create a score that resonates with the isolation, suggests…
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Sam Slater - Wrong Airport Ghost
Wrong Airport Ghost explores the concept of sonic metamorphosis; it is a collaboration directly with, and only with one instrument, and its single string. In the summer of 2016, Slater found himself in Rajastahn where he worked closely…
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Daníel Bjarnason - Collider
Daníel Bjarnason: Collider (2015). From a concert in Harpa, Reykjavík, November 26th 2015.
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