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Innovative Film Scores From The 00s

Our editors select several movie soundtracks from the 2000s that are distinctive, innovative and just plain breathtaking. The choices include music from movies as diverse as Joker, Drive, Ad Astra, There Will Be Blood and Birdman, and span jazz percussion, avant-garde electronics, esoteric neoclassical and 80s-inspired pop.

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The Icelandic Auteur - An interview with Gabríel Ólafs, Gen Z’s most important classical composer

At just 25-years-old, Icelandic composer Gabríel Ólafs is already one of classical music’s most exciting composers. He has released several albums, racked up 200 million streams, and has co-founded an orchestra for film and TV music that features on his new recording—an album that reimagines his most popular compositions with additional production and instrumentation. Read our interview here…

Gabríel Ólafs
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Jóhann Jóhannsson: The Early Years

A dive into Jóhann Jóhannsson’s formative early years in the Icelandic capital, where he played guitar and keyboards for rock, indie and electronic bands; collected—and formed a group based on—vintage organs; and blurred the boundaries between music and art with the progressive Kitchen Motors collective.

Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Sonic Pilgrims: Marie Awadis & Snorri Hallgrímsson

As Armenian composer and pianist Marie Awadis and Icelandic composer and producer Snorri Hallgrímsson prepare to release their debut recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon label, we bring them together to contrast and compare their musical journeys so far…

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