Icelandic composer Gabríel Ólafs’ new album Polar is a work of speculative fiction in musical form. Polar provides the soundtrack to a frozen world. A world of towering mountain ranges, desolate tundra, forbidding oceans, and the monolithic remnants of a lost civilization.

 

1. Entrance
2. Whale Overture
3. The Waves
4. Túndra
5. The Winds
6. The Monolith
7. Whale Variation
8. Vortex
9. Ocean Sonata For Harp
10. Elegy
11. The True Meaning of Forever
12. Coda