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Fólk fær andlit

Hildur Guðnadóttir

Fólk fær andlit was written as a response to the mistreatment and deportations of refugees in Iceland in 2015. In the words of Hildur Guðnadóttir: “In December 2015 we followed a series of events that touched most of us there. Albanian children with terminal illnesses were deported from Iceland along with their families who had been denied residence permits. It was deeply distressing to watch the series of events unfold; how people divided into two separate oppositions, for or against - people.”

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Hildur Guðnadóttir

Hildur Guðnadóttir (1982) is an Icelandic cellist and composer. A two-time Grammy winner, she is mainly known for her film and TV work, among them soundtracks for the movies “Joker” and “Tár”, and the TV miniseries “Chernobyl”. Having studied composition in Reykjavik and Berlin, she released four solo albums between 2006 and 2014 and played on recordings by Ben Frost, Múm, The Knife, and Sunn O))). Since the release of her last album “Sama”, she’s successfully focused on scoring movies.

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