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Ólafur Arnalds: Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts

Ólafur Arnalds

Using an Edison "Fireside" cylinder phonograph and his own Stratus music software, Ólafur Arnalds' Tiny Desk (home) concert brings the past and the future into a heartfelt performance. Filmed in his tree-lined studio in Reykjavík, Iceland (the former studio of Sigur Rós), Ólafur and his string quartet perform three songs from my personal No. 1 album of 2020, some kind of peace. The pensive set opens with an older tune, "Happiness Does Not Wait," with Ólafur Arnalds seated at a short upright piano known as a Danish 'pianette.'

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Ólafur Arnalds

Ólafur Arnalds (1986) is an Icelandic musician, composer and producer. A former hardcore, punk and metal drummer, he is part of the experimental electronic duo Kiasmos (with Janus Rasmussen) and an acclaimed composer of film and television scores. On his solo albums, Arnalds combines classical orchestration with post-rock dynamics and elements of electronic music, ambient, pop and Nordic folk. For his 2020 album “Some Kind of Peace”, he received two Grammy nominations.

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