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With Love, Despite the pain

Snorri Hallgrimsson

In “With Love, Despite the Pain” Hallgrímsson addresses the sense of isolation that can overwhelm us when we watch the news. “I’m hopeful, despite the horror,” he says. Continuing a theme from I Am Weary, Don’t Let Me Rest, he references Dante’s Inferno, reminding us that as the writer took courage from having Virgil as his guide, “we can take courage and follow each other”. 

Meet the artist

Snorri Hallgrimsson

Snorri Hallgrímsson is an Icelandic composer and producer. A choral singer and classically trained guitar player, he studied composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and at Berklee College of Music. Since his debut album “Orbit” in 2018, Hallgrimsson has been combining cinematic post-classical sounds with electronic elements, creating atmospheric film soundtracks and collaborating with Vikingur Ólafsson and Ólafur Arnalds. For Deutsche Grammophon, he reworked an Erik Satie piece.

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