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Track: Gabríel Ólafs – Bambaló
24-year-old Icelandic composer Gabríel Ólafs who’s gearing up to release his new album ‘Lullabies for Piano and Cello’ on the 9th of June via Decca Records US. The album is inspired by a famous collection of rare Icelandic folk songs Gabriel found at a local bookshop in Reykjavik. He was accompanied by cellist Steiney Sigurðardóttir, and the duo …
ALBUM REVIEW: Gabriel Ólafs – ‘Absent Minded Reworks’: Icelandic piano prodigy receives very fine electronica rerubs
ICELANDIC composer and pianist Gabríel Ólafs – who wrote his debut LP, Absent Minded, aged just 14 – is always happy to offer his beautiful music for reinterpretation – by himself and others. After Absent Minded was released to widespread critical adoration on One Little Independent in 2019, he refashioned much of the work therein …