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News: Hugar announce a new album, ‘Rift’, for January; come explore the delicate, glacial pulsing of ‘volt’
HUGAR, the Icelandic modern compositional duo of childhood friends Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson, who we last examined in these pages in regard to their arthouse film soundtrack The Vasulka Effect (read about that, here), are set to return in the first, budding days of 2022 with an album entitled Rift: an album written with …
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News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’
SONY has decided to get itself a little of the modern compositional pie and to that end, has set up a new progressive instrumental label, XXIM Records; which has opened its catalogue by introducing its first signing, Icelandic pianist and composer Eydís Evensen. To mark the label’s launch, she’s released her debut single, “Brotin”, the …