Slowblow

Since working jointly beneath the Slowblow moniker, its individuals have apparently under no circumstances lived in exactly the same nation at exactly the same time. Even so, Orri Jónsson (b. 5 November 1970, Reykjavik, Iceland) and Dagur Kári Pétursson (b. 12 Dec 1973, Aix En Provence, France) develop a music that noises romantic and close plenty of to have already been created by long-term cohabitants instead of long-distance acquaintances. The duo started recording collectively in the first 90s and released two albums, Quicksilver Tuna and Fousque, in the center of the decade around the Smekkleysa label. Tellingly, Jónsson is really a graduate of the institution of Visible Arts in NY and it has evidently spent many years on Forsaken Farms, a pictures task documenting the interiors of forgotten farmhouses in Iceland. Jónsson in addition has organized occasions for the Icelandic Film Museum where music artists such as for example Jóhann Jóhannson and Múm possess composed/performed songs for old movies. The latter music group’s vocalist Kristín Anna Valtysdóttir’s existence was keenly experienced around the duo’s third recording, 2004’s Slowblow : she made an appearance on four from the record’s paths, with her vocal for ‘Cardboard Container’ evidently being documented in Jónsson’s mom’s small Reykjavik bathroom (the record was also partly recorded within the transformed indoor pool that Sigur Rós make use of as their documenting studio). The usage of noises of ‘the solid wood flooring in Orri’s living area’, ‘a handrail single in the staircase’, squeaking body organ pedals, mechanised sewing devices, an upturned cleaning bin (being a drum) and recordings of fireworks (on ‘Cardboard Container’) alongside the greater usual musical noticed, upright bass and glide electric guitar accentuated the feeling of intimacy and overtly Icelandic yearning. Slowblow possess notably caused Emilíana Torrini and got their ‘Is certainly Jesus Your Pal?’ included in esoteric dance task Gus Gus. Jónsson, in the meantime, engineered Múm’s beautiful Summer Make Great record. Pétursson also functions as a film movie director, completing Noi Albinoi in 2003 and Dark Equine a year afterwards.