Steindor Andersen

Steindor Andersen is among a very couple of remaining experts of rimur (a kind of Icelandic epic tune and chant). Delivered in 1954, he got a comparatively early liking towards the poetry which the chanting is situated, which resulted in a account in IDUNN, a culture specialized in the preservation of rimur, from where he shortly began chanting aswell. His talents shortly became known, resulting in concerts, recordings, and performances generally throughout Iceland, culminating within a collaboration using the Icelandic supergroup Sigur Rós, which gained him a unexpected quantity of notoriety for an in any other case ignored form. Combined with the traditional types of epic tune, Andersen spends a great deal of work in cross-germination with an increase of contemporary forms to permit a greater viewers for rimur. Along with shows and his normal are a fisherman and dispatch captain, Andersen in addition has served as leader of IDUNN since 1997. His largest & most recent solo documenting is certainly 2003’s Rimur on Naxos Globe.