Olafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs

Tracks

01. Fyrsta
02. Near Light
03. Film Credits
04. Tomorrow's Song
05. ?g?st
06. Lag Fyrir ?mmu
07. This Place Is A Shelter

Press

'The indie kid who knows the score? ? Guardian?s Observer
'Timeless and sublime? **** ? Uncut
'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) ? Drowned In Sound
'Hotwired to the soul. ...will reduce you to wordless tears' ? The Quietus
'A success for the composer? ? Pitchfork

REPRESSED!!  Icelandic contemporary composer Olafur Arnalds created and released a new song, one per day for one for one whole week during the month of October 2011. The songs were recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavik apartment and released instantly for free as streamed videos and mp3 downloads. Thousands of fans followed this exciting project online at: livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com Living Room Songs will now also be released on CD, Vinyl and as High Quality Downloads via Erased Tapes on December 5th, 2011. Following in the spirit of ?lafur Arnalds' critically acclaimed Found Songs (2009) where he wrote, recorded and released a free song every day for a week - now comes Living Room Songs. This time ?lafur takes the idea further and invites the audience into the comfort of his living room, where the songs were recorded live and the whole process filmed. The songs were instantly released in form of a free mp3 download and video stream- straight from ?lafur's Reykjavik apartment. In his own words: 'One night I was just playing my piano here in this apartment and I was writing a new song and I didn't have my phone on me which I usually use to record ideas. So I actually took out my MacBook and I didn't want to open like a proper recording program, so I just opened Photo Booth and recorded a video of myself playing the song so that I would remember the song. And I really liked the atmosphere of that video and that's when I thought I should do a series of songs in my living room...'  Olafur Arnalds