From the Ocean/To the Ocean (Memories of Snæfellsjökull)

by Minningar

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1.	From the Ocean 17:59	info	buy track
2.	To the Ocean 17:51	info	buy track
3.	Jökull (Glacier) 10:49	info	buy track
4.	Fjallshlíð (Montain Slope) 10:09	info	buy track
5.	Undirlendi (Lowland) 10:12	info	buy track
6.	Sjávarbakki (Seashore) 11:01	info	buy track
7.	Sönghellir (Singing Cave) 10:41	info	buy track

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The project was born in Iceland by starting to collect the sounds of the Snæfellsjökull glacier and to map the sounds of the whole region around the glacier, called Snæfellsnes. In addition to mapping and cutting the sounds of nature to field recording tracks, they decided to create a form of music compositions by recording 2 long tracks that have as their theme all the sounds collected in Snæfellsnes,
starting from the top of the glacier, following the rivers rising from the glacier that ends in the ocean.

The project was born in 2020 following the great climate changes of the last decades that are accelerating the melting of glaciers in the Arctic at an exponential rate.

The debut album was recorded, mixed, and mastered in the fall of 2020 at Snæfellsjökull and the Greenhouse Studios in Reykjavik. There are two music tracks (1.From the Ocean, 2.To the Ocean) of 18 minutes each one, 4 field recording tracks of 10 minutes each and a track "Sönghellir" recorded with Kalimba in a cave located near the glacier that is famous in the old Eddas for the echos. For the album release they will perform live in Reykjavik and there will be an exhibition of a sound-installation with field recording tracks and a collection of drawings on painted using the water from the ice taken from Snæfellsjökull. The paintings are created by the hands of an Italian Icelandic-based artist Rossana Silvia, who with Daniele decided to leave in artform the memory from the ice of the glacier.

credits

released April 8, 2021

Produced by

Eyrún Engilbertsdóttir (Grand Piano, Synthesizer, Alto Sax, Kalimba, effects)
Úlfur Hansson (Orichalcum/ὀρείχαλκο the newest custom built synthesizer created by him, Mini-Moog, effects)
Magnus Bergsson (field recordings)
Daniele Girolamo (electric guitar, harmonium, cello, tape machine, analog sound processing)

Mixing and mastering by Francesco Fabris
Music recorded by Minningar at GreenHouse Studio Iceland in September 2020.

Album cover photography and Graphics by Daniele Girolamo.

This project is sponsored by Tónlistarsjóður Rannís.

Special thanks to Teresa Dröfn Freysdóttir Njarðvík for giving us Runes: The Icelandic book of Fuþark.

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Minningar Reykjavík, Iceland

Minningar is a music and art project focused to collect sounds of nature together with our own sounds, to keep the memories.

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