ÁSGEIR
presenta
IL NUOVO
VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO DI “UNBOUND”
IL PRIMO
SINGOLO TRATTO DA “AFTERGLOW”,
L’ATTESO NUOVO ALBUM DEL TALENTO ISLANDESE IN USCITA IL 5 MAGGIO su ONE LITTLE
INDIAN - AUDIOGLOBE
Guarda
e condividi il video di Unbound:
Directed by Julien Lassort
Produced by Solab
Un mondo di realtà virtuale sconosciuto, in cui le
persone sono in grado di esprimere i loro desideri più profondi e oscuri,
attraverso una lente di futuristica realtà virtuale. Il video, che esplora le vite
virtuali dei protagonisti, rappresenta la perfetta interazione tra le parole
"Nothing
holds me back now", e un mondo virtuale che deve
ancora esistere.
ÁSGEIR nella
line up di ICELAND AIRWAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL 2017
Dopo il precedente e pluripremiato “In
The Silence”, Ásgeir, il compositore
e polistrumentista islandese che ha conquistato il mondo e venduto milioni di
copie, conquistando il cuore degli appassionati di pop sopraffino, torna con “Afterglow”, il secondo album in uscita il il 5 maggio 2017 su One Little Indian / Audioglobe.
Ad anticipare il disco “Unbound”, il singolo che in meno di
un mese ha già ottenuto oltre 520.000 ascolti su Spotify
“Unbound” Assets:
Official Music Video
Hljóðriti
Session (Live): https://youtu.be/iPyswW9o9bY
Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and
collaborator; the mighty Ásgeir returns with brand new single 'Unbound',
and announces his highly anticipated second album 'Afterglow'. The musician is set to headline Iceland Airwaves in November, with an
exclusive show at Eldborg, Harpa at this year’s festival.
‘Unbound’
is a stunning, yearning piece of music – surely a career-defining moment for
the musician, who’s follow up to debut album ‘In The Silence’ is greatly anticipated by fans worldwide. The
Icelandic artist has spent three years honing and perfecting the eleven tracks
that make up this magnificent and affecting body of work. Unplanned track and
lead single from the album ‘Unbound’ is a glittering menagerie of chirping
electronic melodies and stop-start beats that came about in a last minute
studio session, evolving from a singular, inspiring lyric: “Nothing holds me
back now.”
Released
on May 5th 2017 via One
Little Indian, Afterglow has
all the confident hallmarks of an artist who’s now at home with his status as
one of music’s most exciting new voices. “I consider myself lucky to have been
able to go around the world with my friends to play,” he says. “Before touring
I had only been to Sweden and Denmark. Now I don’t even remember where I have
been or where I have not been.” That globe-trotting wisdom is keenly felt on Afterglow,
which ambitiously balances icy electronic shades of Bon Iver, James Blake
and Anohni with soul, R&B and even
gospel influences from different eras and places.
The album
leaves behind the folk-tinged acoustics of 2014 debut album ‘In The Silence’
and dives into melancholic electronica in its purest form. The spell-binding
artist has also once again collaborated with his father – renowned poet Einar
Georg Einarsson – for ‘Afterglow’, who is credited with writing the lyrics for
the entire album alongside long-time musical collaborators, Ásgeir’s brother Thorsteinn, Julius Robertsson & Hogni. Talking about ‘Afterglow’, Ásgeir said: "I feel like
I have achieved plenty already with this album, gotten to know myself better,
feel like I’ve grown a lot. Not just because of the album, but it has
definitely helped."
Winner of
the 2012 Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, ‘In The Silence’ sold
so many copies that it is estimated one-tenth of the population now owns that
release. (BBC Radio 2 host, Dermot O'Leary, once tested this theory out,
calling a random number in the Icelandic phonebook – the woman who answered not
only owned a copy, but Ásgeir’s mother had taught her son at school.) The
ubiquity of the album (entitled Dýrð í dauðaþögn in Iceland) also
caught the attention of musician John Grant, who immediately
recognised Ásgeir's musical talent and ended up translating the lyrics into
English for the international version of the album.
The
introverted and humble artist couldn’t have predicted the immensity of his
success off the back of ‘In The Silence’ – coming from the Icelandic town of
Laugarbakki, populated by just 40 people. The same year, Ásgeir sold out two
shows at Sydney Opera House, one at Shepard’s Bush Empire and played a
mesmerising show at London’s Union Chapel, which sold out months in advance.
The album became the fastest selling debut from a home grown artist in Iceland,
breaking all previous records and outselling Björk and Sigur Ros by
a long way. At just 20 years of age, Ásgeir
had become an overnight sensation.
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