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NUOVO ARTISTA IN CASA ERASED TAPES RECORDS.
VOCE
DELLA BAND ISLANDESE HJALTALIN E MEMBRO DEI GUSGUS,
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CANTANTE E COMPOSITORE HOGNI EGILSSON
PRESENTA IL SUO PROGETTO SOLISTA
HOGNI
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CUI ALBUM DI DEBUTTO E’ IN ARRIVO ENTRO L’ANNO PER ERASED TAPES/AUDIOGLOBE
una piccola anticipazione del nuovo
album di HOGNI:
In his native Iceland, Högni Egilsson is one of the best known
contemporary singers and songwriters. Importantly and interestingly, his music
and performance style is equally loved by music aficionados and less serious,
commercially inclined listeners.
Growing up, Högni learned to play the violin, but it was only in his
late teens that he taught himself how to play the guitar and developed an
interest in performing and writing pop songs. Mastery of the piano soon followed
and complemented an extended course in improvisation and the harmonies of jazz,
while a long stint in his high-school choir helped train his voice. Before enrolling in composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts
at 21, Högni was already known as an extremely talented musician among his
peers. With the 2007 release of Sleepdrunk Seasons, the debut album by
Hjaltalín - an indie rock group fronted by Högni - that notion went national
and within months his voice and compositions were seemingly everywhere in
Iceland; on television, on the radio and on stages around the country.
Still, Hjaltalín’s second album Terminal (2009) proved a much
bigger hit - winning ‘album of the year’ at the Icelandic Music Awards and its
five singles spending a combined 44 weeks on the National Radio’s Top 20. If Terminal
is Hjaltalín’s most popular set of songs yet, 2012’s Enter 4 marks
the height of their critical acclaim. It is a sparer and darker album and
without a doubt Hjaltalín’s best.
A chance encounter that revealed a shared interest in sailing
brought Högni and President Bongo from the famed electronic group Gusgus
together. By 2011 Högni was a full-time member of the band and featured
prominently on Arabian Horse - by many considered Gusgus’s finest album
to date. His voice and fingerprints are all over Mexico (2014) as well,
not least in lead single ‘Obnoxiosly Sexual’. With Gusgus, Högni has toured
extensively in Europe and North America, gaining a strong personal following,
particularly in Eastern Europe.
While fronting two touring bands, Högni has made time to score
numerous theatre pieces, most notably The Heart of Robin Hood (dir. Gísli
Gardarsson), staged by The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2011 and Angels of
the Universe (dir. Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson), the Icelandic National
Theatre’s 2013 adaptation of a well-known and loved novel and film of the same
title.
He has also written music for film and television, including a
well-received score for short film Víkingar (dir. Magali Magistry, 2013)
which won the Golden Rail award and was nominated for the Discovery award, both
at the Cannes Film Festival.
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