For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition (Remastered)) Ólafur Arnalds

• 1Sudden Throw (Remastered 2023)03:18
• 2Brim (Remastered 2023)04:43
• 3For Now I Am Winter (Remastered 2023)05:05
• 4A Stutter (Remastered 2023)05:09
• 5Words Of Amber (Remastered 2023)03:23
• 6Reclaim (Remastered 2023)04:01
• 7Hands, Be Still (Remastered 2023)03:40
• 8Only The Winds (Remastered 2023)05:21
• 9Old Skin (Remastered 2023)04:09
• 10We (Too) Shall Rest (Remastered 2023)02:06
• 11This Place Was A Shelter (Remastered 2023)03:50
• 12Carry Me Anew (Remastered 2023)03:35
• Total Runtime48:20

Info for For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition (Remastered))

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Edition of Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter, the album has been remastered.

Icelander Ólafur Arnalds has earned a reputation as one of the world's most brilliant and accomplished young composers over the course of a few years. He is an artist who combines a neo-classical style with a variety of influences ranging from electronica to minimalism.

Since Arnalds made his debut in 2007 with "Eulogy For Evolution", the 26-year-old has realised a number of very different projects under his own name. These range from his own musical releases to soundtracks for highly successful Hollywood productions ("Looper", "The Hunger Games") and ballet music ("Dyad 1909"). On tours through Europe, North America and China, Arnalds has also presented his music very impressively in concerts and gained a large fan base within a very short time.

With "For Now I Am Winter", Olafur Arnalds now presents his third studio album. His musical ideas here are poppier than ever before and in Arnór Dan Arnarson, the lead singer of the band Agent Fresco, Anrnalds has found a musical partner who fits in wonderfully with his extravagant compositions, creating lyrical, electronic pop anthems.

Ólafur Arnalds is regarded as the most promising talent on the scene around the protagonists Max Richter, Hauschka and Ludovico Einaudi, in which a musical language with diverse dialects is emerging that brings together traditions such as minimal music, classical music, post-rock and experimental computer music. With his music characterised by fragility, a subtle sense of sound and melancholic beauty, the 26-year-old multi-instrumentalist is gaining a steadily growing fan base worldwide. The key elements of the Icelandic composer's chamber music works are the piano, gentle string accompaniment and electronic sounds from the notebook. Arnalds combines influences from classical music, a strong affinity for film music and a specifically Scandinavian pop sensibility to create multi-layered and moving listening experiences.

With his new album "For Now I Am Winter", Ólafur Arnalds has taken the plunge from bedroom producer to composer for the orchestral format. For the first time, he is releasing an album not on the small London label Erased Tapes Records, but on Universal subsidiary Mercury Classics. Arnalds is also breaking new ground with regard to the music, whose usual intimate framework is exploded on "For Now I Am Winter". With the help of his composer friend Nico Muhly, Arnalds arranged his new works for a large orchestra. And for the first time, he presents pieces with vocals on the album. Ólafur Arnalds says of his most ambitious work to date: "It's an album that's very different from what I've done before. But there's no need for my fans to worry, because it's unmistakable that it's still me."

Ólafur Arnalds

Digitally remastered

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Ólafur Arnalds
Born in 1986, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík. He has immersed himself completely in a world of delicate symphonic compositions generating near weightless orchestral pieces. Arnalds explores the crossover from classical to pop by mixing chamber strings and piano with discreet electronics which makes him a perfect fit for cinematic music label Erased Tapes. His motivations are clear: 'The classical scene is kind of closed to people who haven't been studying music all their lives. I would like to bring my classical influence to the people who don't usually listen to this kind of music…open people's minds.'

Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide since his 2007 debut 'Eulogy for Evolution'. His 2008 follow-up EP ‘Variations of Static’ earned Ólafur acclaim from both the contemporary and classical field – transcending a traditional divide. He has sold out some of the world’s most renowned music venues including Barbican Hall in London and has been awarded ‘Best Live Session of 2008’ by BBC Radio 1 presenter Gilles Peterson.

Over the past eighteen months Arnalds has advanced from a former support-act for Sigur Rós to an internationally respected artists in his own right. In April 2009 Arnalds created the 7 song series 'Found Songs' – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter and the official Erased Tapes website with over 300.000 people downloading for free.

December 2009 saw the release of Ólafur’s contemporary dance score 'Dyad 1909', commissioned by the award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor. The dance piece, inspired by Shackleton’s South Pole premiered at the Sadler’s Wells theatre in October 2009 and became a much talked about 5-nights of live music, dance and visuals. BBC Four, the ITV1 South Bank Show and Arte TV Europe broadcasted 'Dyad 1909' on primetime television. In March 2010 he embarked on his first ever China Tour, which included sold-out shows in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing, and a live webcast watched by thousands of fans all round the world.

Ólafur Arnalds' second full-length album '...and they have escaped the weight of darkness', continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements. The sense of an organic crossover recording is reinforced by the involvement of co-producer Barði Jóhannsson of eccentric pop/rock/electronica-formation Bang Gang. Those expecting a mere continuation of the minimal melancholia of his previous albums are in for a surprise, as the record may be the most uplifting and richly orchestrated work of his career.

'Precocious Nordic composer’s sumptuous second LP … Timeless and sublime' **** – UNCUT

'An artist of immense maturity' (9/10) – Drowned In Sound

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