The Kraumur Awards is an annual music prize organized by the Kraumur
Music Fund and awarded to the best albums being released in Iceland. This
is a short documentary covering the inaugural Awards that were given to six
albums on November 28, 2008. Nominations and the award winning albums
are chosen by a selected panel of Icelandic music journalists and radio show
hosts with years of experience playing and writing about Icelandic music.
The 2008 Kraumur Awards went to:
* Agent Fresco for Lightbulb Universe
* FM Belfast for How to Make Friends
* Ísafold for All Sounds to Silence Come
* Hugi Guðmundsson for Apocrypha
* Mammút for Karkari
* Retro Stefson for Montaña
The six winners were selected from a shortlist of 20 albums (scroll down).
Recorded and edited by Stuart Rogers.
[download as mp4]
Here’s a song that you’ll be hearing a lot sometime next year - Dísa’s Fast
Train. Lifted from a handmade four song demo E.P, this is one of two tracks
that Dísa performed in a special one-off performance for the Airwaves Podcast
at Iðnó a couple of days after she played there as part of the festival. Joining
her on guitar and vocals is Mads Mouritz.
Thanks to Iceland Naturally for their support for the 2009 Iceland Airwaves
Podcast.
Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Dagný Ósk Aradóttir Pind.
[download as mp4]