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Twi the Humble Feather play Higher than the end on EVR

New York City’s Twi the Humble Feather popped by East Village Radio’s cavernous
shopfront studios armed with three acoustic guitars and ready to shred. They kicked
off their set with a lush new five-part song suite and followed it up with this track,
Higher Than The End which opens their debut album, Music For Spaceships & Forests.
The album was released on December 16, 2008 and can be found on Friendly Ghost
Recordings.

Recorded and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound by Joseph Hazan.
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Mammút perform Svefnsykt in a Reykjavik rehearsal space

Mammút perform Svefnsykt at Smiðjustígur 4a shortly after receiving the Kraumur
Award for their Kakari album.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers.
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Sudden Weather Change play 1.6 Facilitate Access in RVK

Sudden Weather Change perform 1.6 Facilitate Access at Smiðjustígur 4a.
The track is from their new Kimi Records LP entitled “Stop! Handgrenade
in the Name of Crib Death ‘nderstand?”.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson and
mix by Benjamin Stacey.
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I’ve Got Satan On My Horny Mind

A post Kraumur Awards all-star blues jam featuring Orvar (múm, FM Belfast) riffing
on his devilish love, Borko on rhythm guitar, Orn (Skakkamanage, Seabear) sharing
lead with Þórarinn Guðnason (Agent Fresco), and a rhythm section featuring brothers
Arnljótur (Faðir Vor) and Gylfi Sigurðsson (Retro Stefson) on bass and drums. You’ll
also probably notice Árni Rúnar Hlöðversson (FM Belfast) in the thick of it also along
with Halli Civelek.

Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers.
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Documenting Iceland’s inaugural Kraumur Awards

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.
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