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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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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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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.
[download as mp4]
FM Belfast dole out the confetti during Par Avion at NASA
And don’t the kids just love it!
Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers.
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Borko shreds Iron Maiden’s The Trooper in his Reykjavik flat
A little outtake from our session with Borko. It seems the boys needed to get their
wrok on after strumming through a couple of original tracks and spontaneously
busted into some prime Maiden.
Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound recorded by Paul Sullivan and edited by Björn Kristjánsson.
[download as mp4]
