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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Retro Stefson play Senseni at the Airwaves closing night party
Retro Stefson bust out their monster jam Senseni at NASA for the Iceland Airwaves
closing night party. The festival hosts a free Sunday night event featuring encore
performances by bands that lit up the event. Retro Stefson’s show at Tunglið on the
festival’s opening night as part of the Kimi Records showcase was for mine one of the
top 3 Airwaves shows I’ve seen in the four years I’ve been covering the festival.
Shot and edited by Stuart Rogers.
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Retro Stefson cover Hjaltalín’s cover of Páll Óskar
Retro Stefson complete a trilogy of covers for the Iceland Airwaves podcast with their
reworking of Hjaltalín’s cover of Páll Óskar’s Þú komst við hjartað í mér (You touched
my heart). During Airwaves 2007, Sprengjuhöllin covered Retro Stefson’s Medallion
while Hjaltalín mustered up a version of Sprengjuhöllin’s Verum í sambandi sans lead
singer. Look out Páll Óskar, you’re next!
Recorded and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound mix by Benedikt Hermann Hermannsson.
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Retro Stefson perform an acoustic version of Salvatore
Retro Stefson perform Salvatore in their Reykjavik living room. The song is taken
from their fantastic debut album Montana which is now out on Kimi Records.
Recorded and edited by Stuart Rogers with sound mix by Benedikt Hermann Hermannsson.
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Sprengjuhöllin interview and live during Iceland Airwaves 2007
The boys from Sprengjuhöllin give some chat and play some tunes at Atli Bollason’s
apartment in Reykjavik. As you see this a no holds barred contest of wit and
imagination. Designed vomit trays, intellectual groupies at the Nordic House,
Atli sticking his finger up his arse - it’s all here. Asking the tough questions and
not flinching a bit is their comrade, Dagný Ósk Aradóttir.
Two live performances are included - Keyrum yfir Island, as well as a guitar and
melodica treatment of Retro Stefson’s Medallion.
Shot by and edited by Stuart Rogers for the Iceland Airwaves podcast.
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