Iceland has become known for churning out strange beauty in music, from Sigur Ros to Bjork and producer/composer Olafur Arnalds. Arnalds, who started off his career as a metal drummer, made the ...

Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds has been described as a contemporary composer and synthesist, but that doesn't adequately reflect the alchemy of modern and traditional that he is able to blend on ...

“Opia”, from John Koenig’s compendium of made-up words, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, means “the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye”, and this concept was given full expression in ...