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Release Date Friday 5th December 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
With her new album, Spira (Sprout), Olof Arnalds has found her joy in writing
songs rekindled
In many ways it harkens back to her debut: it is exclusively in Icelandic, the
arrangements are markedly stripped back compared to her last two records, and it is
mostly recorded in single takes in the control room of Sundlaugin, much like Vio og
vio.
Although a classically trained singer and violinist, Olof has been an active practitioner
of popular music for thirty years, the watershed moment was the 2007 release of her
debut solo album Vio og vio (Now and Again , wider international release in 2009),
produced by Sigur Ros' Kjartan Sveinsson in the band's converted swimming- pool
studio Sundlaugin. It seemed to appear fully formed out of the ether, and became a
local classic almost overnight, winning accolades such as 'Best Alternative Album' at
the Iceland Music Awards, named 'Record of the Year' by Iceland's principal daily
newspaper and recognised as one of the decade's 100 best albums by eMusic.
Spira is produced by Skuli Sverrisson, who also contributes bass and guitar. His mind-
melting resume includes musical direction for Laurie Anderson, recordings with
Blonde Redhead and work with artists such as David Sylvian, Jon Hassell, Ryuichi
Sakamoto, Bill Frisell and Arto Lindsay. Davio por Jonsson contributes piano and
guitar to the record- much as he did during Olof's busiest touring schedule nearly
fifteen years ago when the two of them toured the world for months on end. There is
hardly a jazz musician in Iceland he hasn't played with but lately he is perhaps best
known for his close collaboration with Ragnar Kjartansson, one of this century's most
celebrated visual artists.
Tracks: Heimurinn nuna / Von um mildi / Stein fyrir stein / Spira /
Vorkoma / Tar i morgunsario / Ufinn sjor / Afl pitt og hus / Lifandi
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