...In 1967 he joined the band Pops with Pétr Kristjánsson, Birgi Hrafnsson and Ólaf Sigurðsson. Pops became reasonably popular and came out on one small album as accompanists for Flos Ólafsson...to be continued... - https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Björgvin_G%C3%ADslasontrax:
01 Day 02 Og Svo Framvegis 03 Remain The Same 04 Doll In A Dream 05 Ef Þú Getur 06 Could It Be Found 07 Hear Me 08 Öræfarokk 09 Ambrosia 10 Don't Ever Go Down 11 It Makes Me Wonde
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Björgvin Gíslason "Öræfarokk"
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Gaius said:
Let me say a few words about Iceland. You have seen, that we have hopped from one island to another one. And as it was the fact with New Zealand, the music of the land of Ice and Fire in the very north of the Atlantic Ocean is particular and not so often shared on the blogscene. You may ask yourself, how many artists from Iceland do I know (without google)?
A short introduction to Iceland itself. By geological view, it is the youngest piece of land of Europe, not older than maybe 15 million years. It's the strangest part of Europe too. The island developed itself as a geological interaction of a broken up and submerged part of Greenland when the Atlantic Oceans was digging deep his way north to the Arctic Sea, the new formed Atlantic Ridge with its volcanos and a Hot Spot in the mantle of the Earth.
The fact, that the Atlantic Ridge comes alive on the surface of the island means that it is divided into an American and an European part at the plate boundary which could be seen in the 'Allmänner-canyon' in the Þingvellir National Park. Millions of tourists have been pictured with one foot on the ground that becomes in the next millions of years America and the other foot in Europe. Funny, but fact is too, that this about 50 km wide stripe of land, crossing the island from southwest to northeast, is full of active volcanos, pulsating (geysirs) and hot springs, earth squakes and other seismic ativities. The average rate of a volcanic eruption in Iceland is round about every 5 years.
Iceland was discovered in the year 870 by the Swedish viking Gardar Svavarsson, who named the new found land after himself (Gadarsholm). The next one, Flóki Vilgerðarson, tried sucessfully to rediscover the island with a little help from Odin's birds, 3 ravens. In the 9. and 10. century settlers came from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and from the Celtic countries (Ireland, Scotland). Iceland was never ruled by a king, but from the 'Allthing', a kind of oligarchic system, ruled by the landowners. The actual language of Iceland comes to the closest to 'Altnordic', the language of the Vikings. So if ever Odin and Thor would come back to Earth, the people of Iceland would be able to tell us what the old Gods have to say.
Iceland is Reykjavik, the Capital, and Reykjavic is Iceland. If you have at least four centres of music in New Zealand (Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Dunedin) where you can start your musical career... in Iceland there's only Reykjavic and no place else. You've got to make it there or fail. Iceland has a population of a little bit more than 360 000 people, 60% are living in the greater Reykjavik region, the rest in small towns and villages around the island. About 60% of the population are protestantic, 4% catholic and at least 2% are Neo-Pagan. they worship the old Nordic Gods. Last but not least, if you're not Scandinavian, you will learn some funny new letters in the alphabet. For ex., the above mentioned Þingvellir is spoken with the English 'TH' (thing) at the beginning.
Hope you will enjoy the music of Iceland.
Gaius, thank you for the background info on Iceland and for everything you have shared with us from there! I am looking forward to hearing them all! Many thanks!
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