Tonight the Icelandic music business celebrates the music achievements of 2009 on television with live music, awards and impressive hairdos. Yep, it's time for The 2010 Icelandic Music Awards.
You might remember that this time last yearToggiand Bjarki snatched the 'Best Song' award, but tonight we are keeping all available body parts crossed for Einar Tönsberg, orEberg. And we have a good reason to, as he is nominated for 3 important awards.
Feldberg's'Don't be a stranger' is nominated for Pop album of the Year, 'Dreamin' is nominated for Song of the Year, and Einar himself is nominated as Composer of the Year for his work with Feldberg and Eberg. Not too shabby.
From your frequent visits here, you should know who Bjarki is by now. What you might not know about him is that at night he dresses up in fancy vintage synthesizers and becomes Northern Lights Orchestra, or NLO.
Bjarki just finished an NLO remix of Worm Is Green's single March On! for an EP containing the original song, 2 b-sides and remixes by The Esoteric Gender, Futuregrapher and Roger O'Donnell (Roger played keyboards in a little known but promising band called The Cure) and of course NLO.
By now of course, you must be curious to hear what it sounds like: Worm is green - March On! - NLO remix
Nominations for the 2009 Icelandic Advertising Awards or "Lúðurinn" (as we of course call them) are in.
We are happy to have contributed work to four of the nominated projects, and will of course use this opportunity to brag here on the interwebs, so you think we are really cool, and want to work with us. And as always, we hurry to do this while they are still nominations, because 2009 was a good year in advertising in Iceland, and all this work has strong contenders.
Nominated for best TV ad, and best campaign, is Netvarinn for Siminn.
Nominated for best work in open catagory is a song, Suzy Thunder's BIG, which we produced for Vodafone and their agency Fíton. More details about the campaign and TV ad here.
The song did well in Icelandic charts and got good airplay, we are still giving it away here, where it has been downloaded over 20.000 times now. YouTube plays are up to almost the same number. We did club remixes as well, and gave them away here. The song hit the youth market spot on, and is still being played in clubs and discos, adding great value to the campaign for Vodafone.
Finally we produced this radio ad "Kattskar", a clever script nominated for best radio work, for IKEA and their agency Íslenska. Unless you were born on a cold rock in the North-Atlantic you won't understand it though:
This just in - Sanitas, Olafur's 6th album under the moniker Stafrænn Hákon is ready, and will be out on the 26th of February.
Well, we've heard it, and guess what? It's beautiful. 12 well written songs with great texture and catchy melodies. It's more poppy than we expected. In a good way.
That's all very nice and dandy, but now, of course you want proof. And here it is, 2 of the new songs ready for your listening pleasure. If you want them for your film or commercial work, you know who to call. (That would be us, in case you were not sure). So, without further ado, from the upcoming album Sanitas, we bring you: Emmergreen
Temporality
Check this out for more info on the release, and here are some links for you, The official website, The Facebook fan page, and the inevitable MySpace page. And guys, if you like this, please help us spread the word, with all the social media tools available to you.
More recent work for you: Metro, a brand new fast food chain, opened their doors with big fanfare in the last quarter of 2009. They needed a catchy and lively song for their radio and TV campaigns. Who you gonna call?
Don Pedro and Eberg joined forces and wrote and recorded "Feels like heaven". And now it can be heard all over the place. And here, of course:
