It goes without saying that if you like the song you should not keep it to yourself. That would be selfish. Please use all social media tools available to you to spread the gospel. And please join Toggi on Facebook, but avoid his MySpace site because MySpace sucks. As for Twitter, there is always .:this:.(in Icelandic)
If you want to surf more Toggi stuff on this site, listen to Wonderful, Silly Old Song and I Built This House by pressing your pointing device of choice upon the song titles.
Credits:
Music: Toggi, Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro, Helgi Egilsson, Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson Lyrics: Toggi Toggi: Vocals, Backing Vocals Don Pedro: Guitars Bjarki Jónsson: Rhodes Helgi Egilsson: Bass Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson - Drums, Backing Vocals Ólöf Jara Skagfjörð - Backing Vocals String Arrangement: Northern Lights Orchestra Produced and Recorded in Wömbin Studios & Studio Mjöt by Bjarki Jónsson, Don Pedro & Toggi Mixed and Mastered by Don Pedro & Bjarki Jónsson at Wömbin Studios Artwork Designed by Karitas Pálsdóttir
As we mentioned .:here:. earlier, Olafur's latest work under the moniker of Stafrænn Hákon is ready for aural consumption. It is called 'Sanitas', released by Darla Records in the US and Happy Prince in Asia.
Now we also have a release date for Iceland by one of our favorite labels, Kimi Records. Or at least a release month. Estimates say 23rd of April, but don't blame us if you catch a cold waiting in a queue outside your record shop of choice. It's an estimate.
Well. We've ranted about how much we like Sanitas. We've put up streams of 2 of the songs .:here:.. Now it's high time to give you your own copy of Temporality to enjoy wherever and whenever you see fit.
Please share this link if you like the music. If this gets you all warm and fuzzy inside and excited about buying the album, that's fine as well. If you are in Iceland we just told you how. If you live on the internets, click here for an online purchase.
Remember to pay digital respect to the official homepage and the Facebook Fan page, but don't go to the MySpace site, because MySpace sucks. A lot. And check back here. More free music very soon.
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:
