{"title":"Samaris","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"samaris-samaris","title":"Samaris - Samaris","description":"\u003cp\u003eIcelandic teenage wunderkind Samaris's first UK release comes in the shape of an eponymously titled album compiling their two Icelandic-released EPs - Hljóma Þú (2011) and Stofnar falla (recorded at Sigur Rós' Sundlaugin studio with Gunnar Tynes of múm, 2012) and includes 4 additional remixes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining disparate elements of electronics (Þórður Kári Steinþórsson), clarinet (Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir) and Jófríður Ákadóttir's haunting voice, Samaris mix glacial electronica and bold, percussive beats with haunting chant-like vocals - the lyrics culled from nineteenth-century Icelandic poems. 'Viltu Vitrast', for example, retells an Icelandic folk tale \u003cspan id=\"more_5119\"\u003eabout villagers who ask for help from a supernal being, but worry it will choose not to manifest its power on Earth. 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Combining disparate elements of electronics (Þórður Kári Steinþórsson, aka 'Doddi'), clarinet (Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir) and Jófríður Ákadóttir's enchanting voice, Samaris mix glacial electronica and bold, percussive beats with haunting chant-like vocals - the lyrics culled from nineteenth century Icelandic poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamaris had spent a good deal of the previous year on the road playing festivals like Roskilde, Green Man, Reeperbahn, Longitude, All Tomorrow's Parties and Airwaves. Performing at different times of day and sometimes playing more \u003cspan id=\"more_44102\"\u003eunusual arts and gallery spaces, the trio found themselves instinctively tailoring the songs to suit what the environment suggested. So the idea for the Sessions album became, as singer Jófríður attests, \"to try and capture the moments that happen live when we surprise each other and play around with our parts. I guess the main difference between Silkidrangar and the Sessions album lies within the rawness and improvisation that the sessions contain and the speediness with which they were recorded; we deliberately went into the studio with only a very loose idea of what we wanted to come out with.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmploying ambient, acoustic and even dub elements, the reworked versions combine the immediacy of live performance with the flexibility of the studio. Recorded over two days in Reykjavík, to facilitate further improvisation the band invited contributions from local musician friends with diverse backgrounds, who added tabla drums, cello, saxophone and modular synth. \"Before recording, we'd play them the song once, loosely describe the arrangement and then hit record,\" says Jófríður. \"The unexpected element, the session player, who has never heard the song and has a completely different feel for it, added that extra thing it needed to make it fresh and unique. We allowed ourselves to play them for as long as needed so a song that used to be 3 minutes is perhaps now 7 or 8.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide One\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Intro\u003cbr\u003e2. Ég vildi fegin\u003cbr\u003e3. Lífsins ólgubjór\u003cbr\u003e4. Þótt hann rigni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide Two\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Hrafninn\u003cbr\u003e6. 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All are now based in separate cities: Þórður Kári Steinþórsson (aka Doddi - programming) relocating to Berlin to take part in the city's burgeoning techno scene, Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir (clarinet) to The Hague to study a specialised Sonology course and Jófríður Ákadóttir (voice) footloose, traveling to experience new places and the musical cultures within them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin months of forming in their teens in Reykjavik in 2011, Samaris had won both the Icelandic Músíktilraunir and Kraumur Award. The release of their two Icelandic EPs as the eponymous, Samaris in summer 2013 served as their first introduction to the wider world. \"We want people to experience something they haven't experienced before,\" they told a curious Dazed \u0026amp; Confused, and once Silkidrangar - their debut LP proper - had dropped, the original aspiration of \"just wearing funny costumes and thinking maybe we could get a gig in a bar in Reykjavik\" became distant memory as Samaris took their hypnotising show round the world taking in Roskilde, Green Man, Sónar, Reeperbahn, Longitude and All Tomorrow's Parties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe continuous travel, and playing shows in different, unfamiliar places-from packed nightclubs in some of the world's biggest cities, to large-scale open-air festivals in front of crowds of thousands-was eye-opening for the young Icelandic trio. It culminated in a deepened musical understanding, and a sibling-like personal connection. All of this experience is audible on their second studio album, Black Lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Black Lights comes from a wider context than the first album,\" says Jófríður, \"which was very much an ode to Iceland. It's the result of all the travelling and playing. It's much more upbeat, full of life, driven. People couldn't really dance to the older, slower songs... but sometimes they would anyway. We played a show in the north of Italy-it was like a discotheque in the 80s. People were going insane, like they'd never heard a band like us before. It was such a good experience. It was funny, and surreal, and beautiful, all at once.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt some point during their travels, the decision was made to switch to English language lyrics. Indeed, the album's opening track, 'Wanted 2 Say,' is a \"coming out\" of sorts, in which Jófríður seems happy to be articulating herself to the band's growing international audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We just thought: 'Fuck it, let's just write lyrics. We can do it,'\" says Jófríður. \"Wanted 2 Say actually started out as my thoughts about Iceland and the nature, how it's our most precious thing-you know that cliché! But the theme of that song became more about us writing and expressing our thoughts in English. We wrote a lot of lyrics about love, and life, and how confusing and complicated it all is. So that's a theme.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting album is an exciting, invigorated new Samaris who-perhaps ironically, given the shift away from their native tongue-are expressing themselves more fluently than ever before. 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