Hildur Gudnadóttir, “Erupting Light,” Without Sinking (Touch 2009)
Hildur Gudnadóttir is the cellist for Angel, and now brings us her first solo record on the Touch label (‘Mount A’ was released on the Icelandic label ‘12 Tónar’ in 2006). This song moves one deeply into psychic bliss—a lovely meditation on all things growing and feeling.
Touch’s promo notes that “Hildur flew so much during 2007 and 2008 that she spent alot of time staring at clouds through the airplane window, considering their appearance and formation… She says: ‘My aim with this record was to create a feeling of breath with a bow on string. I wanted to create a sky and cloud-like feeling in the compositions. I wanted to have open space for single notes and let them breath, like single clouds in a clear sky. As a contrast I also wanted create denser and heavier compositions which were more thundercloud like. I like the way clouds form, how many tiny droplets can form such dense forms and then slowly evaporate into thin string-like ones.’”
» Read an interview with Hildur Gudnadóttir at www.icelandmusic.is
» See Hildur Gudnadóttir perform with BJNilsen live in London, 16th May 2009, as part of Touch Presents… at The Roundhouse - details below.
Go to Touch shop to buy a copy. Or in the U.S. go to Forced Exposure.
