Born 1986 in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers o… Read Full Bio ↴Born 1986 in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometers outside of Reykjavík, composer/performer Ólafur Arnalds has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and live-shows. Since the release of his debut album "Eulogy for Evolution" in 2007 he has built up a dedicated international following and is well established for his genre-crossing compositions blending classical, pop and ambient/electronica influences to a unique musical language.
Starting out as drummer for several hardcore/metal bands, Ólafur was asked to write instrumental intros and outros for the album "Antigone" of German metal band Heaven Shall Burn. This led to more work in the field of neo-classical strings and piano based music, and ultimately to the release of Eulogy for Evolution and the beginning of Ólafur's partnership with Berlin based label Erased Tapes. In 2008 he embarked on a tour with fellow Icelanders Sigur Rós.
In 2009 he started a week-long project of composing one track by day, making it immediately available online to his fans. The collection was later officially released under the title Found Songs. He repeated the same experiment in 2011 under the title Living Room Songs. Also in 2009 the ballet Dyad 1909 premiered with a score composed by Ólafur. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor and performed by Wayne McGregor Random Dance, the ballet was inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole in 1909. That year he also started Kiasmos, together with Janus Rasmussen. Kiasmos is a minimal techno based project. Their self titled debut album was released in 2014, preceded by the Thrown EP.
In April 2010 Ólafur released his second full-length album entitled ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness, which was backed up with an extensive tour, including his first trip to China.
His third album, and the first to be released under his new partnership with Universal Music's Mercury Classics imprint, is titled For Now I Am Winter and planned for international release in February 2013. Expanding on his previous work the new album features a full orchestra and – for the first time – introduces vocals to his soundworld. Icelandic singer Arnór Dan is to be heard on four tracks of the album.
More recently Ólafur has been venturing into the world of films, writing his first Hollywood film score to Another Happy Day. He also had music in the hit film The Hunger Games and has been featured several times on popular American television show So You Think You Can Dance. For 2013 his scores include the music to the ITV thriller series Broadchurch, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman, as well as to the film Gimme Shelter, directed by Ron Krauss and starring Vanessa Hudgens and Brendan Fraser.
In 2014 Arnalds won the prestigious BAFTA Television Craft Award for his score to the BBC's hit detective series 'Broadchurch'.
Starting out as drummer for several hardcore/metal bands, Ólafur was asked to write instrumental intros and outros for the album "Antigone" of German metal band Heaven Shall Burn. This led to more work in the field of neo-classical strings and piano based music, and ultimately to the release of Eulogy for Evolution and the beginning of Ólafur's partnership with Berlin based label Erased Tapes. In 2008 he embarked on a tour with fellow Icelanders Sigur Rós.
In 2009 he started a week-long project of composing one track by day, making it immediately available online to his fans. The collection was later officially released under the title Found Songs. He repeated the same experiment in 2011 under the title Living Room Songs. Also in 2009 the ballet Dyad 1909 premiered with a score composed by Ólafur. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor and performed by Wayne McGregor Random Dance, the ballet was inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole in 1909. That year he also started Kiasmos, together with Janus Rasmussen. Kiasmos is a minimal techno based project. Their self titled debut album was released in 2014, preceded by the Thrown EP.
In April 2010 Ólafur released his second full-length album entitled ...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness, which was backed up with an extensive tour, including his first trip to China.
His third album, and the first to be released under his new partnership with Universal Music's Mercury Classics imprint, is titled For Now I Am Winter and planned for international release in February 2013. Expanding on his previous work the new album features a full orchestra and – for the first time – introduces vocals to his soundworld. Icelandic singer Arnór Dan is to be heard on four tracks of the album.
More recently Ólafur has been venturing into the world of films, writing his first Hollywood film score to Another Happy Day. He also had music in the hit film The Hunger Games and has been featured several times on popular American television show So You Think You Can Dance. For 2013 his scores include the music to the ITV thriller series Broadchurch, starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman, as well as to the film Gimme Shelter, directed by Ron Krauss and starring Vanessa Hudgens and Brendan Fraser.
In 2014 Arnalds won the prestigious BAFTA Television Craft Award for his score to the BBC's hit detective series 'Broadchurch'.
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@Grace_in_space
13 years ago I lost my male best friend to suicide I wrote this the night before his bday not knowing who it was for and not realising it was his bday until later
I was going to send to his mum but then thought it’s for so many mums and there’s so many in this pain something I fear so much I never had children
They can take my body but they can’t take my soul
When you stand in that flame I stand there with you, but to me the flame is no longer a fire from where I stand
You can drown in rivers from your tears and I stand there with you
I stand the same but the only difference between you and me is that I am free and I feel no pain
Little boy no more
Or less or more
I am in the same house but without walls and doors
I am the thorns I am the petals it all feels the same where I stand
& I stand there with you
You cry for the little boy as I stand there with you
That little boy is now big dreams
Dreams I have for you
The nightmares you have me in, isn’t where I stand
I am not there
The little boy so small I fit into every crack of your shattered soul and so big I can see past all the days of pain that seem for you so endless
My little hand from where I stand is big enough to carry all the million pieces of you’re broken heart
In my new reality I am everywhere I choose to be and everything I want to be
I can even have you next to me, and next to you is where I’ll always be
If only you could see my world from where you are on earth
The little boy has been rebirthed
My short life you see from where you stand
But my life is longer than I knew it to be when I was behind the door
There is nothing I haven’t seen and there is no where I havent been
Nothing missing nothing I need to do
I am still in the world that you created and the world I’m in now also created you
This is where I’m deaf to the sound of cries
Fire doesn’t burn and water doesn’t drown me
There is no pain where I stand, and when I see the pain on earth I forgot even how it feels
I don’t forget a single moment of happiness we shared in fact I live it in every moment where I am and it is here where you’re happiness is, it’s alive and next to me. If only you could see what I mean from where I am. It’s a dreamland that doesn’t exist to you but it’s a land where I will always stand. I will stand here on the top of the hill waiting for the day you climb up to the top and forever hold my hand. From where you are the mountains may fall and crumble many times before you get to the top of that hill. You may feel to be at the bottom but to me you are at the top, standing next to me. I’ll stand here waiting for you until you see that the mountain was and will always be here, and it’s your mind that crumbles. Once you have crumbled every wall and opened every door until no more … you will find me and it will be where our worlds will finally meet and what we no longer need will slip away from under our feet. Together we will fly free forever where there is always the sun and always the moon, and all the stars that were once so out of reach are now twinkling at our feet.
@Grace_in_space
They can take my body but they can’t take my soul
When you stand in that flame I stand there with you, but to me the flame is no longer a fire from where I stand
You can drown in rivers from your tears and I stand there with you
I stand the same but the only difference between you and me is that I am free and I feel no pain
Little boy no more
Or less or more
I am in the same house but without walls and doors
I am the thorns I am the petals it all feels the same where I stand
& I stand there with you
You cry for the little boy as I stand there with you
That little boy is now big dreams
Dreams I have for you
The nightmares you have me in, isn’t where I stand
I am not there
The little boy so small I fit into every crack of your shattered soul and so big I can see past all the days of pain that seem for you so endless
My little hand from where I stand is big enough to carry all the million pieces of you’re broken heart
In my new reality I am everywhere I choose to be and everything I want to be
I can even have you next to me, and next to you is where I’ll always be
If only you could see my world from where you are on earth
The little boy has been rebirthed
My short life you see from where you stand
But my life is longer than I knew it to be when I was behind the door
There is nothing I haven’t seen and there is no where I havent been
Nothing missing nothing I need to do
I am still in the world that you created and the world I’m in now also created you
This is where I’m deaf to the sound of cries
Fire doesn’t burn and water doesn’t drown me
There is no pain where I stand, and when I see the pain on earth I forgot even how it feels
I don’t forget a single moment of happiness we shared in fact I live it in every moment where I am and it is here where you’re happiness is, it’s alive and next to me. If only you could see what I mean from where I am. It’s a dreamland that doesn’t exist to you but it’s a land where I will always stand. I will stand here on the top of the hill waiting for the day you climb up to the top and forever hold my hand. From where you are the mountains may fall and crumble many times before you get to the top of that hill. You may feel to be at the bottom but to me you are at the top, standing next to me. I’ll stand here waiting for you until you see that the mountain was and will always be here, and it’s your mind that crumbles. Once you have crumbled every wall and opened every door until no more … you will find me and it will be where our worlds will finally meet and what we no longer need will slip away from under our feet. Together we will fly free forever where there is always the sun and always the moon, and all the stars that were once so out of reach are now twinkling at our feet.
@ap207
So far from who I was
From who I love
From who I want to be
So far from all our dreams
From all it means
From you here next to me
So far from seeing home
I stand out here alone
Am I asking for too much?
So far from being free
Of the past that's haunting me
The future I just can't touch
And if you take my hand
Please pull me from the dark
And show me hope again
We'll run side-by-side
No secrets left to hide
Sheltered from the pain
@alexkessel5980
No day...no night...
No dark...no light...
No truth...no lie...
No words...no minds...
No stars...no sky...
No fire...no ice...
No tears...no smile...
No touch...no fight...
No fears...no cry...
No pain...I'm fine...
No live... no die...
Not yet... tonight...
Just cream... just give me ... sign...
@jesusesescalona
Hoy el Viento me hablo de ti
Un momento extraordinario me vino a la mente, para seguir con amor recordándote
Fue la vida, la que te trajo hasta aquí, para compartir conmigo y vivir junto a mi
Pero un día como hoy, una hoja en el suelo, me hizo pensar que nada es duradero
Y hoy me doy cuenta que la tierra es tan árida, desde que ya no estás
Y que las sonrisas se han marchado muy lejos, a algún otro lugar
Hoy creo que el cielo se hace un lugar maravilloso
Donde se respira calma, no hay cabida a la violencia, solo paz y tranquilidad
Hoy, es el cielo el lugar al que ahora tu habitas
Y se que desde las alturas me cuidas, me guías, me observas
Y sobre todo, me amas, sin decir alguna palabra
Hoy
Hoy es el Viento el que me ha hablado acerca de ti
Quisiera preguntarle muchas cosas, pero se, que no tendrá respuestas para mi
Autor: Jesús L. Escalona
Título: Hoy el viento me hablo de ti
Fecha: Agosto 07-2012
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Greetings from Venezuela
@devinmichaelroberts9954
Im dying of cancer at the age of 98 and your music gives me life!
@AM_I_Able
Praying for you. <3 I'm glad you can find solace in this music, as do I.
@squareinsquare2078
That's my son in the video. So proud of him.
@biplobhossain8260
wow!!that’s beautiful!!!
@familytree81
!!!
@StormageddonTMS
That is amazing. Congratulations
@farhaddurrani1221
Cute kid and he's done a great job
@pablov.7000
youre olafur's dad ?
@mimimimimi..
sometimes i'm scared to listen to new songs from him, because i know they will awake emotions inside of me i didn't even know existed.
@joycemcdermott2079
That’s what it’s all about. Babe