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'.
re:member
Ólafur Arnalds Lyrics
We have lyrics for 're:member' by these artists:
DUSTZ I don't need anyone Nobody cares about me But I can do…
F.L.O.W 掻(か)き鳴らせ存在を ここにいると… 新たな旅が今始まる 変わり行く季節の中を 生き抜く度に僕ら 知恵と強さを手に入…
Flow 掻(か)き鳴らせ存在を…
FLOW . 掻き鳴らせ存在を ここにいると 新たな旅が今始まる (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa) (…
Naruto op8 - FLOW 掻き鳴らせ存在を ここにいると 新たな旅が今始まる (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa) (…
ＦＬＯＷ 掻き鳴らせ存在を ここにいると 新たな旅が今始まる (Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa) (…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Ólafur Arnalds:
1953 (instrumental)…
A Mother’s Prayer I pray you'll be my eyes And watch her where…
A Stutter The sun is old on water Yearling flakes keep whirling by "…
Back to the Sky Over the moon Under the stars Feel them arresting me Unknowa…
Before The Calm (instrumental)…
Born To Die My oh me, my Feet don't fail me now Take me to…
Brim (instrumental)…
For Now I Am Winter For now I am winter Lungs debut...…
Fyrsta (instrumental)…
Himininn er að hrynja en stjörnurnar fara þér vel Do you still remember when we were little? We were playing…
Himininn er að hrynja, en stjörnurnar fara þér vel Do you still remember when we were little and we…
Himinninn er að hrynja en stjörnurnar fara þér vel Do you still remember when we were little? We were…
Kjurrt (instrumental)…
Lokaðu augunum I remember it well I asked you not to go But all…
Lynn's Theme It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to…
Old Skin Where the woods would wear the wafting sounds of sea Roves…
Price Tag Coconut man, moon head, and pea You ready? Seems like ev…
Reclaim Arms were rivers, through sinuous hills, woe Winds wore sh…
So Close Through dark and light I fight to be, so close,…
So Close feat. Arnor Dan Through dark and light I fight to be So close Shadows and…
So Far So far from who I was From who I love From who…
Take My Leave Of You Walk down to the water Stare out across the blue Look to…
To Build A Home There is a house built out of stone Wooden floors, walls…
Tunglið (instrumental)…
Undone As we get bigger and bigger The distance between ourselves a…
Við vorum smá I remember it well I asked you not to go But all…
Við vorum smá... I remember it well. I asked you not to go.…
Við Vorum Smá... (Dyad 1909 Version) I remember it well: I asked you not to go, But all…
Við Vorum Smá… I remember it well I asked you not to go But all…
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Firebrain
Remember who you are.
Remember how you got here.
Remember what you love.
Remember what happiness.
Remember your friendships.
Remember where you're going.
Remember to let go.
Remember to move on.
Remember.
Julia Anne
I just discovered your music this morning and it is so incredible, moving, beautifully stunning.
You are so lucky to be able to write and perform music like you do. Thank you.
Remember your loneliness
Remember your beauty, your strength and your courage.
Remember your mother's love
Remember her bosom and the infinite love that waved in the air.
Remember how grand and lovely you are.
Remember love and hugging.
Remember friends and laughing.
Remember Youth and living.
Remember your dad's shoulder
Remember your grand pa's hand.
Life is so beautiful and hard.
Remember choice
Remember
when you re:member
Zetetick
@A Soul's Condition Likewise mate,
You're completely welcome, I hope it's of some small use to you! 👍
They're just small practical methods that have been helping me out, a good bit.
(after years of trying to 'think all this stuff through' and getting just about flippin' no where with it all, lol! @~@
So now, I just want to find whatever practical, do-able solutions / methods that I can......ie: No more idealism up the wazzoo.....So, all that stuff I can't change is going on the backburner.
(I may even end up chucking it all into the nearest wheelie-bin, lol)
Good luck to you! 😺
Zetetick
Hi
If I may - Here's some personal suggestions, from experience:
1) Go for walks, longer the better (if you're up awake all night try walking at dawn, it's so quiet, deserted and lovely I've found, and you can breathe in the cool, fresh air before the busyness of the day smogs it up, hear the wind hush and breathe in the treetops, morning birdsong etc, empties the head right out of all its circular bullshit!) Keep walking.
2) Eat well (you can buy a 3-tier steamer (about £25) and just throw fresh food into it! (fish/chicken/veg etc) 20 mins later healthy food is ready!
- takes zero effort & zero cooking skill - and I should know, having neither) '@~@'
- Just doing THIS for a while made a noticeable difference in how I feel.
3) Try out some music with a more fierce energy, maybe like this great new band of dark psy-rock French madmen SLIFT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJoLGNu5BFY&list=PL3MwSUFJxVsFTVkTr17UQtbHLCqXNs4F8&index=110&t=0s
or some more gentle, sincere accoustic music like KOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXTdOefqGf0&list=PLzwsdun_bPP-KtE8EOwXeiuJSTzgR1qI7&index=1
or some music that it's just about impossible to stay sad to, like some classic 1974 Funk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QYbZsBPawI&list=PL94gOvpr5yt2-wFPNHTdQeVvJsQTCHV3V
4) BBC Nature documentaries help give me a sense of existential perspective, and audio books on headphones exercises imagination instead of sitting there stewing in doomy moods.
With change
Ya can't move a whole mountain,
You just can't,
But you CAN pick up a pebble each day,
and have a surprisingly big fuckin pile by the years end!
- Well, this stuff is making some difference for me, after a few fucked years of hospitalizations and pills etc, it's really surprising what a difference little 'pebble-y' changes can make; the dark cloud lifts, the 'stinkin thinkin' recedes, noticeable improvement. 👍
Well, next up for THIS nut cutlet: Meditation (with dark ambient, I find it helps with the old problem of inner STFU) & some Yoga I reckon, why not eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iDloZpSco&t=177s
- Hope this is helpful in some way, and good luck with your own journey! :)
Barbara Shaw
I played this track non-stop after my mother died. It expressed everything I was feeling: the profound loss, the ache of her absence. And life, going on as it does, as it must.
mairuu
condolences, i know i am a year late.
Barbara Shaw
@Wing The Producer I'm so sorry about your mom. Loss is a rough terrain to traverse.
Wing The Producer
I lost my mom to cancer about 3 months ago and this song really speaks to me on that level as well. Thanks for sharing.
JT
@Martin Spence she's watching you......you have to believe that 🙏
JT
I totally get you x
Kamelia Todorov
I walked down the aisle to this song on my wedding day, could not think of anything better the capture the meaning. Thank you x
Scott Barnhill
This is so amazing, it's uncanny how the character in this reminds me of my late son we lost 2 years ago. Such a moving and beautiful song. Went to see you guys in San Diego on his birthday.
Scott Barnhill
@Gloria Cutrer awe thank you and sorry for your loss as well. Yes losing a child is unimaginable pain. Thankfully through family and friends we’ve been doing okay lately. We still sometimes feel like 100ft wave hits us and want him back. We miss him everyday.
Gloria Cutrer
I'm so sorry about your son. I buried my husband 10 days after his 31st birthday. My heart break now mostly for his mother. While I lost the love of my life , she lost her baby. Burying a child goes against every natural law and the order of the universe. I could only imagine your pain but I hope your heart has found some peace.