Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to… Read Full Bio ↴Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to boil over because of all its energy, lust and sometimes also funniness. A record, equally peculiar as idiosyncratic. As the pot is that huge 26-year-old Benni Hemm Hemm throws all possible ingredients in.
And it is that peculiar as all the different ingredients do not spoil the paste in the end. It’s a little big band with little big songs. The greatest of them takes only 2 minutes and 58 seconds: „Beygja Og Beygja“.
There is the emphatic brass section of Northern Soul. And, last but not least, there is a Benni Hemm Hemm who holds all that together, who once is the inward, suffering man, the passionate narrator, and then the crafty entertainer. There are real,
honest love-songs on this album. And there are songs one simply has to love.
The tracks of this album were written during a stay in Italy lasting several months. Maybe it was this new, distanced perspective on usual correlations and
interrelations has contributed to the casual complexity of this debut-album. A debut-album, by the way, that was awarded as the best album of the island state on the occasion of the Icelandic Music Awards. Besides, Benni Hemm Hemm and his band were elected as the best newcomer. In September 2005 the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the Icelandiccapital Reykjavik for a first time.
Now it is re-released on Sound of a Handshake, Morr
Music’s small, curious sister. A new home for an album that will grow with each time one listens to it. Equally as
Benni Hemm Hemm’s band changes with each concert. In
the centre there is Benni with his fervour, a mischievous smile, his acoustic guitar and his arrangements. Around him there are guitars, glockenspiel and the brass section.
Around him there are raging waves and a deep, pure sea. You should listen to this record loudly. And often, but you will find that out by yourself anyway

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Benni Hemm Hemm Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Benni Hemm Hemm:

Aldrei I will never I will never I will never I will never promise…
Beygja Og Beygja Línur, línur sem skera línur, Línur sem eru skornar og samte…
Brekkan Up a steep hill in with wind in our face we two…
Early Morning Rain In the early morning rain with a dollar in my…
Fight I wake up and it's raining outside and it's much too late …
I Can Love You In A Wheelchair Baby I can love you in a wheelchair baby I can love…
i_can love you in a wheelchair baby_ I can love you in a wheelchair baby I can love…
Ku-Ui-Po Ku-Ui-Po I Iove you more today more today than yesterday b…
Riotmand Riotmand, ó riotmand, ca va? Riotmand, ó riotmand, ca va? …

Sex Eða Sjö Sex eða sjö á suðurleið seint um haust á stórum bát sáu…
Stoffer …
Sweaty In The Sunshine Sweaty in the sunshine naked in the water holding hands on…
The Doomed The Damned Deep down here, in the dark a demon lays with a…
Til Eru Fræ Til eru fræ sem fengu þennan dóm að falla í jörð…

Whaling in the North Atlantic We're whaling in the North Atlantic whaling in the North At…

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