Valtysdottir: Epicycle II
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Label: Sono Luminus
Cat No: SLE70012
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd October 2020
Contents
Works
Safe to LoveAir to Breath
Morphogenesis (with Gyda Valtysdottir)
Evol Lamina
Sigfusdottir, Maria Huld Markan
OctoLiquidity (with Gyda Valtysdottir)
Unfold
Mikros
Artists
Gyda ValtysdottirWorks
Safe to LoveAir to Breath
Morphogenesis (with Gyda Valtysdottir)
Evol Lamina
Sigfusdottir, Maria Huld Markan
OctoLiquidity (with Gyda Valtysdottir)
Unfold
Mikros
Artists
Gyda ValtysdottirAbout
Epicycle II, which was produced by Gyða and mixed with Jónsi, features music written for her, and/or in collaboration with her, by eight of Iceland’s most compelling composers – Ólöf Arnalds, Daníel Bjarnason, Úlfur Hansson, Jónsi, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Kjartan Sveinsson, Skúli Sverrisson, and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. The album is a sequel to her highly acclaimed first solo album from 2017, Epicycle, on which Gyða created personal renditions of written music spanning over 2000 years. An epicycle refers to the geometric model of the solar system by the Ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy, in which a smaller circle’s centre moves around the circumference of a larger circle.
On Epicycle II, Gyða stretches the boundaries of genre even further, selecting composers who all have created their own unique sonic environments. The outcome is an expansive and colourful landscape, varied but connected in profound unity through Gyða’s highly personal touch.
A founding member of the experimental and groundbreaking band múm as a teenager in the late 1990s, Gyða later studied classical cello and improvisation in Reykjavik, St. Petersburg, and Basel. Known for her deeply personal and organic performances, she has worked with a varied group of artists across genres, performed concerts around the world, and composed music for films. She earned a double master’s degree from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel where her main teachers were cellist and composer Thomas Demenga and violist, composer, and improviser Walter Fähndrich.
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