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Hildur Gudnadottir is an Icelandic cellist whose 2009 album
'Without Sinking' I listened to and shared a few inadequate
thoughts about in this forum last year. It was a revelation.
'Mount A' was in fact Ms Gudnadottir's debut, realeased in 2006
and reissued (presumably in the wake of 'Without Sinking') in 2010.
It is a mournful yet magical achievement. Ms G plays all the
instruments on the album. The eleven pieces are sonic tapestries
built up with layer upon layer of cello lines until a dense but
luminous effect is achieved. Sometimes warm; sometimes icy cold.
Opening track 'Light' is a fine example of her ability to conjure
vivid atmospheres from the simplest building blocks of sound. Here
one could imagine oneself lost in the swirling mists of a lonely moor.
The title belies the inherant sense of brooding, suffocating loneliness.
Listening to the circular drone of 'Shadowed' one feels the frost
creeping into our very blood and bones. A single sustained and
uncompromising idea played out like a peal of mournful funerary bells.
The inclusion of a somewhat de-tuned zither on 'Self' is another
unsettling invention. Water music from a deep subterranean cavern.
Final track 'You' is an extended ten minute composition which
brought to mind Brian Eno's 2003 collaboration with Laraaji :
'Ambient 3 : Day Of Radiance'. A hypnotic, meditative piece
which, despite its absence of dymamic variation and melodic
progression, is captivating in its stark, Nordic intensity.
I am glad I took a step backwards to hear this unpolished gem of an album.
Ms Gudnadottir's austere musical world is one well worth getting to know.
Highly Recommended.
'Without Sinking' I listened to and shared a few inadequate
thoughts about in this forum last year. It was a revelation.
'Mount A' was in fact Ms Gudnadottir's debut, realeased in 2006
and reissued (presumably in the wake of 'Without Sinking') in 2010.
It is a mournful yet magical achievement. Ms G plays all the
instruments on the album. The eleven pieces are sonic tapestries
built up with layer upon layer of cello lines until a dense but
luminous effect is achieved. Sometimes warm; sometimes icy cold.
Opening track 'Light' is a fine example of her ability to conjure
vivid atmospheres from the simplest building blocks of sound. Here
one could imagine oneself lost in the swirling mists of a lonely moor.
The title belies the inherant sense of brooding, suffocating loneliness.
Listening to the circular drone of 'Shadowed' one feels the frost
creeping into our very blood and bones. A single sustained and
uncompromising idea played out like a peal of mournful funerary bells.
The inclusion of a somewhat de-tuned zither on 'Self' is another
unsettling invention. Water music from a deep subterranean cavern.
Final track 'You' is an extended ten minute composition which
brought to mind Brian Eno's 2003 collaboration with Laraaji :
'Ambient 3 : Day Of Radiance'. A hypnotic, meditative piece
which, despite its absence of dymamic variation and melodic
progression, is captivating in its stark, Nordic intensity.
I am glad I took a step backwards to hear this unpolished gem of an album.
Ms Gudnadottir's austere musical world is one well worth getting to know.
Highly Recommended.
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