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Iceland Review

2005.09.21

— Music

Iceland Review is a great propaganda tool for Iceland, so great that it wouldn’t be surprising if it was owned by the national tourist board… In this classy magazine, you’ll find many elegant photographs of typical icelandic landscapes and short articles about the icelandic artistic scene and the icelandic way of life… If you’ve been to Iceland before and bought the Review at the Reykjaví­k tourist office or found it at the airport, you won’t forget it, maybe you’ll even subscribe and you will get totally obsessed by Iceland eventually. That’s what happened to me.

I’m a frequent visitor of their website, too, not only for the daily information about Iceland but also for those funny articles written in the “Daily Life” blog section by foreign journalists about the country and what’s happening there. And they’ve just created a new “Multimedia” section which is worth visiting: every Saturday, you can listen to new icelandic music, thanks to a collaboration between Iceland Review and the Reykjaví­k record label/store 12 Tónar. This week’s posting is Stórsveit Nix Noltes’ Eastern European dance tune “Daichovo”, off the band’s album “Orkí­deur Hawai” – “Hawaiian Orchid.” Last week was Flí­s, who “started with traditional jazz, then moved on to more experimental improvised music ranging from drum and bass to ambient, reggae, polka and beyond”.

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