▲ 8 ▼ Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar — Gling-Gló [1990, jazz] (www.youtube.com) submitted 11 months ago by SlurpingPus@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments The album was recorded during Björk's time in The Sugarcubes. Six or seven of the original fourteen songs are jazz standards, but sung in Icelandic; plus the two live bonus tracks at the end are straightforward covers in English. Björk and the band also looked pretty lively: ‘Luktar Gvendur’ + ‘Brestir Og Brak’ + Interview (Icelandic) Iceland (30-08-1990) ‘Kata Rokkar’ (‘Kata Rocks’) Gling-Gló Live @ Hemmi Gunn Show, Iceland (1990) Live at Stöð 2 (Station 2) (1991)
[+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 11 months ago For a country with population smaller than my hometown which is considered backwater by our standards, it's remarkable that Iceland afaik had pretty good alternative culture: like the whole punk/new-wave scene, with entire festivals. I've also heard it said, perhaps jokingly, that like half of Iceland's population have written a book. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 11 months ago For a country with population smaller than my hometown which is considered backwater by our standards, it's remarkable that Iceland afaik had pretty good alternative culture: like the whole punk/new-wave scene, with entire festivals. I've also heard it said, perhaps jokingly, that like half of Iceland's population have written a book. permalink fedilink source parent