With each release, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds goes from strength to strength. Over the years, he has drawn from varied experiences in different genres of music, and as a result he has steered ...

It's as if the pianos were haunted. Somewhere about midway through this Tiny Desk, as Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds performed on his electronic keyboard, two upright pianos were playing lilting ...

With his main title theme for Defending Jacob, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds aimed to establish the “fragility” and “melancholy” of parents caught up in a nightmare. Created by Mark Bomback, and ...

Amid a global pandemic that has put the world to a halt, Islandic composer Olafur Arnalds arrives with some kind of peace, his most ravishing work to date. Arnalds has always been a thoughtful artist ...

Following on from 2018’s sophisticated album, Re:member - composed using a ground-breaking new musical system called Stratus, and featuring two self-playing and semi-generative pianos - Icelandic ...

"The internet can be beautiful sometimes." Those words are on the opening screen for a new video by Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb. A few weeks ago, they were a thousand miles apart and had never met.

On a damp morning in Reykjavík, a hungover Olafur Arnalds is reflecting on one of the many upsides of life as a musician in Iceland. "It's easy to sell a lot of CDs here," he says, "because we all ...

Two years ago Icelandic pianist-composer Olafur Arnalds played with a cellist and a violinist in a packed club in Sydney. The ceiling was low, the oxygen was in short supply and a girl had to be ...

Icelandic composer/producer Ólafur Arnalds and Swedish singer songwriter/producer Loreen have announced their new project SAGES with a double single release, "In The Sound Of Breathing / Opening". The ...

The starkly melodic, often unsettling music of Olafur Arnalds is as integral to Broadchurch as those towering cliffs, or Olivia Colman’s orange jacket. But even before Arnalds was hired to write the ...

Iceland has become known for churning out strange beauty in music, from Sigur Ros to Bjork and producer/composer Olafur Arnalds. Arnalds, who started off his career as a metal drummer, made the ...