Leading Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds has announced a project whereby he’ll release a brand new track every day this week. He’s done it before, mind, with 2008′s ‘Found Songs’, which was recorded, mixed and released in a studio over seven days.
This time though, Olafur’s so-called ‘Living Room Songs’ series will be entirely performed and filmed in his Reykjavík apartment. All songs (which for the most part he’ll write on the day of release) will become available as free downloads directly after each performance.
Watch Ólafur and his sofa-sized orchestra making yesterday’s inaugural offering, the soft and sweetly melancholic ‘Fyrsta’, below. And you can also download tracks and follow the ‘Living Room Songs’ project here.
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