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Amiina

Amiina (formerly Amína) is a string quartet from Reykjavík, Iceland: María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (violin), Hildur Ársælsdóttir (violin), Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir (viola) and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir (cello). The group makes music with a great number of instruments - synth, piano, electric and baroque guitar, celtic harp, harmonium, melodica, celesta, glockenspiel, gideon harp, call bells (also called "office" or "reception" bells), glass harp, kalimba, mandolin, and musical saw played with a bow.

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Kira kira

Kira Kira is a constant enigma- extremely hard to define and almost impossible to anticipate. As a founding member of Icelandic art collective Kitchen Motors, she has been a pivotal figure in contemporary Icelandic music, composing music extensively for theatre, dance and film and creating myriad sound and film installations everywhere from Beijing to New York. Taking a particular interest in blurring the lines between music and visual arts Kira has often appeared in castle towers, gallery spaces or curious hidden places and created lasting images of singing black holes...

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Revolter

There are several bands named Revolter: 1. An industrial metal band from Austria that disbanded after one album, Datamerica, released in 1996. 2. A black metal band from Iceland. 3. A heavy rock quartet from Lancashire.Their music features heavy hard hitting detuned guitars,with melodic vocals and harmonies. 4. Independent artist.

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Helgi Hrafn Jónsson

Reykjavik, Iceland (2005-Present)
It’s hard to spot the one side that epitomizes Helgi Hrafn Jonsson: There’s the lean, blond, loki-type of prankster, that would always be up for a laugh, be the joke on him or someone else. There’s the highly trained trombone-player, having toured and recorded all over europe and the U.S. with a vast array of bands and artists (from Voices of Europe to Sigur Rós), but namely with his own group Beefólk, signed to Wolfgang Muthspiel’s material-records label.

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We Made God

We Made God are the latest Icelandic band to step up to the mark and their debut album delivers soaring, epic, driving rock of the highest calibre. The fourpiece are early 20-something’s Maggi (vocals, guitars), Arnór (guitars), Stuni (bass) and Biggi (drums). From the gentle introspection to brutal noise of album opener Gizmo to the pyschedlic riffing of the Deftones-esque “Bathwater” and the gentle floating guitars of “The Color”, “As We Sleep” was entirely produced by We Made God and shows a band at the height of their powers.

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Steed Lord

On the 8th day of february in 2006 Steed Lord was born in New Crack City. It was the day that Kali received a house beat from Demo as a birthday present.
That beat turned into the first song "You" and a week later "Dirty Mutha" was born 3am on a dark and sleepless night. Since then M.E.G.A, Kali, Demo & AC Bananas have been making music together as Steed Lord out of pure passion. Together they manage to create banging club music with boomin beats, killer melodies, heavy vocoding & epic synthesizing. Something that they can only describe as

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Cortes

Official sites: www.cortes.is
www.myspace.com/officialcortes In 1999, Cortes won the lead role of Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West End. It was in this role that he discovered his ability to sing high notes. "I'd been having a bad evening and I was miserable, felt I wasn't even good enough to be in the chorus. Then in my next scene I went up to the C sharp and it just stayed there.

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Stafrænn Hákon

Biography 2010: Catchy melodies and euphoric compositions constitute Stafrænn Hákon´s sixth album, Sanitas. The songs are yet intense and powerful and an adventurous continuation of Stafrænn Hákon´s last release, Gummi that Gaz – eta described as a wild ride the band again took the listener on. Stafrænn Hákon has through the last years been described as a mix of post-rock, lo-fi, ambient guitar & electronica which still holds true to some extent though he with each album takes a giant leap and keeps growing as a musician.

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Leoncie

LEONCIE IS AN INDIAN BORN MUSICAL GENIUS!
AND LEONCIE IS ICELANDS TOP SECRET WHICH IS OUT NOW IN THE UK. SHE HAS STUDIED WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC FROM THE TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC LONDON AND SHE COMPOSES, ARRANGES, PRODUCES AND PERFORMS ALL HER OWN MATERIAL. SHE HAS LIVED IN DENMARK, INDIA, ICELAND,AMONG OTHER COUNTRIES, AND SPEAKS IN MANY LANGUAGES AND COMPOSES FUNNY LYRICS IN MANY OF THEM. SO,HERE'S TO LEONCIE! THE BEST ARTIST FROM ICELAND, AND ICELANDS HOTTEST TOP GOVERNMENT SECRET.. A brand new very exciting cd WILD AMERICAN SHERIFF is now available for all Leoncie Fans at

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