Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition) (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (10th Anniversary Edition) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:19 minutes | 772 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury KX

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Edition of Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter, the album has been remastered.

Icelander Ólafur Arnalds has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most brilliant and accomplished young composers over the course of a few years. He is an artist who combines a neo-classical style with a variety of influences ranging from electronica to minimalism.

Since Arnalds made his debut in 2007 with “Eulogy For Evolution”, the 26-year-old has realised a number of very different projects under his own name. These range from his own musical releases to soundtracks for highly successful Hollywood productions (“Looper”, “The Hunger Games”) and ballet music (“Dyad 1909”). On tours through Europe, North America and China, Arnalds has also presented his music very impressively in concerts and gained a large fan base within a very short time.

With “For Now I Am Winter”, Olafur Arnalds now presents his third studio album. His musical ideas here are poppier than ever before and in Arnór Dan Arnarson, the lead singer of the band Agent Fresco, Anrnalds has found a musical partner who fits in wonderfully with his extravagant compositions, creating lyrical, electronic pop anthems.

Ólafur Arnalds is regarded as the most promising talent on the scene around the protagonists Max Richter, Hauschka and Ludovico Einaudi, in which a musical language with diverse dialects is emerging that brings together traditions such as minimal music, classical music, post-rock and experimental computer music. With his music characterised by fragility, a subtle sense of sound and melancholic beauty, the 26-year-old multi-instrumentalist is gaining a steadily growing fan base worldwide. The key elements of the Icelandic composer’s chamber music works are the piano, gentle string accompaniment and electronic sounds from the notebook. Arnalds combines influences from classical music, a strong affinity for film music and a specifically Scandinavian pop sensibility to create multi-layered and moving listening experiences.

With his new album “For Now I Am Winter”, Ólafur Arnalds has taken the plunge from bedroom producer to composer for the orchestral format. For the first time, he is releasing an album not on the small London label Erased Tapes Records, but on Universal subsidiary Mercury Classics. Arnalds is also breaking new ground with regard to the music, whose usual intimate framework is exploded on “For Now I Am Winter”. With the help of his composer friend Nico Muhly, Arnalds arranged his new works for a large orchestra. And for the first time, he presents pieces with vocals on the album. Ólafur Arnalds says of his most ambitious work to date: “It’s an album that’s very different from what I’ve done before. But there’s no need for my fans to worry, because it’s unmistakable that it’s still me.”

Tracklist:
1-1. Ólafur Arnalds – Sudden Throw (Remastered 2023) (03:17)
1-2. Ólafur Arnalds – Brim (Remastered 2023) (04:42)
1-3. Ólafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter (Remastered 2023) (05:05)
1-4. Ólafur Arnalds – A Stutter (Remastered 2023) (05:09)
1-5. Ólafur Arnalds – Words Of Amber (Remastered 2023) (03:22)
1-6. Ólafur Arnalds – Reclaim (Remastered 2023) (04:01)
1-7. Ólafur Arnalds – Hands, Be Still (Remastered 2023) (03:39)
1-8. Ólafur Arnalds – Only The Winds (Remastered 2023) (05:21)
1-9. Ólafur Arnalds – Old Skin (Remastered 2023) (04:08)
1-10. Ólafur Arnalds – We (Too) Shall Rest (Remastered 2023) (02:06)
1-11. Ólafur Arnalds – This Place Was A Shelter (Remastered 2023) (03:50)
1-12. Ólafur Arnalds – Carry Me Anew (Remastered 2023) (03:34)

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