SANITAS OUT MARCH 15th ON Darla Records ... go buy the monster... Out February 22nd on Happy Prince & March 15th on Darla Records TRACKLIST: |
Christmas is coming !!!! Stafrænn Hákon loves christmas and has a treat for you. Just this week Stafrænn covered 2 legendary icelandic christmas songs of the legendary HELGA MÖLLER. The songs feature vocals from Magnús Freyr who also contributes vocals on 2 songs on the new album to be released in february/march 2010. Check out the christmas songs here: Look out for Stafrænnn Hákon EUROPEAN TOUR IN january 2010. dates are here: |
| Stafrænn Hákon now has a digital webshop on the brilliant icelandic GOGOYOKO site. On the site you can shop all Stafrænn Hákon albums in high quality mp3 format (320kbps cbr). Have a look at the site or check other great icelandic musicians over there. A new digital webshop is being build at the moment so look out for a new one with all Stafrænn Hákon & related released material. In other news: Stafrænn will head into studio in July to finish his new album. Again Stafrænn will work with his good friend/collaborator Daniel Lovegrove/ Dialect / Unstatuesque. It will hopefully be released in late 2009 if everything goes by plan. |
| Collaboration with Void´s Anatomy... |
| The collaboration between Stafrænn Hákon and Canadian musician Marie Jorge of Void´s Anatomy is out now on the superb Canadian label CHAT BLANC for only 9USD including postage from their website . From their website: "After the success of his now sold out chat blanc ep in 2006, Stafraenn Hakon is back with a collaborative work with quebec's artist Void's Anatomy for 3 nice tracks being a part of our Echange series. While Olafur is taking care of most of the music, which is usual extra melodic Stafrænn Hakon like, the sweet voice of Marie Jorge a.k.a. Void's Anatomy brings the last touch to make it a perfect ep!!!! Highly recommended!! " Coming in a light brown cardboard printed in 222 copies. |
Hello
currently working on new album which is slowly evolving into something more heavier than before , exciting. So far some vocal collaboration with Minco Eggersman who sang "hausi" from the album "Gummi". I am hoping to have this album released 2009 if everything goes by plan.
In the meantime check out the collaboration with my friend Larus which we call CALDER
This album was released on Make Mine Music a in November 2008 and can be found here.
take care
Olafur / Stafrænn Hakon
AUTUMN / CHRISTMAS
So it´s christmas time and there is no need to be afraid. I´ve therefore posted the christmas songs from previous years here:
CHRISTMAS SONGS
The Calder album is out and available through here:
NORMAN RECORDS
Stafrænn Hákon @ Gogoyoko Digital Shop
The EP collaboration with Void´s Anatomy is out now on CHAT BLANC and should be available through their site. It´s limited to 222 copies.
Long time since last update, but there is actually something to tell!!! First off the collaboration between Stafrænn Hákon and Lárus Sigurðsson entitled Calder will release their second album on the very fine Make Mine Music in late 2008. The album has been in the works for the last 2-3 years or so and we are very pleased and proud of this album. Make Mine Music is a great independent label where artists pay for all their manufacture costs and in return they will retrieve all the sales from the album (which is very very rare), so when buying the album people will be supporting the artist directly. Obviously we are not trying to be the next Metallica but this is a very good platform for a small artists like us. Some great artists are on Make Mine Music such as Yellow 6, Portal, July Skies, Epic 45, Piano Magic, Library Tapes, Millimetrix to name a few.
In other S.Hakon news is that a another EP will be released on Chat Blanc records which put out the "Sprengir ílát" EP in 2006. This new one will be a collaboration with the canadian singer Marie Jorge who plays with Void´s Anatomy. S.Hákon did a remix of the song "Life Sleeps" wich eventually lead to this collaboration. Hopefully this will come out later this year as well. Stay tuned for news.
Otherwise S.Hákon is still working on some new material, some material has been written and hopefully see it´s release date in 2009.
Happy new year. 2007 was a good year... the album Gummi was released and the limited EP Kobbi was as well. S.Hakon did a tour in UK which was nice. Unfortunately the Resonant label have decided to call it a day for now and i would like thank them for the support and their love for the music, they really did help put S.Hakon on the map.
Well it seems like 2008 is going to be a interesting year. First off the side project CALDER which is Ólafur Josephsson and Lárus Sigurðsson are almost ready with a new album and they are very excited about that and hopefully the album will see a release date in 2008. The new CALDER stuff sounds very promising and will definately please those who like mellow classical/electronica/drone ambient stuff. The Myspace page will be updated with some new song on it very soon.
There is no plan so far with another S.Hakon album this year, as i feel the need to do something different, but there are always songs being written and processed. S.Hakon just played a gig in Iceland with Ólafur Arnalds in early january and one new song was played which sounded promising.
There is a new video of the song "Þurr Þurr" from the album "Gummi" made by my friend Aðalsteinn .....Check it out !!!!
It´s christmas time, it´s christmas time. Stafrænn enjoys christmas very much.. somtimes he sings christmas songs... back in 2004 Stafrænn decided to do christmas songs and he also became a father around christmas time in 2004, this year he became a father again in late November and did new updated versions of the songs from 2004 and 2 new ones for hungry christmas songs lovers.... check the flash player (above) for some songs.... or MYSPACE profile..... the 2 new ones are collaborations with Unstatuesque (formerly Dialect) and will up this week.. until then enjoy the 2 old ones..... merry christmas from Stafrænn Hákon
The UK tour is over and we finished our touring with a gig at Iceland Airwaves festival. Thanks to everyone who came to see us, and million thanks to Karl Regler for helping us out sorting things out. And of course thanks to Resonant for arranging the whole dates. I still have some TOUR EP´s left to sell and some T-shirts. If you want to buy one of those then stop by the VogorShop and get one.
I am pleased to announce the Stafrænn Hákon UK tour in October 2007. The 5 piece live band will perform:
| date: | venue: | city: |
| 7th October | THE HOPE | BRIGHTON |
| 9th October | AC30 Club Industry | LONDON |
| 10th October | The Wheatsheaf | OXFORD |
| 11th October | The Star And Shadow Cinema | NEWCASTLE |
| 12th October | Henry´s Cellar Bar | EDINBURGH |
| 13th October | Cube Cinema | BRISTOL |
| 14th October | The Library | LEEDS |
| 20th October | TBC @ AIRWAVES FESTIVAL | REYKJAVIK |
JEFF GOLDBLUM
NO JACKET (possibly a reference to Phil Collins)
IODINE II
S.DURGUR II
DULA
the running time is over 30 minutes of music
AUGUST
Look out for a U.K tour in October. The dates are not sorted out yet, but as soon as they arrive i will announce them here. We are currently putting together a band for this tour and will play Airwaves festival right after.
A very lo-fi homemade video for the song P-rofi is here (shot on my crappy digital camera):
Gummi has arrived to Iceland in 12 Tónar.
JUNE
Gummi is out now on Resonant. Get the album at yr local indie store (you may have to ask them to order !!!) or you can get it thru these links:
Resonant Mailorder shop (recomended)
Normanrecords
Smallfish
Amazon UK
Play.com
Dotshop
Boomkat
Download from ITUNES
GUMMI
VENTILL / POKI
some reviews:
Smallfish record store
Delusions of Adequacy
Boomkat record store
Black And White Magazine
Rjóminn (icelandic)
Album of this week at Jumbo Records
Album of last week at Cielo Liquido
Angryape (english)
Treblezine (english)
Teletext UK
Foxydigitles
Silent Ballet 7/10
World Press Blog
BabySue record store
Soundslike (Flemish)
Soundvenue (Danish)
Diskant (Danish)
Diskant Interview (danish)
Gaffa.dk 4/6 (Danish)
Nordische Musik (german)
Electric Requiem Network (russian)
12 Tónar record store in Copenhagen have now agreed to help with the release of Gummi and are distributing the album within Denmark. The album will be available through local stores from june 4th and of course at the magnificent 12 Tónar store in Fiolstræde.
Stafrænn Hákon has now a band and are practising some live set... hopefully we will play some gigs in Denmark soon...
Some stuff on the playlist:
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Stars Of the Lid - and their refinement of the decline
do make say think - you, you're a history in rust
eluvium - copia
fridge - the sun
dinosaur jr. - beyond
Sebadoh - The Freed Man (remastered reissue)
Burzum - filosofem
amiina - kurr
Yellow 6 - painted sky
Jesu - Conquerer
The Sea and Cake - everybody
port-royal - afraid to dance
Eric Gaffney - Brilliant Concert Numbers
Order "Gummi" exclusively from Resonant here...
Stafrænn Hákon available through ITUNES Store
Stafrænn Hákon is now available through ITUNES USA store.
the albums
í ástandi rjúpunnar
skvettir edik á ref
ventill/poki
are available, but the new album "Gummi" will soon be there.....
"GUMMI" is now out in Asia via Nature Bliss.
Stafrænn Hákon played yesterday an instore gig at 12 Tónar in Copenhagen with a brand new band. 3 songs were played: Iodine, Svefn, Sítrónudurgur and the local TV2 television station in Denmark were there to film part of the 12 Tónar afternoon concert series.
In the Jukebox above you can hear 2 new songs from "Gummi" ..... click the play button to hear Glussi & Svefn
"Gummi" has now a release date in Japan/ASIA which is 7th of march through Nature Bliss. There will be a bonus cd with the ASIA version, featuring 3 fresh songs. These songs will be added to the new Stafrænn Hákon jukebox on this site.
Resonant will release the album in april 2007
JANUARY
i enjoyed some stuff in 2006.... here are few ones.
Helios - Einyga
bonnie prince billy - the letting go
Max Richter - Songs from before
Goldmund - corduroy road
b.fleischmann - the humbucking coil
cocteau twins - lullabies to violaine
sunn o))) - black one
Yo La Tengo - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass
tunng - the comments of inner chorus
isis - in the absence of truth
Mogwai - Zidane soundtrack
Lambchop - Damaged
Neil Young - Living with war
