Monday, June 29, 2009

On my way...



To get in the mood for my trip, I watched the video Screaming Masterpiece, a survey of Icelandic music in which Barði Jóhannsson, of the band Bang Gang, answers the question: “Why is Icelandic music so special?” For a country whose largest city is about the size of Akron, OH, and where they speak a language shared by no other, it produces an amazing amount of great music. Barði says it’s because “all the bands that are any good know that their music won’t be played on the radio and that they won’t sell more than 200 albums in Iceland, so they make music just as they please.”

1 comment:

  1. carol - i like the fact that you are so open to new things and you expose your "discoveries" to a larger audience. it's wonderful how you share things with the world at large. may your universe continue to evolve and expand.

    best regards,

    jim

    p.s. myron stout: did he exhibit under the name "rober stout" and was he a professor at univ of houston in the seventies?

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