Endless Summer / Sóley Stefánsdóttir

Endalaust sumarið blásið inn á tónleikum með Sóleyju Stefánsdóttur og hljómsveit í Mengi laugardagskvöldið 6. maí klukkan 20:30.

Tilefnið er nýjasta plata Sóleyjar en Endless Summer kemur út föstudaginn 5. maí á heimsvísu hjá Morr Music.

Miðaverð: 3000 krónur. Netsala á https://midi.is/concerts/1/10062/Soley

Hljómsveit skipa:

- Sóley Stefánsdóttir: Píanó, söngur

- Albert Finnbogason: Bassi, gítar

- Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir: Píanó, söngur

- Jón Óskar Jónsson: Trommur

- Margrét Arnardóttir: Harmonikka

(Athugið þetta eru ekki útgáfutónleikar - einungis tónleikar og útgáfuhóf)

Nánar:

Nýjasta afurð Sóleyjar Stefánsdóttur Endless Summer, kemur út 5.maí á heimsvísu. Að því tilefni mun Sóley blása til tónleika og útgáfuhófs í Mengi þann 6.maí næstkomandi. Þetta er þriðja breiðskífa Sóleyjar og kveður við nýjan tón á plötunni. Platan er ögn bjartari en fyrri verk Sóleyjar, einsog vongóður vordagur sem bíður spenntur eftir hinu eilífa sumri. Sumrinu sem kemur kannski aldrei.

Eftir tónleikana verður gestum boðið að staldra við og fá sér í glas og kaupa plötu sem verður að öllum líkindum komin til landsins á geisladisk og vínyl.

Tónleikar byrja 20:30 og útgáfuhóf endar kl 23:00

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Sóley invites you to a concert and release party at Mengi on May 6th. Starts at 8:30 pm. Tickets: 3000 isk.

Tickets can be bought online at https://midi.is/concerts/1/10062/Soley

Further:

Sóley's latest offering Endless Summer is the warmth beneath the snow at the end of winter, the seeds waiting to grow as spring whispers to us.

After the show, all guests are invited to stay for a drink, and even grab a cd or vinyl with them on the way out.

- Sóley Stefánsdóttir: Piano, voice

- Albert Finnbogason: Bass, guitar

- Katrín Helga Andrésdóttir: Piano, voice

- Jón Óskar Jónsson: Drums

- Margrét Arnardóttir: Accordeon

Show starts at 8:30 pm and release party ends at 11 pm

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Back with her third solo album, Sóley’s new LP 'Endless Summer' arrives in May 2017 via Morr Music. Written over the period of one year together with her long-time friend and collaborator Albert Finnbogason, the new full-length sees the acclaimed musician from Iceland explore the more optimistic, sun-drenched corners of her songwriting.

Sóley’s latest offering is the warmth beneath the snow at the end of winter, the seeds waiting to grow as spring whispers to us. From the heavy organs, synths, and minor keys of her last album Ask The Deep, 'Endless Summer' emerges with a kind of hopeful sweetness, and feels even more vulnerable, as Sóley climbs with us to incandescence. "The idea for the album came pretty randomly one night in beginning of January 2016 when I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote a note to myself: ‘Write about hope and spring’," she says about the LP’s general direction. "So I painted my studio in yellow and purple, bought a grand piano, sat down and started playing, singing and writing."

And 'Endless Summer' delivers just that, opening with the song "Úa" (named after her young daughter) that washes over us like a hopeful dream. It’s based on an adventurous acoustic arrangement reminiscent of Joanna Newsom or Agnes Obel, which sets the tone for what is to follow in its wake. Throughout the new album, Sóley’s arrangements for a small orchestra give 'Endless Summer' a colorful touch: Take, for example, the track "Never Cry Moon", in which the sound of clarinet, trombone and cello beautifully engulf Sóley’s repetitive piano playing.

Comprised of eight songs, 'Endless Summer' is an album that’s grounded in fertile wisdom. Not just an ethereal dream of love and light, but a subtle, accumulative wisdom, a conscious choice to cling to vitality. One might say that one of Sóley’s signatures is the childlike wonder in her lyrics, and 'Endless Summer' delivers the same wonder, but with a kind of reverence for it, for she’s no longer a wanderer in a nightmare, but an enchanted lover of mystery.

With the album’s title track, "Endless Summer", Sóley soothes the wandering mind in her lyricism, asking: "Did you see the stars?/Did you see the sun come up?/You can find me in the flowers/You can find yourself some peace."

'Endless Summer' is like the Icelandic summer, a liminal, endless turning, a shift of consciousness, an endless awakening of continual brightness not without the acknowledgement of winter; it is the eruption from which the rebirth of light emerges