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Home Actor Ólafur Arnalds HD Photos and Wallpapers November 2023 Ólafur Arnalds Instagram - A look back at our 2019 @opiacommunity festival in London - I’m so, so happy we finally get to experience this amazing buzz of creativity and collaboration in person again in only a few days!

Ólafur Arnalds Instagram – A look back at our 2019 @opiacommunity festival in London – I’m so, so happy we finally get to experience this amazing buzz of creativity and collaboration in person again in only a few days!

Ólafur Arnalds Instagram - A look back at our 2019 @opiacommunity festival in London - I’m so, so happy we finally get to experience this amazing buzz of creativity and collaboration in person again in only a few days!

Ólafur Arnalds Instagram – A look back at our 2019 @opiacommunity festival in London – I’m so, so happy we finally get to experience this amazing buzz of creativity and collaboration in person again in only a few days! | Posted on 14/Oct/2023 18:41:51

Ólafur Arnalds Instagram – @opiacommunity has officially launched! It was such an amazing feeling to see everyone get together last night in celebration of this wonderful community. Being on stage and seeing it fill up one by one by some of my best friends and favourite humans was an amazing experience I will never forget. The warmth and the inspiration I received from all this amazing talent felt like being at home or in the studio, but still somehow being watched by a 1000 people – which is exactly what I want OPIA to be! A huge thanks to OPIA team @arnithorarnason, @hildurmaral, @379grad, @ralfdiemert, Leo & @braceproductions for their hard work in putting this evening together ❤️
Ólafur Arnalds Instagram – Whispering House is a very special track on my album which I had the pleasure to create and compose with a very special artist and human being – @olafurarnalds. Last year, during my stay in Iceland for another project I bumped into Óli in a local restaurant and we planned to meet the next evening to listen to some of my new tracks. Some time earlier I asked him if he would like to join me on one of my songs but we hadn’t really planned when and how to do it. A coincident encounter in Reykjavik was a good excuse to move it ahead. I came the next day to Ólafur’s studio and we listened to one of the tracks. He said “Hania, this sounds great already. Why don’t we make something from scratch? I would rather create something with you then add a line on top”. I was very surprised because I would never dare to ask for such a profound contribution – I suspected that this might be too much for Óli, regarding his tight schedule but apparently I was wrong. I said “Alright, I will be back in 2 weeks”. We met again in late October and spent the whole day simply improvising and jamming with each other. It felt just so good, natural and fun. We both felt easy and happy and simply enjoyed every second of creating something in such a genuine and free way. I was acting cool but inside my heart was racing like crazy – it felt unreal. We came up with a couple of ideas but it was the last song that really felt right and fresh. The main motif was intonated by Ólafur on his famous Korg synthesizer and we loved the ambiguous and quiet character of it so much that we basically started to improvise on both of the pianos simultaneously – me on the small pianola and Ólafur on the Kawai upright. Instead of staying at the keyboard for the whole time I decided to record my vocals on top which we cut and looped later on. The whispery vocals melted gently into the soft sounds of Korg and Juno, tangled with celestial passages of tiny pianola and warm chords played on his Kawai. I adored the result and felt that we managed to come up with something new for both of us which made me really excited.

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