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Born To Be Free (Borko Album) . It was released in October 2012.
''Born to Be Free'' is the second full-length album by Icelandic musician Borko Björn Kristjánsson, known professional as Borko, is an Icelandic musician. His debut album '' Celebrating Life'' was released in March 2008 on record labels Morr Music and Kimi Records. Track listing # "Born to Be Free" – 4:28 # "Hold Me Now" – 3:38 # "Abandoned in the Valley of Knives" – 5:41 # "Two Lights" – 5:11 # "Waking Up to Be" – 6:22 # "Bodies" – 5:16 # "The Final Round" – 3:52 # "Yonder" – 5:38 # "Sing to the World" – 7:17 Borko albums 2012 albums {{2010s-indie-rock-album-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borko
Björn Kristjánsson, known professional as Borko, is an Icelandic musician. His debut album '' Celebrating Life'' was released in March 2008 on record labels Morr Music and Kimi Records. Borko and band toured with the Icelandic bands , and Seabear
Seabear is an Icelandic seven-piece indie-folk band from Reykjavík. Although hailing from Iceland, they sing primarily in English. They are signed to the M ...
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Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimi Records
Kimi Records is an Icelandic independent record label and distribution company. History Kimi Records was founded in 2007 by Baldvin Esra Einarsson and his wife out of Akureyri, Iceland. The Kimi Records roster includes mainly Icelandic inde rock acts, but also includes bands belonging to other genres of music and despite its young age, Kimi records have also released non-Icelandic acts. Kimi Records started out as a record company and distributed their own music on their own. The label has also distributed releases by artists such as FM Belfast, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Leaves, Seabear and Stórsveit Nix Noltes. In 2009 Kimi Records started operating a sub-label, Brak Records, for more obscure Icelandic music. In its first year of operation it released one album a month. The same year Kimi Records started operating a more mainstream label, Borgin. Borgin is now in hiatus. Kimi's first release was Hellvars' ''Bat out of Hellvar'' on November 22, 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Of A Handshake
In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the brain. Only acoustic waves that have frequencies lying between about 20 Hz and 20 kHz, the audio frequency range, elicit an auditory percept in humans. In air at atmospheric pressure, these represent sound waves with wavelengths of to . Sound waves above 20 kHz are known as ultrasound and are not audible to humans. Sound waves below 20 Hz are known as infrasound. Different animal species have varying hearing ranges. Acoustics Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gasses, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound, and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an ''acoustician'', while someone working in the field of acoustic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebrating Life
''Celebrating Life'' is the 2008 debut album by Icelandic musician Borko. It was released in March, 2008 on record labels Morr Music and Kimi Records. Participating on the album are also members from fellow Icelandic bands múm and Benni Hemm Hemm. Track listing # "Continental Love" – 5:39 # "Spoonstabber" – 4:03 # "Shoo Ba Ba" – 4:27 # "Sushi Stakeout" – 5:02 # "Dingdong Kingdom" – 4:41 # "Summer Logic" – 5:19 # "Doo Doo Doo" – 5:37 # "Hondo & Borko" – 6:33 Personnel * Borko, Björn Kristjánsson – vocals, synthesizer, electronic organ, electronic keyboard, rhodes piano. piano, vibraphone, glockenspiel * Helgi Svavar Helgason – drums * Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson – bass guitar * Róbert Sturla Reynisson – acoustic/electric baritone guitar. guitar, soprano guitar * Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason – electric guitar, harmonica * Áki Asgeirsson – trumpet * Eirikur Orri Olafsson – trumpet * Númi Þorkell Thomasson – additional drums * Davið ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borko Albums
Björn Kristjánsson, known professional as Borko, is an Icelandic musician. His debut album ''Celebrating Life'' was released in March 2008 on record labels Morr Music and Kimi Records. Borko and band toured with the Icelandic bands , and . Now he is a teacher in Laugalækjarskóli. Discography *'' |
