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Kraumur Awards
Kraumur Awards is a music prize, organized by the Kraumur Music Fund, awarded for the best albums being released in Iceland. The nominations for the first Kraumur Awards were announced in November 2008. Nominations and the award-winning albums are chosen by a selected panel of Icelandic music journalist and radio show hosts, with years of experience in playing and writing about Icelandic music. The Kraumur Award usually goes to six albums, while 20 albums are nominated. The panel can add albums to the award category, which led to six albums in the first year and seven albums receiving the Kraumur award in 2013. The Kraumur Awards an annual event with six best albums presented in alphabetical order. Kraumur Awards 2008 The 2008 Kraumur Awards went to: * Agent Fresco for ''Lightbulb Universe'' * FM Belfast for ''How to Make Friends'' * Hugi Guðmundsson for ''Apocrypha'' * Ísafold for ''All Sounds to Silence Come'' * Mammút for ''Karkari'' * Retro Stefson for ''Montaña'' N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraumur
Kraumur Music Fund is an independent Icelandic music fund and operation established by thAurora Charity Foundationin the beginning of 2008 ''"to strengthen Icelandic musical life, primarily by supporting young musicians in performing and presenting their works."'' Among its board of advisers are artists Björk, Mugison, and Kjartan Sveinsson former member of Sigur Rós. KRAUMUR’S ADVISORY BOARD * Árni Matthíasson, journalist * Björk * Elísabet Indra Ragnarsdóttir, radio show host at Iceland National Radio 1 * Guðni Tómasson, chairman of the board of directors, The Iceland Symphony Orchestra * Kjartan Sveinsson, musician * Mugison, musician * Sigtryggur Baldursson, director of Icelandic Music Export (IMX), and a founding member of the Sugarcubes Kraumur runs a small office in Reykjavík, Iceland, from where it works on strengthening the position of young musicians in Iceland through direct grants, professional assistance and various forms of cooperation. Kraumur has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samaris (band)
Samaris is an electronic music group from Iceland which formed in January 2011 and consists of Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir (clarinet), Þórður Kári Steinþórsson (electronics) and Jófríður Ákadóttir (vocals). History After forming in January 2011, Samaris entered and won the 2011 Icelandic Músíktilraunir competition. Steinþórsson also won the Keyboard/Programmer prize. Following this, the group self-released their ''Hljóma Þú'' (2011) EP, which won the band an Icelandic Kraumur award. In August 2011, Samaris took part in Stage Europe Networkevent in The Netherlands which brought together acts from Norway, The Netherlands, Poland, France, Germany and Iceland. In October 2011, Samaris performed at the Iceland Airwaves festival. A further self-released EP, ''Stofnar falla'', followed in 2012 before the group signed with One Little Indian Records. The band performed at the 2012 Iceland Airwaves festival. Samaris's self-titled debut album was released in July 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiina
Amiina (formerly Amína, stylized in lowercase) is an Icelandic band composed of members Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson. In the past they have frequently performed live and in the studio with Sigur Rós. Their music is made with a great number of instruments. It contains elements of minimalistic style, contemporary classical, ambient, and electronic loops. In their performances each member will play many instruments, sometimes moving across the stage, going from one instrument to another mid-song. History The founding members Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (born September 29, 1980), Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir (born August 10, 1977), Hildur Ársælsdóttir (born January 31, 1980) and Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir (born February 3, 1978) performed as a quartet playing classical music when they were studying string instruments at the Reykjavík College of Music in the late 1990s. María and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fréttatíminn
''Fréttatíminn'' ( Icelandic for: ''Newstime'') was an Icelandic newspaper founded in 2010, with the first edition being published on 1 October that year. The newspaper came out every Friday, and had a circulation of approximately 82,000. Around 70,000 copies where distributed in the Reykjavík capital area. ''Fréttatíminn'' was free of charge The English adjective ''free'' is commonly used in one of two meanings: "at no monetary cost" (''gratis'') and "with little or no restriction" (''libre''). This ambiguity of ''free'' can cause issues where the distinction is important, as it .... It went bankrupt in 2017, with its last edition being published on April 7 that year. References External links Official website Defunct newspapers published in Iceland 2010 establishments in Iceland Newspapers established in 2010 Mass media in Reykjavík 2017 disestablishments in Iceland Publications disestablished in 2017 Defunct weekly newspapers Weekly newspapers publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grapevine
''Vitis'' (grapevine) is a genus of 79 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The genus is made up of species predominantly from the Northern Hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, both for direct consumption of the fruit and for fermentation to produce wine. The study and cultivation of grapevines is called viticulture. Most cultivated ''Vitis'' varieties are wind-pollinated with hermaphroditic flowers containing both male and female reproductive structures, while wild species are dieceous. These flowers are grouped in bunches called inflorescences. In many species, such as ''Vitis vinifera'', each successfully pollinated flower becomes a grape berry with the inflorescence turning into a cluster of grapes. While the flowers of the grapevines are usually very small, the berries are often large and brightly colored with sweet flavors that attract birds and other animals to disperse the seeds contained within the berrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjarninn
''Kjarninn'' (which means ''the core'' in Icelandic) is an Icelandic online newspaper founded in August 2013. Previously ''Kjarninn'' was a weekly digital news magazine served via Apple App Store aimed at tablet computer users but PDFs were also available at the website. Since September 2014 ''Kjarninn has been an online-only newspaper. The founders of ''Kjarninn'' originally worked at 365's free newspaper '' Fréttablaðið'', which maintained a virtual monopoly on the market (69% in 2004). In February 2013, Magnús Halldórsson, now a journalist at ''Kjarninn'', criticised businessman and former owner Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson, whose wife Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir is the owner of 365, for trying to influence the editorial independence of ''Fréttablaðið'' in his favour. Shortly after this, Magnús and Þórður left 365 and founded ''Kjarninn''. Since its first publication in August 2013, Kjarninn has made headlines in Iceland for publishing leaked material connected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCP Games
CCP hf., doing business as CCP Games, is an Icelandic video game developer based in Reykjavík. Novator Partners and General Catalyst had previously collectively owned a majority stake in the company, and in September 2018, CCP was acquired by South Korean video game publisher Pearl Abyss for $425 million. CCP Games is best known for developing ''Eve Online'', which was released in 2003 and has since been maintained. History CCP Games was founded in June 1997 by Reynir Harðarson, Þórólfur Beck Kristjónsson and Ívar Kristjánsson for the purpose of making MMORPGs. The name "CCP" is short for "Crowd Control Productions". To finance the initial development of ''Eve Online'', CCP Games developed and published a board game, called ''Hættuspil'' ("''Danger Game''"). The game sold more than 10,000 copies to Iceland's 80,000 households. In April 2000 the company, with Sigurður Arnljótsson as CEO, raised $2.6 million, through a closed offering organised by Kaupthing Bank, fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fréttablaðið
''Fréttablaðið'' ( en, The Newspaper) is a free Icelandic newspaper. It is distributed five days per week. History and profile ''Fréttablaðið'' was established in 2001. It was originally owned primarily by the media group '' 365''. The paper was published six days per week, Monday - Saturday until September 2003 when its frequency was switched to daily. As of 2019 it was published six days per week again, and as of 2020, it was published five days per week. It is entirely funded by advertising. ''Fréttablaðið'' has been described as siding politically with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin) and for favouring Icelandic membership of the European Union. However, some of its editors have sided with the conservative Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), and its former editor-in-chief and regular columnist is Independence Party's former leader and Prime Minister Þorsteinn Pálsson. In the period of 2001–2002 the paper had a circulation of 70,000. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DV (newspaper)
''DV'' (''Dagblaðið Vísir'') is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf. It came into existence as a daily newspaper in 1981 when two formerly independent newspapers, Vísir and Dagblaðið, merged. Early on it was one of the largest newspapers in Iceland and at one point had a 64% readership in Iceland. In the 1990s its readership started to dwindle and in 2003 its publisher was declared bankrupt. It was resurrected a week later by the publisher of Fréttablaðið. In 2006 it was changed from a daily newspaper into a weekly one. Since then it has changed publishers regularly and in 2018 its publisher, DV ehf., went bankrupt. Its assets were bought by a new publisher, . In December 2019, Torg ehf., the owner of Fréttablaðið, agreed to buy Dagblaðið Vísir from Frjáls Fjölmiðlun ehf. The media has changed dramatically since its inception. Today it online only and focuses mainly on sensational crime stories, astrology, and domestic and foreign celebrity ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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