''Dýrð í dauðaþögn'' is the debut album by the Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir Trausti. The album was recorded in three or four months in the summer of 2012. Most of the original Icelandic lyrics were written by Ásgeir's father. The album reached number thirty-four in Denmark, and number one in Iceland where it has since been awarded triple platinum

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. It became the best selling debut album ever in Iceland. It is also reported to be owned by one in every ten people in Iceland. As well as being nominated for the Best Album of the Year award at the 2012 Nordic Music Prize, the album won the Album of the Year at the 2012 Icelandic Music Awards and it received a Kraumur Award. '' In the Silence'', an English language version of the album, translated by the American musician John Grant, was released online on 28 October 2013, and physically on January 27, 2014. Only the vocal part is different from ''Dýrð í dauðaþögn''.

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians * Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

(all tracks),

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

(all tracks),

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

(all tracks),

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

(tracks 6, 9, 10), keyboards (tracks 1–9),

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10) * Sigurður Guðmundsson – keyboards (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9), piano (track 2), bass guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4), backing vocals (track 3),

harmonium The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ that uses free reeds to generate sound, with air passing over vibrating thin metal strips mounted in a frame. Types include the pressure-based harmonium, the suction reed organ (which employs a va ...

(track 5) * Kristinn Snær Agnarsson –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9),

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

(track 3) * Þorsteinn Einarsson – guitar (tracks 2, 3), backing vocals (tracks 3, 10) * Samúel Jón Samúelsson –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9) * Kjartan Hákonarson –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9) * Óskar Guðjónsson –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

(tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9) * Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson – bass guitar (track 1) * Ingi Björn Ingasson – bass guitar (track 4) ;Recording personnel * Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson – producer, recording, mixing * Sigurður Guðmundsson – recording * Kristinn Snær Agnarsson – recording * Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson – recording ;Other personnel * Svarti Hrinhurinn – cover art * Jónína de la Rosa – photography * Bobby Breiðholt – design

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References

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