Icelandic Multi-Instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds Details Fourth Studio Album, ‘re:member’
Mercury KX will release 're:member' on August 24.
Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and composer Ólafur Arnalds has detailed his fourth studio album, titled re:member.
The 12-track release finds Arnalds working with Stratus, a piece of computer software he programmed over two years in collaboration with Halldór Eldjárn. We’re told that it “transforms the humble piano into a unique new instrument” by using MIDI values triggered by what Arnalds plays on his primary piano to generate different sequences on two player pianos. Arnalds has described it as a way to change up his creative thinking: “You get ideas that you would never get otherwise, just because this inspired those ideas.”
Arnalds shared “re:member,” the album’s title track, back in April.
Tracklisting
01. re:member
02. unfold feat. SOHN
03. saman
04. brot
05. inconsist
06. they sink
07. ypsilon
08. partial
09. momentary
10. undir
11. ekki hugsa
12. nyepi
Mercury KX will release re:member on August 24, with “unfold” ft. Sohn streaming in full below—or here for EU readers due to temporary GDPR restrictions.