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| my first CD came out before last Christmas, songs I made myself using mainly old icelandic poems. you see we have our own little Christmas stories about a very old hex, her husband and her sons, they are trolls and she is known to eat little children if they are naughty. her name is Gryla and her husbands name is Leppaludi. their sons have very strange names which I am not going to go into explaining here. gryla was known to come around before Christmas searching for little naughty ones, the print on the front cover shows her chasing three little ones! (painted by Steingrimur Eyfjord a well known painter in Iceland). if Gryla doesn't get any kids she dies, and since every kid in Iceland has been aware of this old troll, they have behaved very good for a long time so she has actually been dead for some time, but if any kid becomes bad again she will surely come around again! I sing about her on the CD and I sing about her sons whom are l3 very naughty guys, they are known for stealing food and they like playing all kind of tricks on humans and animals, like peeking through windows, slamming doors, sucking the milk from the sheep and so on. I also sing about other things that relate to Christmas f.ex. the first song on the CD is about "the star" that led the three wise man to little baby Jesus. the CD contains 11 songs all written by myself to Icelandic poems by known icelandic poets. it was published before Christmas 1997. my second CD is a tribute to spring, where I mostly use poems about the spring, from different icelandic poets. It is called "The Wish". the first song, that is written by me to a poem by a lady that has passed away, she was icelandic but lived since she was five years old in Seattle U.S.A. her name was Jakobina Johnson. "The Wish" is about Aladdin's lamp and a lady whom whished to borrow it for a while so she could wish for a palace for the poor children. that is why the cover of the CD has this terribly happy person with the Aladdin lamp. every second song on the spring CD is to a poem of her's because I totally fell for her love for Iceland which she expresses so well in her poems, it seems to me her real wish was to see the fatherland again, but she never got to see it from the age of five, she died in 1974. I play piano, flute, a little vibraphone and an occasional drum (I also engineer and mix everything myself). on both CDs I got a little help from my friends, Marteinn Bjarnar Thordarson - Drum Eyjolfur Alfredsson - Viola Asgeir Oskarsson - Percussion G.G. Gunn - Harmonica Steingrimur Gudmundsson - Percussion Marion Herrera - Harp Ingimar Bjarnarson - Guitar David Cassidy - Violin Anna Lucy Muscat - Child voice 'Mbemba Bangoura and friends from Kramhusid - Percussion Bjorn Leo Brynjarson - Trumpet | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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