NEWS 2008
Happy new year. 2007 was a good year... the album Gummi was released and the limited EP Kobbi was as well. S.Hakon did a tour in UK which was nice. Unfortunately the Resonant label have decided to call it a day for now and i would like thank them for the support and their love for the music, they really did help put S.Hakon on the map.
Well it seems like 2008 is going to be a interesting year. First off the side project CALDER which is Ólafur Josephsson and Lárus Sigurðsson are almost ready with a new album and they are very excited about that and hopefully the album will see a release date in 2008. The new CALDER stuff sounds very promising and will definately please those who like mellow classical/electronica/drone ambient stuff. The Myspace page will be updated with some new song on it very soon.
There is no plan so far with another S.Hakon album this year, as i feel the need to do something different, but there are always songs being written and processed. S.Hakon just played a gig in Iceland with Ólafur Arnalds in early january and one new song was played which sounded promising.
There is a new video of the song "Þurr Þurr" from the album "Gummi" made by my friend Aðalsteinn .....Check it out !!!!
It´s christmas time, it´s christmas time. Stafrænn enjoys christmas very much.. somtimes he sings christmas songs... back in 2004 Stafrænn decided to do christmas songs and he also became a father around christmas time in 2004, this year he became a father again in late November and did new updated versions of the songs from 2004 and 2 new ones for hungry christmas songs lovers.... check the flash player (above) for some songs.... or MYSPACE profile..... the 2 new ones are collaborations with Unstatuesque (formerly Dialect) and will up this week.. until then enjoy the 2 old ones..... merry christmas from Stafrænn Hákon
The UK tour is over and we finished our touring with a gig at Iceland Airwaves festival. Thanks to everyone who came to see us, and million thanks to Karl Regler for helping us out sorting things out. And of course thanks to Resonant for arranging the whole dates. I still have some TOUR EP´s left to sell and some T-shirts. If you want to buy one of those then stop by the VogorShop and get one.
I am pleased to announce the Stafrænn Hákon UK tour in October 2007. The 5 piece live band will perform:
| date: | venue: | city: |
| 7th October | THE HOPE | BRIGHTON |
| 9th October | AC30 Club Industry | LONDON |
| 10th October | The Wheatsheaf | OXFORD |
| 11th October | The Star And Shadow Cinema | NEWCASTLE |
| 12th October | Henry´s Cellar Bar | EDINBURGH |
| 13th October | Cube Cinema | BRISTOL |
| 14th October | The Library | LEEDS |
| 20th October | TBC @ AIRWAVES FESTIVAL | REYKJAVIK |
JEFF GOLDBLUM
NO JACKET (possibly a reference to Phil Collins)
IODINE II
S.DURGUR II
DULA
the running time is over 30 minutes of music
Now to refresh your memory on how Stafrænn Hákon sounds live, here is a live version of Eder performed in Birmingham 2004:
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AUGUST
Look out for a U.K tour in October. The dates are not sorted out yet, but as soon as they arrive i will announce them here. We are currently putting together a band for this tour and will play Airwaves festival right after.
A very lo-fi homemade video for the song P-rofi is here (shot on my crappy digital camera):
Gummi has arrived to Iceland in 12 Tónar.
JUNE
Gummi is out now on Resonant. Get the album at yr local indie store (you may have to ask them to order !!!) or you can get it thru these links:
Resonant Mailorder shop (recomended)
Normanrecords
Smallfish
Amazon UK
Play.com
Dotshop
Boomkat
Download from ITUNES
GUMMI
VENTILL / POKI
some reviews:
Smallfish record store
Delusions of Adequacy
Boomkat record store
Black And White Magazine
Rjóminn (icelandic)
Album of this week at Jumbo Records
Album of last week at Cielo Liquido
Angryape (english)
Treblezine (english)
Teletext UK
Foxydigitles
Silent Ballet 7/10
World Press Blog
BabySue record store
Soundslike (Flemish)
Soundvenue (Danish)
Diskant (Danish)
Diskant Interview (danish)
Gaffa.dk 4/6 (Danish)
Nordische Musik (german)
Electric Requiem Network (russian)
12 Tónar record store in Copenhagen have now agreed to help with the release of Gummi and are distributing the album within Denmark. The album will be available through local stores from june 4th and of course at the magnificent 12 Tónar store in Fiolstræde.
Stafrænn Hákon has now a band and are practising some live set... hopefully we will play some gigs in Denmark soon...
Some stuff on the playlist:
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Stars Of the Lid - and their refinement of the decline
do make say think - you, you're a history in rust
eluvium - copia
fridge - the sun
dinosaur jr. - beyond
Sebadoh - The Freed Man (remastered reissue)
Burzum - filosofem
amiina - kurr
Yellow 6 - painted sky
Jesu - Conquerer
The Sea and Cake - everybody
port-royal - afraid to dance
Eric Gaffney - Brilliant Concert Numbers
Order "Gummi" exclusively from Resonant here...
Stafrænn Hákon available through ITUNES Store
Stafrænn Hákon is now available through ITUNES USA store.
the albums
í ástandi rjúpunnar
skvettir edik á ref
ventill/poki
are available, but the new album "Gummi" will soon be there.....
"GUMMI" is now out in Asia via Nature Bliss.
Stafrænn Hákon played yesterday an instore gig at 12 Tónar in Copenhagen with a brand new band. 3 songs were played: Iodine, Svefn, Sítrónudurgur and the local TV2 television station in Denmark were there to film part of the 12 Tónar afternoon concert series.
In the Jukebox above you can hear 2 new songs from "Gummi" ..... click the play button to hear Glussi & Svefn
"Gummi" has now a release date in Japan/ASIA which is 7th of march through Nature Bliss. There will be a bonus cd with the ASIA version, featuring 3 fresh songs. These songs will be added to the new Stafrænn Hákon jukebox on this site.
Resonant will release the album in april 2007
JANUARY
i enjoyed some stuff in 2006.... here are few ones.
Helios - Einyga
bonnie prince billy - the letting go
Max Richter - Songs from before
Goldmund - corduroy road
b.fleischmann - the humbucking coil
cocteau twins - lullabies to violaine
sunn o))) - black one
Yo La Tengo - i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass
tunng - the comments of inner chorus
isis - in the absence of truth
Mogwai - Zidane soundtrack
Lambchop - Damaged
Neil Young - Living with war
