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Eydis Evensen - KEXP LIVE
1 Deep Under  
2 Dagdraumur  
3 The Northern Sky  
4 Wandering I  
5 Vetur Genginn í Garo  
6 Fyrir Mikael  
7 Wandering II  
8 Circulation  
9 Innsti Kjarni og Tilbrigoi  
10 Naeturdogg  
11 Midnight Moon  
12 Brotin  
13 Bylur  
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Icelandic pianist and post-classical composer EYDÍS EVENSEN has confirmed details of her debut album, BYLUR, which will be released on 23rd April, 2021 by XXIM Records, Sony's new imprint for innovative, post-genre instrumental music. The collection follows the 27-year-old's debut single, ‘Brotin' – the label's first official release, which appeared at the end of January – and features thirteen pieces written throughout her life so far for piano, with additional strings, brass and electronics on a number of tracks. It will be available here as a CD and download, as well as from all streaming platforms.

Described by Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated composer Dustin O'Halloran as "a beautiful debut full of rich and nuanced arrangements", BYLUR,EVENSEN confides, "spans over 20 years of my life. It's all my ups and downs. It's been a long time coming." The album was recorded and produced at Reykjavík's Greenhouse Studios by its co-founder, composer Valgeir Sigurðsson, who was raised in the same small town as EVENSEN and has worked with artists including Björk, Nico Muhly and Ben Frost. It also features a guest appearance from award-winning Icelandic singer GDRN on ‘Midnight Moon', the album's only track with vocals.

EVENSEN,who was recently selected by The Line Of Best Fit as one of their ‘Artists On The Rise 2021',hails from the remote, northern Icelandic town of Blönduós, where, as storms raged outside, she grew up listening to music of all sorts, from Tchaikovsky to Led Zeppelin. Indeed, BYLUR takes its name from the Icelandic word for ‘snowstorm', and the title track is, she says, "quite harsh, but it's also very beautiful, so it takes you through all these different stages of emotion." This is true, too, of the album itself, reflective not only of the impact that nature had upon her as a child but also of the personal turbulence she endured after deciding to leave Iceland. Having been drawn to music from an early age and begun piano studies aged six, she abandoned youthful plans to become a professional pianistand instead moved to London, then New York. "I just didn't want to pursue the typical classical journey," she confesses.

  • The emotion was palpable at Eydis Evensen's 'Old Church' piano concert / WILLAMETTE WEEK
    Posted At: October 30, 2023
    As a child, Eydís Evensen would stare out at the distant mountains as the wind howled around her, pretending to conduct the clouds. In these daydreams, she was a meteorological maestro: controlling the Icelandic stormfronts in the distance, bending the weather and the world to her will like an orchestra. “The weather was intense where I grew up but so inspiring. There was such harshness to our winters, but ...

  • Eydis Evensen at the Triple Door makes The Stranger: One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Week
    Posted At: October 11, 2023
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  • Eydis Evensen - The Light makes 'The Reykjavik Grapevine: New Music Picks'
    Posted At: May 26, 2023
    Icelandic pianist and composer, Eydís Evensen has released her much anticipated second album: ‘The Light’ via XXIM Records.  Following on from her successful 2021 debut ‘Bylur’, which put her firmly on the map as one of neo-classical’s leading artists and which has amassed over 40 million audio streams to date and her subsequent 2022 EP ‘Frost’, ‘The Light’ further expands on this young artist’s scope ...

  • Eydis Evensen's 'Dreaming Of Light' Is endlessly beautiful / CLASH'
    Posted At: May 25, 2023
    Icelandic pianist and composer, Eydís Evensen will release her much anticipated second album ‘The Light’ on 26th May via XXIM Records.  Following on from her successful 2021 debut ‘Bylur’, which put her firmly on the map as one of neo-classical’s leading artists and which has amassed over 40 million audio streams to date and her subsequent 2022 EP ‘Frost’, ‘The Light’ further expands on this young arti...

  • Eydis Evensen is no longer afraid of the dark / THE LINE OF BEST FIT
    Posted At: May 22, 2023
    THE LINE OF BEST FIT's Sophie Walker writes….Icelandic pianist and post-classical composer Eydís Evensen tells Sophie Walker about reckoning with old ghosts and healing her inner child with her second album, The Light.Eydís Evensen was suspended over the earth which had cracked wide open. The Icelandic pianist and composer had felt the tremors, the unmistakable warnings that the landscape’s surface – which ...

  • Eydis Evensen shares 'Anna's Theme' from much anticipated second album: 'The Light' / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: March 26, 2023
    Eydís Evensen will release her much anticipated second album ‘The Light’ on May 26th via XXIM Records/Sony. BroadwayWorld's Michael Major writes….Icelandic pianist and composer, Eydís Evensen will release her much anticipated second album 'The Light' on May 26th via XXIM Records/Sony.Following a weekend in Austin at SXSW including the Iceland Airwaves showcase, Eydís shares the new single & video f...

  • Watch Eydis Evensen live in session at Iceland's Greenhouse Studios / The Line of Best Fit
    Posted At: January 16, 2023
    As a child, Eydís Evensen would stare out at the distant mountains as the wind howled around her, pretending to conduct the clouds. In these daydreams, she was a meteorological maestro: controlling the Icelandic stormfronts in the distance, bending the weather and the world to her will like an orchestra. “The weather was intense where I grew up but so inspiring. There was such harshness to our winters, but ...

  • Eydis Evensen, Namasenda and Anais among over 100 new names for Eurosonic Noorderslag 2023 / The Line Of Best Fit
    Posted At: November 15, 2022
    Music has been a part of Icelandic pianist and post-classical composer Eydís Evensen's life from a very early age. A classically-trained pianist and post-classical composer, Eydís started taking piano lessons at the age of six in her hometown of Blönduós, Iceland and composed her very first piece of music on the instrument – about a storm that was raging outside – when she was seven.After graduating from Re...

  • De-stress and calm down with the top 5 most relaxing piano pieces / BBC Music Magazine
    Posted At: February 1, 2022
    If you're wanting to de-stress and calm down, here are some of the piano repertoire's most relaxing pieces of music – chosen by pianist Tokio MyersTokio Myers WRITES…These piano works have become my refuge – a safe place to retreat to when life gets difficult. I take them with me wherever I go, whether it’s to my local shop or travelling to the other side of the world. Her's the top 5Rachmaninov: Rhapsody o...

  • Eydis Evensen - KEXP LIVE
    Posted At: June 3, 2021

    Music for pianist and post-classical composer, Eydís Evensen has always been a part of life. At Reykjavik's Hamrahlíð College, where she sang in the world-renowned choir run by Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir, ( Björk, Sigur Rós others), her music is inspired by forces of nature such as Philip Glass and Thom Yorke. Her arrangements explore the mournful, melan...
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