Olafur Arnalds

..And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness is the 2010 album by Icelandic artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Ólafur Arnalds. This was released on Arnalds' own label Erased Tapes, which means it was made for the fans.

Olafur Arnalds new album, some kind of peace is his most revealing and vulnerable work to date and features Bonobo, Josin and JFDR. Within, you'll find a self-confessed perfectionist grappling with the messier realities of everyday life: the possibilities of love, of settling down, and how to navigate all of that during a global pandemic (the album was half-written prior to lockdown, and completed at Arnalds' harbour studio in downtown Reykjavik). What's emerged on some kind of peace is a record about letting your guard down, and ultimately what it means to be alive.

Award-winning young Icelandic pop/classical musician Ólafur Arnalds uses a radical new approach to recording the music of Chopin. Arnalds developed an intimate, fragile and often charmingly imperfect sound using old/unusual/altered pianos captured on vintage recording equipment and various mixing techniques to re-enforce feelings of solitude or loneliness, and to create dreamlike ambient soundscapes. Pianist Alice Sara Ott joins and Ólafur has composed new works to link the album together.

Olafur Arnalds' third album, "For Now I Am Winter", is an exemplary suite of Icelandic music, blending American minimalist techniques with European sensibilities. Arnalds is poised to be one of the year’s biggest breakthrough artists. The recording blends contemporary classical with multiple instrumental layers and vocals. It includes the hit singles “Old Skin,” “This Place Was A Shelter” and “Only The Winds”.

When We Are Born is a unique live performance film that explores the themes of rituals, relationships and our inner landscape through music from Ólafur Arnalds' latest album, 'some kind of peace'. Recorded and performed live on location in Iceland in summer 2020 and directed by visionary filmmaker Vincent Moon.

Ólafur Arnalds teams up with Mercury Classics to bring you a unique and evolving audio-visual portrait of his home country of Iceland. Over the course of seven weeks in Ólafur traveled to seven very different locations in Iceland - one per week - to record a series of new compositions. In each location Ólafur collaborated with artists local to the town to create and perform a new song.

Ólafur Arnalds (Icelandic pronunciation is an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop.

Renowned composer Ólafur Arnalds presents the EP A Sunrise Session, a live studio session featuring tracks from Arnalds recent release, Some Kind of Peace.

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary Edition of Olafur Arnalds For Now I Am Winter, the album has been remastered.