Valgeir Sigurðsson - Architecture Of Loss flac album

Architecture of Loss by Valgeir Sigurðsson, released 24 September 2012 1. Guard Down 2. The Crumbling 3. World Without Ground 4. Between Monuments 5. Guardian at the Door 6. Erased Duet 7. Reverse Erased 8. Big Reveal 9. Plainsong 10. Gone Not Forgotten 1. Gone Not Forgotten The parameters of musical possibility are vast on Valgeir Sigurðsson’s third LP; Architecture of Loss.

Valgeir Sigurðsson (born 1971) is an Icelandic record producer, mixer, composer, engineer and musician. Coming from a musical background Valgeir's fascination with recording technology led to a job in a small recording studio at the age of 16. He plays keyboards, bass, percussion, ing and studied classical guitar, graduating with a Tonmeister degree from London's SAE Institute

The third album by Icelandic composer, Björk producer, and Bedroom Community founder Valgeir Sigurðsson is a score for a Stephen Petronio ballet that pits emotive chamber music (including piano from Nico Muhly) against furtive electronic frequencies. Architecture of Loss pits gravely emotive chamber music against furtive electronic frequencies. Drawing from the ballet's concepts of loss and forgetting, it's like something sneaky by Anton Webern and something subliminal from Touch Music playing in synch: bold, yearning themes often break free, but feelings of occlusion and indeterminacy linger.

Architecture Of Loss. With an album title like that, Valgeir Sigurðsson immediately paints a picture of raw heartache, cold distress and practiced grief. The acoustic instrumentation is incredibly personal, intimate and close. The scratching strings, the rasping percussion, the moaning electronics – all make up an arsenal of hand-picked medium carefully selected for the score. Sigurðsson first came on the scene in 2007, with his solo debut, Ekvílibríum. Two years later, he composed his first film soundtrack, Draumalandið. And now, on Architecture Of Loss, which was ‘reconceived’ for its album form, Sigurðsson’s sound is even more mature, reflective and measured. And tracks like ‘Gone Not Forgotten’ are all encompassing in awe.

Artist: Valgeir Sigurðsson Album: Architecture Of Loss Year: 2012 Country: Iceland Style: Modern Classical, Ambient. Valgeir Sigurðsson - Dissonance (2017). Empusae - Error 404: Metaphorical Loss (2005). Synthpop, Futurepop, Electropop, Minimal Wave, Minimal Synth, Synthwave. Gothic, Darkwave, Gothic Synth, Ethereal. Ambient, Dark Ambient.

On ‘Architecture of Loss,’ Valgeir Sigurðsson pares down musical selections originally written for Stephen Petronio’s ballet of the same name. The resulting album is a dark, brooding soundtrack somewhere between chamber music and ambient noise. Parts of the album envelop the listener in a wash of nearly sub-audible tones, bitter metallic percussive effects, and high, glitch-y electronic rustlings. Other tracks are glacial and ghostly. Architecture Of Loss’ is an album of tiny, careful movements between long periods of stillness, on the edge of existence

Album · 2012 · 10 Songs. Architecture of Loss Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Guard Down" begins as a long, slow buildup of nervous strings and tones rises, but "The Crumbling" is where it all really kicks in. Besides being beautifully titled, the slips of strings suddenly cut in along with fried electronic tones, as a piano softly maintains a direct melody/rhythm that shifts to a sweeter but.