Description:	CD on Erased Tapes
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Neoclassical
	Label:	Erased Tapes
	Price:	£7.99
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

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...according to our Ant on 15 May 2008.

I had a dream the other night that the KLF came round to my house and gave me a top secret mission... They gave me 5 copies of unreleased KLF vinyl all in different sleeves and I had to bury them in time capsules.... That has nothing whatsoever to do with this Olafur Arnalds' 'Variations Of Static' CD I'm just about to bang on...Oooh what we appear to have here is some gentle and tender icelandic modern classical music, strings, piano, electronics all composed by a lad of a mere 21 years of age. Beautiful stuff on erased tapes.Fans of Max Richter take note and get the kleenex at the ready for this tear jerker! It's remarkably mature sounding for someone so young. I reckon he was one of those lads at school that had a full beard in first year. We had a dude like that at school, everyone called him "man dick".

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What their label says...

Only 21 years of age, Ólafur hails from the suburban Icelandic town,Mosfellsbær, just a few kilometres outside Reykjavík. He as immersed himselfcompletely in the world of delicate symphonic compositions in a near weightlessorchestral undertaking. Mixing strings and piano with loops, ambiance,electronics and beats, his music fits into the Erased Tapes catalogue like a pieceof a jigsaw puzzle. Debut album 'Eulogy for Evolution' took the listener on ajourney, representing different periods in life, from birth to death. The firstpressing of the follow-up EP ‘Variations of Static’ sold out on his winter touralready and will now be available in stores. While keeping the classicalfoundations of his debut album, here Arnalds incorporates crackling electronicsand the dead voice of a machine; like vague memories of tradition lost within thedigital age we all live in. It comes with a voucher for a free digital copy of the'Erased Tapes Collection I' compilation to celebrate the label’s 1st anniversary. The 10" is a super limited clear vinyl issue