The Hamrahlíð Choir dirigé par la cheffe Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir et présent lors des représentations de Cornucopia, sort un album Come and be Joyful à paraître le 4 décembre.
Comprenant à la fois des chansons traditionnelles et deux reprises de Björk, Cosmogony et Sonnets, basés sur ses arrangements.
Björk elle-même était membre de ce chœur pendant son adolescence. Fan de longue date, elle les a d’abord invités sur l’album Utopia, puis sur la tournée Cornupocia regroupant 52 choristes.
1.Ísland, farsælda frón (Iceland, Beloved Country)
2. Komdu nú að kveðast á (Make Verses, Maestro)
3. Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu (Vatnsenda-Rósa’s Verses)
4. Stóðum tvö í túni (We Stood in the Meadow)
5. Blástjarnan þó skarti skær (The Blue and Brightly Shining Star)
6. Veröld fláa sýnir sig (The Deceptive World)
7. Haldiðún Gróa hafi skó (Dance Song)
8. Sonnets (Björk Cover)
9. Cosmogony (Björk Cover)
10. Haustvísur til Máríu (Autumn Verses to the Virgin Mary)
11. Maríukvæði (A Mary Poem)
12. Vikivaki (The Lover in the Red Forest)
13. Í gleðinni (Come and Be Joyful)
14. Smávinir fagrir (Fair Little Friends)
i was myself in this choir when i was 16 and i think every single icelandic musician you have ever heard of was brought up and musically baptised by this miraculous woman . þorgerður is a legend in iceland and has guarded optimism and the light in the tumultuous times that teenagedom is . she has also encouraged and commissioned dozens of choir music from all of icelands most prominant composers for half a century or so
björk
L’album est en précommande chez OLI.
