Hjaltalín
- Location: Reykjavík,
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- Bio: Hjaltalín are Iceland's newest about-to-be export.
Having been nominated for five of March 2008's Icelandic Music Awards they went on to win Best Songwriter - Högni Egilsson ... (more) - Bio: Hjaltalín are Iceland's newest about-to-be export.
Having been nominated for five of March 2008's Icelandic Music Awards they went on to win Best Songwriter - Högni Egilsson - and The Brightest Hope.
They have been nominated for this year's Time for Peace Music and Film Awards for the song 'The Trees Don't Like the Smoke'.
Their debut album 'Sleepdrunk Seasons', released to great acclaim in Iceland, December 2007, was produced by Benni Hemm Hemm and Gunni Tynes of múm. The album has know also been released in Scandinavian and the UK and will hit the rest of Europe in early 2009.
Hjaltalín newest song, 'Thu komst vid hjartad í mér', topped all the charts in Iceland in 2008 and got nominated for The Icelandic Music Awards. It's a cover of a song by Iceland Disco singer Paul Oscar and translates as 'You Touched My Heart'.
Hjaltalín are currently working on their sophomore album which will be ready this fall.
In Iceland Hjaltalín have played with artist such Jens Lekman, Akron/Family, Danielson, Annuals and Bloc Party and they have also toured with múm and Cold War Kids.
Hjaltalín are from Reykjavik, a band as promising as any of the other beautiful and eclectic artists the country has thrown up. With seven core members, it's difficult to know whether to call them a small orchestra, a mutated and overgrown rock band or something else entirely. Besides the regular guitar, bass and drums, the band also comprises piano, accordion, bassoon, clarinet, cello and a violin, complimenting the exquisite lilt of Högni and Sigga's vocals. This unique group of instrumentalists form an allegiance which already has a very solid fan base amongst both critics and the public on home ground. The rest of the world lies in wait and will surely be theirs in due course...
Nominated for 5 Icelandic Music Awards 2008, incl:
- Rock/Alternative Album of the Year
- Rising Star of the Year *Won
- Song of the Year (Goodbye July/Margt ad ugga)
- Best Songwriting *Won (less)
