Sigur Rós have announced that they will release their 2002 orchestral piece – ‘Odin’s Raven Magic’ – as an album this December.Based on a piece of medieval literature called ‘Hrafnagaldur Óðins’ – or ‘Odin’s Raven Magic’, if you prefer – the album was created in collaboration with Icelandic musicians Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and Steindór Andersen, while the record also features Icelandic choir Schola Cantorum and Paris-based L’Orchestre Des Laureats Du Conservatoire National.Hilmarsson explains: “‘Hrafnagaldur Óðins’ has lots of interpretation and implications that fire up the imagination.
It’s a very visual poem, with images all about falling down, and a world freezing from north to south. It was an apocalyptic warning.
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