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CULTURE CLUB 02 05 GRAY MATTER CITY STATE Ólafur Jóhannesson Entertainment One Released in October 2011, City State (Borgríki) by director Ólafur Jóhannesson features a star league of artists, the most famous of whom are British actors Jonathan Pryce and Philip Jackson, appearing in supporting roles. Icelandic gangster Gunnar (Ingvar E. Sigurðsson) must fight off competition from Serbian mechanic-turned-criminal Sergej (Zlatko Krickic), backed by the Balkan mafia. Gunnar, however, has the Icelandic police on his side; officer Margeir (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) likes to call in favors at Gunnar’s brothel. Meanwhile, detective Andrea (Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir) starts a personal vendetta after the gangsters attack her lover. The focus shifts between all four main characters and viewers discover that there is nothing black and white about their stories. All are capable of doing both good and bad. ESA 03 04 THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM RETRO STEFSON Retro Stefson Vertigo Berlin/Universal Music Known for their upbeat alternative music with afro-pop influences, Retro Stefson is a seven-piece band of friends who started playing together back in 2006. They have a fun and adventurous approach to music that’s really infectious and sort of makes you want to skip work and dance on the sidewalk. Their anticipated third album, also called Retro Stefson, came out in October. Overall, it has an electronic feel and on some tracks, like ‘Qween’ and ‘Time,’ there are these 80s elements. Then there are slower tracks, like ‘Solaris,’ but if you want something unmistakably Retro Stefson, play ‘Glow’ and ‘She Said.’ The album was nominated for this year’s Nordic Music Prize and earned the band six nominations at the Icelandic Music Awards. NÁ TWIN SOUND TWOSOMENESS Pascal Pinon Morr Music Named after the Two-Headed Mexican (1889-1929), Pascal Pinon is a duo comprised of twin sisters Jófríður and Ásthildur Ákadóttir, who recently released their second album Twosomeness. The sound in the 12 intimate songs is unified, a kind of twosomeness which is hard to describe. When listening to it you find yourself in a realm where everything seems to fall into place. My favorite track is ‘Þerney (one thing),’ where they sing: “I don’t need anything; I just make something beautiful.” PS BYE-BYE GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP I REMEMBER YOU Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Hodder & Stoughton In I Remember You (Ég man þig; 2010), Icelandic crime author Yrsa Sigurðardóttir throws logical explanations out the window and gives free rein to fantasy. A young couple and their recently-widowed friend go to an abandoned village in the remote West Fjords to renovate a house in the dead of winter. Soon, strange and scary things start to happen, and to their horror, they cannot leave the village. Meanwhile, a psychiatrist, who has recently moved to the region to escape haunting memories of a son who disappeared and a mentally-disturbed ex-wife, discovers links between vandalism at a local kindergarten and old unsolved cases. According to The Independent, Yrsa’s writing is equal to that of horror master Stephen King in creating a hair-raising atmosphere. ESA 8 ICELAND REVIEW
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