Olafur Arnalds On World Cafe — npr.org

World Cafe's Sense of Place: Iceland guest today is a busy man. Composer and musician Ólafur Arnalds creates beautiful, sweeping neoclassical music, perfect for the soundtracks that have won him high praise. He's been in especially high demand since winning a BAFTA award for his musical contributions to the British TV series Broadchurch. Arnalds joins the show with his band at the studios of Iceland's Rás 2 radio station to play a set in front of a group of World Cafe Travel Adventurers. His latest album, For Now I Am Winter, was recorded with a string ensemble; it also marks the first time his largely instrumental works have featured vocals. It's a marked contrast to his past projects, Found Songs and Living Room Songs, which relied heavily on keyboards and were recorded and released quickly.

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