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amiina

Kurr

About Me


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Debut album Kurr out now
Sólrún, María, Edda and Hildur, four Icelandic women in their mid twenties collectively known as amiina first decided they wanted to write music together in 2004. They gathered together every last instrument they could find and piled them into their car. They then filled every available bit of space with food. This, they maintain, was a very, very important part of the process. But it was also very nearly the act that prevented the birth of amiina. Their overloaded car was unable to struggle up the steep mountainous incline to the studio they had chosen, and had a local farmer not towed them to their destination with his tractor amiina might never have come to be.KURR the bands debut album, named after the sound that birds are said to make in Iceland makes it clear that they have not learnt their lesson from this experience. amiina are the kind of band about whom it could be said, almost literally, that they employ pretty much everything but the kitchen sink. And though it's true that they started with individually defined roles as a string quartet this was never going to be how they would set about making a record of their own. In amiina there are no specific assignments: no official bass player, drummer, guitarist or singer. To have a listen to a few of their songs click here or here
Booking
Record labels:
Ever Records (USA, Europe, Japan)
Etch'n'Sketch (Australia and New Zealand)
The Worker's Institute (USA)
Rumraket (Europe)
Smekkleysa (Iceland)
ALBUMS:
Kurr
Ever Records release Kurr worldwide, except for Iceland, Australia & New Zealand.
links to buy Kurr:
UK
sandbag
hmv
amazon
play
USA
amazon
Release for the rest of the world is June 25th.
Etch'n'Sketch will release Kurr in Australia and New Zealand on June 30th.
Ep's & singles:
Seoul
released on The workers institute (USA) & Rumraket (Europe)
Available from at least these webstores:
sandbag
iTunes
eMusic
dotshop
AnimaminA
released on The workers institute (USA) & Speak'n'spell (Australia and New Zealand)
Available from at least these webstores:
sandbag
Scandinavia:
smekkleysa
dotshop
Europe and UK:
sandbag
boomkat
roughtrade
vivo
Japan:
linusrecords
USA:
workersinstitute
forcedexposure
Australia:
redeye
hmv

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/9/2006
Band Website: amiina.com
Band Members: Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarlidadóttir
Sounds Like: Kurr
amiina

Hilli (At The Top Of The World)
a collaboration with Lee Hazlewood and Wyndham Wallace
Video by Nick Abrahams

Record Label: Ever, Worker's Institute, Rumraket, Etch'n'Sketch
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

tónleikar


Posted by amiina on Mon, 12 May 2008 03:02:00 PST

having fun in the rising sun

Hey guys!Just wanted to give you a little update on what's going on in the amiina world these days.We are working on a very exciting film project at the moment, scoring our first movie!! We are also d...
Posted by amiina on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:54:00 PST

amiina, Kippi and friends in Wonderland at the Reykjavík Arts Festival 2008

We are excited to announce that on May 15th and 16th amiina, Kippi kanínus and 10 friends will perform at the Reykjavík Arts Festival.We will recycle older material and put things into a different per...
Posted by amiina on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:03:00 PST

problem with adding friends (SOLVED)

hey guys... if you have asked us to be friends and we haven't added you, could you please contact us and let us know, we are having problems with adding new friends and can't figure it out...EDIT:than...
Posted by amiina on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:30:00 PST

if you still need to get something nice for someone...

...then you could try and go to our little amiinashop on the internet!We've got some warm and cozy hand-knitted slippers, made by the beautiful and temperamental Icelandic sheep, and the good ladies a...
Posted by amiina on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:57:00 PST

Ticket links to all Europe shows

Hey Hey!If you want to buy tickets to our shows in Europe, here is where you go:Portugal Porto Oct 04 2007Casa de MusicaPortugal Lisbon Oct 05 2007Santiago AlquimistaSpain Madrid Oct 06 2007Moby DickS...
Posted by amiina on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:34:00 PST

Iceland Airwaves

In the middle of our European tour we've decided to pop back to Iceland for a show on October 20th, which will be a part of the Iceland airwaves lineup. So, if you're in Iceland it would be nice to se...
Posted by amiina on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:27:00 PST

Europe Tour in October

We will be visiting Europe in October. Come check us out!Oct 04 2007 Porto, PortugalCasa de MusicaOct 05 2007 Lisbon, PortugalSantiago AlquimistaOct 07 2007 Barcelona, SpainLA2Oct 09 2007 Milan, Italy...
Posted by amiina on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:49:00 PST

North American tour postponed

An apology to our fansWe are very sorry to inform you that due to illness within the band, we have had to postpone our North American tour schedule to start in Washington DC next week.We obviously did...
Posted by amiina on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:43:00 PST

amiina.com NEW website

Hi!Check out our new website: www.amiina.com !!!
Posted by amiina on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST