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Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson&rsquo;s album Nowhere Sessions is a deeply personal work that captures a rare moment of stillness. &nbsp;&nbsp;
The work was recorded in a secluded cabin in the Icelandic countryside, a place surrounded by vast landscapes and near-total silence that has belonged to his family for decades. Far removed from studios and cities, the cabin stands &ldquo;somewhere in the nowhere&rdquo; of Iceland. For Hallgr&iacute;msson, it is not only a retreat but a place of memory and continuity. Choosing to record there was both a creative and emotional decision. The isolation shaped the session profoundly, allowing space, silence, and breath to become part of the recordings themselves. &nbsp;&nbsp;
The album was filmed and recorded with close friends, emphasizing trust, intimacy, and shared presence over technical perfection. Hallgr&iacute;msson performs his own piano parts, accompanied by subtle, carefully arranged strings. In one track, he also lends his voice &mdash; used sparingly, almost as another instrument &mdash; adding a fragile human layer to the soundscape. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Known for his quiet and introspective style, Hallgr&iacute;msson&rsquo;s music unfolds slowly. The compositions are melancholic but never heavy, restrained yet deeply expressive. &ldquo;The Nowhere Sessions are raw, honest, intimate, and calm. My hope is that through them the listener can experience at least some of the calm this place gives me,&rdquo; says Hallgr&iacute;msson. &nbsp;
The album is released digitally.&nbsp;

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Snorri Hallgrímsson – Deutsche Grammophon  Announces New Project: Nowhere Sessions

The multi-award winning Icelandic composer and producer presents
both re-arranged and newly composed thoughtful and intimate tracks
&ldquo;Hallgr&iacute;msson has an innate understanding of using space and quiet to make a point&rdquo; Higher Plain Music
Nowhere Sessions is released on 8th of May 2026
First IG &ldquo;The Stars Will Dim&rdquo; will be released on 6th March 2026
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Icelandic composer Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson will release his new album Nowhere Sessions via Deutsche Grammophon on the 8th of May 2026, a deeply personal work recorded in a secluded cabin in the Icelandic countryside &mdash; a place that has belonged to his family for decades. Surrounded by vast landscapes and near-total silence, the album captures a rare moment of stillness, marking the first time the artist has ever recorded music in this meaningful location.
Far removed from studios and cities, the cabin stands &ldquo;somewhere in the nowhere&rdquo; of Iceland. For Hallgr&iacute;msson, it is not only a retreat but a place of memory and continuity. Choosing to record there was both a creative and emotional decision. The isolation shaped the session profoundly, allowing space, silence, and breath to become part of the recordings themselves.
&ldquo;This cabin is my favourite place in the world. It&rsquo;s been in my family for over half a century and I&rsquo;ve been going there all my life. A few years ago I made an album named after the area called &ldquo;Landbrot&rdquo;, which when translated literally means land fracture &ndash; but it can also mean an oasis. Which I find very appropriate as the cabin stands on the edge of a lava field, on top of a grassy hill overlooking two lakes. And this place is like a mental oasis to me: a reset button.&rdquo;
The album was filmed and recorded with close friends, emphasizing trust, intimacy, and shared presence over technical perfection. Hallgr&iacute;msson performs his own piano parts, accompanied by subtle, carefully arranged strings. In one track, he also lends his voice &mdash; used sparingly, almost as another instrument &mdash; adding a fragile human layer to the soundscape. The artwork has been painted by the Icelandic artist El&iacute;n El&iacute;sabet, a close friend of the composer.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never recorded music there until now. The cabin and its surroundings are almost sacred to me, so it was important to me to play and record with people I know, love and feel comfortable around. To record my music live, with these human beings, in this place, was such a beautiful experience.&ldquo;
Known for his quiet and introspective style, Hallgr&iacute;msson&rsquo;s music unfolds slowly. The compositions are melancholic but never heavy, restrained yet deeply expressive. Notes linger. Pauses matter. The silence between sounds is as important as the sounds themselves.
&ldquo;The Nowhere Sessions are raw, honest, intimate, and calm. My hope is that through them the listener can experience at least some of the calm this place gives me.&rdquo;
The album will contain 9 tracks, including both re-arrangements and new compositions, and will be released on 8th of May 2026 via Deutsche Grammophon.
One of music&rsquo;s best-kept secrets, whilst his music is streamed more than 3m times a month, solo artist, film composer and producer Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson grew up in a strong Icelandic choral tradition, beginning his career as a classical guitarist before falling in love with film music in his teens and going on to study composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and at Berklee College of Music. In his music, Snorri is able to find ways to balance emotion without invoking overdramatic exuberance. His string arrangements, informed by his early and continued involvement in choral singing, are deeply atmospheric.
His debut solo album, Orbit, was released in 2018, two years after he returned to Iceland having lived away in Spain and Mexico and traces the journey of living in different environments, whilst characterized by Icelandic melancholy and electronic undercurrents. The double EP Landbrot I and Landbrot II: an introspective and personal collection of instrumental pieces for piano and strings, was released in 2020-2021. Snorri&rsquo;s 2nd full length album, I Am Weary, Don&rsquo;t Let Me Rest was released in June 2023 and went on to receive 3 nominations at the Icelandic Music Awards - winning 1 award for Production of the Year.
In 2024, Snorri signed with Deutsche Grammophon. His debut release with the renowned label being the EP Longer shadows, softer stones. His 2nd EP via the yellow label The Importance of Birds followed 2025.
Snorri collaborated with &Oacute;lafur Arnalds on the BAFTA award winning score for Broadchurch. His impressive growing list of individual film credits include; Jaula/The Chalk Line (released in 2022, the #2 most watched film globally (non-English language) on Netflix, for 4 weeks running) and the documentary feature Innocence (launched at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and for which Snorri won Best OST at the 2025 Icelandic Music Awards). Released in cinema&rsquo;s worldwide in May 2025, his most recent score was for Words of War, directed by James Strong (Broadchurch) and produced and distributed by Sean Penn&rsquo;s production company.

Snorri Hallgrímsson Announces New EP: The Importance of Birds

The multi-awarded Icelandic composer and producer presents&nbsp;seven brand-new thoughtful and intimate tracks
&ldquo;Hallgr&iacute;msson has an innate understanding of using space and quiet to make a point&rdquo; Higher Plain Music
The Importance of Birds comes out on 12 September 2025
First single &ldquo;Nowhere Again, Kinder&rdquo; will be released on 30 May 2025
Deutsche Grammophon&nbsp;is delighted to announce the release of&nbsp;The Importance of Birds, the new inspiring project from Icelandic composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist&nbsp;Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson. This new EP is his second release at the Yellow Label after&nbsp;Longer Shadows, Softer Stones.&nbsp;
Hallgr&iacute;msson has written and produced seven original tracks for an EP that is an observation and reflection on the fragility and finiteness of life and the relationships with those closest to us and how they are ever changing and growing as time marches on.
As Hallgr&iacute;msson recalls in his liner notes&nbsp;&ldquo;'I don&rsquo;t see any noteworthy birds across the lake,' my father said. I knew exactly what he meant and then immediately felt guilty towards the poor mallards and gulls we didn&rsquo;t deem noteworthy enough. We were birdwatching at the same spot he&rsquo;d taken me to so many times as a kid. Only this time I was the one driving.&rdquo;
This encapsulates the EP perfectly &ndash; on the surface taking pleasure in nature and shared interests with loved ones, but at the same time reflecting on how and why certain events, memories and relationships shape us as people as we move through life.
With his new EP the Icelandic composer creates a soundworld of subtle beauty, consisting of poignant but uplifting solo piano lines, at times underpinned by warm, gently shifting string arrangements and/or layers of electronica that ebb and flow, bearing us ever further along a winding musical path.
Snorri adds:&nbsp;&ldquo;The first piece of music specifically written for this EP was &lsquo;Burning Little, Long and Slow&rsquo;. I&rsquo;d had a particularly rough day. My Mother tells me that when I was upset as a child, I&rsquo;d go to my room, close the door, and start playing the guitar. This time, it was the piano: an overly dramatic opening chord, followed by a cascading, snowballing melody appeared without a thought. You can hear hints of that same melody elsewhere on the EP.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Hallgr&iacute;msson is joined by string players from Iceland, plus the Budapest Art Orchestra conducted by P&eacute;ter Pejtsik.&nbsp;The Importance of Birds&nbsp;comes out digitally and on vinyl on&nbsp;12&nbsp;September 2025. Four tracks will be released in advance: &ldquo;Nowhere Again, Kinder&rdquo; in May, &ldquo;And There Was Nowhere&rdquo;&nbsp;in June, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve Been Here Before&rdquo; in July and &ldquo;Row Softer Home&rdquo; in August.
The release will be supported by an Autumn UK and European tour with dates to be announced shortly.

Snorri Hallgrímsson – Deutsche Grammophon  announces debut EP: Longer shadows, softer stones

Deutsche Grammophon is delighted to announce the release of Longer shadows, softer stones, the debut Yellow Label EP from Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson. The Icelandic composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with DG several times in recent years, creating imaginative reworks of &ldquo;Idylle&rdquo; from Erik Satie&rsquo;s Avant-derni&egrave;res pens&eacute;es (2021), V&iacute;kingur &Oacute;lafsson&rsquo;s performance of &ldquo;Vogel als Prophet&rdquo; from Robert Schumann&rsquo;s Waldszenen (&ldquo;The Plover and the Raven&rdquo;, 2023) and Lili Boulanger&rsquo;s D&rsquo;un vieux jardin (2024).
Now he has written and produced six original tracks for an EP that encourages us to travel with hope, despite the darkness of the world around us. &ldquo;The older I get and the more I learn &ndash; the more I understand this immense feeling of disillusion that I&rsquo;ve always felt&rdquo;, he notes. &ldquo;We often associate melancholic music with depression, but to me depression is what happens when we go down the spiral of escapism to ignore the discomfort. I am at my absolute happiest when I can sit, live and breathe with the disillusion and use it to fuel my creativity.&rdquo;
Hallgr&iacute;msson provides the vocals in the opening track, &ldquo;Three Week Cloud&rdquo;, as well as playing piano and programming the recording&rsquo;s electronic elements. He is joined by string players from the Reykjav&iacute;k Orchestra, conducted by Viktor Orri &Aacute;rnason. Longer shadows, softer stones comes out digitally and on vinyl on 4&nbsp;October 2024. Three tracks will be released in advance: &ldquo;With Love, Despite the Pain&rdquo; in July, &ldquo;Hinum megin&rdquo; (&ldquo;On the other side&rdquo;) in August and &ldquo;And I Alone&rdquo; in September.
Snorri Hallgr&iacute;msson grew up in a musical family and trained as a classical guitarist as well as singing in choirs. On discovering film music in his teens, he began writing his own pieces, going on to study composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Berklee College of Music. He then worked closely with &Oacute;lafur Arnalds on projects including The Chopin Project (with Alice Sara Ott) and the award-winning score for the TV series Broadchurch. Hallgr&iacute;msson released his first solo album, Orbit, in 2018 (&ldquo;a glorious debut&rdquo; Spellbinding Music).
&ldquo;Orbit&nbsp;is&nbsp;as close to flawless as anything that&rsquo;s crossed my desk this year. Musically, it&rsquo;s stunning. Thematically, it is dramatic without being melodramatic. Emotionally, it&rsquo;s sad, but never maudlin. This is the kind of record you never forget.&rdquo; Exclaim!
Further solo projects followed &ndash; the EPs Landbrot&nbsp;I and Landbrot&nbsp;II, and the album I Am Weary, Don&rsquo;t Let Me Rest (&ldquo;pieces of music on the verge of perfection&rdquo; Gezeitenstrom Musikmagazin), winner of Production of the Year at the 2024 Icelandic Music Awards. He has composed chamber and choral works, too, while his growing list of soundtracks includes Chasing The Present, Jaula/The Chalk Line and Innocence. His music also features in Paolo Sorrentino&rsquo;s latest film Parthenope, premiered at this year&rsquo;s Cannes Festival.
&ldquo;His music is characterised by a healthy dose of Icelandic melancholy, fed with electronic undercurrents&rdquo; 5&nbsp;Finger Review
Hallgr&iacute;msson&rsquo;s characteristically atmospheric DG debut EP opens with &ldquo;Three Week Cloud&rdquo;, written in 2022 during a short residency in Nantes. &ldquo;I had the opportunity and encouragement to simply focus on creating and enjoying the moment,&rdquo; he recalls. &ldquo;It felt like floating on a cloud. [Here] I take on the role of the cloud, inviting you to lean on me while I carry you onwards to the rest of the EP.&rdquo;
He does so by creating a soundworld of subtle beauty, consisting of poignant but uplifting solo piano lines, at times underpinned by warm, gently shifting string arrangements and/or layers of electronica that ebb and flow, bearing us ever further along a winding musical path.
In &ldquo;With Love, Despite the Pain&rdquo; and &ldquo;And I Alone&rdquo; Hallgr&iacute;msson addresses the sense of isolation that can overwhelm us when we watch the news. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m hopeful, despite the horror,&rdquo; he says. Continuing a theme from I Am Weary, Don&rsquo;t Let Me Rest, he references Dante&rsquo;s Inferno, reminding us that as the writer took courage from having Virgil as his guide, &ldquo;we can take courage and follow each other&rdquo;.
Next is &ldquo;a musical double-act, with &lsquo;M&oacute;an&oacute;ra&rsquo; written as the calm breath of air you needed after the more chaotic &lsquo;Sumrar&rsquo;&rdquo;. In Icelandic, sumrar means &ldquo;becoming summer&rdquo; (&ldquo;I very much enjoy that in my language we have specific verbs for the happening of the seasons, as it implies a continuous motion rather than a static state&rdquo;), while m&oacute;an&oacute;ra is the name for Sabulina stricta, a plant found primarily in the highlands (&ldquo;an important reminder that beautifully fragile creations can survive even in the harshest of environments&rdquo;).
&ldquo;Hinum megin&rdquo; is inspired by Ingibj&ouml;rg Haraldsd&oacute;ttir&rsquo;s short poem Svar (&ldquo;Answer&rdquo;), lines from which also provide the EP with its title. &ldquo;If this EP has a theme, the theme would be a journey,&rdquo; notes Hallgr&iacute;msson. &ldquo;And this gorgeous poem invites us to imagine what it&rsquo;s like at the end of the biggest journey of them all.&rdquo;

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