Dear friends,

My second solo album is now ready and available.
It wears the name "Without Sinking" and is released by Touch.
I was lucky to have Skúli Sverrisson, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Gudni Franzson lend me their hands, skills, and instruments on many of the tracks. The master of mixers Valgeir Sigurdsson was also kind enough to lend his expertise in the mixing.

You can listen/download a track from the album here:
http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/WithoutSinking/EruptingLight.mp3

If you wish to buy the album via mail order, you can do that here:
http://www.touchshop.org/index.php?cPath=54

Further information about the album follows later in this mail.

To celebrate the new album, a new website www.hildurness.com has now come alive.
It was built by the lovely genius Philip Marshall - www.rebelsincontrol.com

Please visit the website if you want to to follow up on my concert activities etc.

Sincerely yours,
Hildur





Hildur Gudnadóttir - Without Sinking

Touch # TO:70
10 tracks - 47.8 Minutes

CD in Digipak
Artwork and photography: Jon Wozencroft


Track Listing
1. Elevation
2. Overcast
3. Erupting Light
4. Circular
5. Ascent
6. Opaque
7. Aether
8. Whiten
9. Into Warmer Air
10. Unveiled



Composed and recorded by Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir in Berlin and Reykjavík. Hildur played cello, zither, processors and voice.

Additional recordings by Skúli Sverrisson; bass and processors on all tracks except track 7, Jóhann Jóhannsson; organs and processors on tracks 2, 3 and 9 and Gudni Franzson; clarinet and bass clarinet on tracks 7 and 10.

Cello no. 49 was made by David Wiebe in 1991.

This is Hildur Ingveldardóttir Gudnadóttir's second solo album and her first for Touch. ['Mount A' was released on the Icelandic label '12 Tónar' in 2006.] Hildur flew so much during 2007 and 2008 that she spent alot of time staring at clouds through the airplane window, considering their appearance and formation... She says: "My aim with this record was to create a feeling of breath with a bow on string. I wanted to create a sky and cloud-like feeling in the compositions. I wanted to have open space for single notes and let them breath, like single clouds in a clear sky. As a contrast I also wanted create denser and heavier compositions which were more thundercloud like. I like the way clouds form, how many tiny droplets can form such dense forms and then slowly evaporate into thin string-like ones."

'Mount A' was an intensely solo work, composed and recorded in winter darkness, a solitary, rural affair. 'Without Sinking' was recorded in Berlin, mostly during the summer of 2008; also Hildur has collaborated with Icelandic musicians Jóhann Jóhannsson [two of his albums were released on Touch, 'Englaborn' in 2002 and 'Virthulega Forsetar' in 2004], and bassist Skúli Sverrisson. Her father, Gudni Franzson, also guests playing clarinet on two tracks here. This collaborative process is reflected in a much more open sound; there is more space and you can hear the air. Mixed by Valgeir Sigurdsson and Hildur at Greenhouse Studios Iceland, and mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye, 'Without Sinking' is a luxurious, riveting and involving piece of work.

» Read an interview with Hildur at www.icelandmusic.is

» See Hildur perform with BJNilsen live in London, 16th May 2009, as part of Touch Presents... at The Roundhouse


You can buy Without Sinking from the TouchShop


www.hildurness.com


Touch Presents... at The Roundhouse | 16th May 2009

Touch presents, as part of The Short Circuit Festival:

Philip Jeck [UK] and the Gavin Bryars Ensemble [UK/FR] - "The Sinking of the Titanic"
Biosphere [NO]
Hildur Gudnadóttir [IS] & BJNilsen [SE]

+ a multi-channel installation by Chris Watson
+ in the bar, Sheikh Ahmed selecting sounds from the Touch catalogue

Further information at www.roundhouse.org.uk
Book tickets online