Iceland's Bedroom Community record label (formed in 2006 by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly and Ben Frost) are heading out across Europe for The Whale Watching Tour. More than just a series of concerts, the tour is an extension of the ongoing musical exchange between the label's roster of diverse artists. Disparate musical backgrounds coexist and collide as Valgeir, Nico, Ben and recruit Sam Amidon perform music from their catalogues, as well as introducing new and previously unreleased material (plus a surprise or two along the way).

The program will be constructed in true Bedroom Community fashion, where all the artists will contribute to each other's music on stage, akin to their many studio collaborations. The set will flow undivided between Nico's twitchy modern compositions, Valgeir's surgical acoustic-electronica, Ben's vast noise-scapes and Sam's traditional tunes and murder ballads - mixed perhaps with liturgical dancing, projections and stories that you never know whether are true or not...

To aid the creation of this remarkable amalgam of genres on The Whale Watching Tour will be a quartet of extraordinary musicians; Nadia Sirota (viola), Una Sveinbjarnardóttir (violin), Borgar Magnason (double-bass), Helgi Hrafn Jónsson (trombone and vocals), all of whom have all recorded and toured with the four headliners.

To get you in the mood here's a great new video from Valgeir Sigurdsson's stunning 2008 debut album, Ekvilibrium. The song is called Winter Sleep and features vocalist Dawn McCarthy.