These have been exciting months. I've recorded and mixed a jazz album with my piano trio,
Hot Eskimos. I've arranged and produced a duet album with two beloved tenors from Iceland who
happen to be father and son; Garðar Cortes and Garðar Thor Cortes. And I've been producing a
Christmas song that I wrote which will be a special anniversary song for the Frostroses tour. This year
marks the tenth time we do the concert so we decided to do something special; namely the song.
A DVD and a double CD will also be released and I've been doing some production work for that too.
The jazz CD and the father and son CD will be out soon, I'll let you know. But until then, here's the
video of the new song; Af álfum.

Finally, my first CD in Swedish. And it comes with a book! (Coffee not included). The Icelandic poet
Unnur Sólrún wrote the poems, Jörgen Midander took the photographs and I wrote the songs. A three
media project that was intensive and fun. I recorded it at home where I have the studio of my dreams
right in my living room. And the young but very talented Lizette Medz Andersson donated her voice to
the songs. We start the release with an exhibition at Karibakka gallery in Sölvesborg in Southern
Sweden. There the focus will be on the photos although the poems will be on the walls along with
them. And the music from the CD will seep from the gallery's sound system. More exhibitions are
planned, also some book conferences and hopefully some concerts as well. Many things possible with
so many medias. Check out the video I did to one of the songs one night in july. 

I took some time off to fly up to dear old Stockholm (my first time there actually) and lead the
band in a concert with Friðrik Ómar and Yohanna. It was held in a beautiful theater called Göta Lejon
and as they are doing Romeo and Juliet these days, we performed in that set, in the middle of an
Italian forest. The concert was great and I got to meet a lot of talented people from the music world
in Stockholm. As a matter of fact, a member of the audience took the photo above, an singer called
Neo. It was probably taken on his cell phone. The details are hard to make out. But the colors are
great. I'm sitting there at my piano behind the singer. Can you see me ?

I've been doing a little bit of writing TV-themes, film music and commercials the last year.
I did the music for a science show for the National TV in Iceland called "Nýsköpun" Since
the subject was science I had the theme calculated and technical. Build on a pattern known
to drummers as paradiddles, where they hit with their sticks in the strange order of
Left, Right, Left, Left; Right, Left, Right, Right. So I decided to turn it into something musical.
Fun stuff. And so I did some variations for the different part of the show.

Then there was this short film about the volcano eruptions last year that I was asked to set
music to. The music got big and bold to match the images. The film is called The Eruption
and is sold to defenseless tourists in Iceland.

I also did the music to a commercial an insurance company. As it often is with TV commercials
it had to be in the same mood as the temp track. It was a homely folk guitar strum and I really
had to eq the brains out of my fine Martin guitar to make it sound like a cheap hi-school party
guitar to fit the mood that the director was after.

There's nothing like having some different projects now and then to keep the dullness away!