Amazingly, no scientist has yet studied why artists from Iceland repeatedly make a heavy international splash in music year after year. After all, this place of three hundred thousands souls should not, mathematically, be even a tiny blimp on the international stage. But it does and the reason will become obvious as soon as you arrive.
Everybody knows Björk. Lots of people worldwide know the bands Sigur Rós and the late Sugarcubes. And the names of many other bands and singers have cought the attention of music-loving people everywhere. Names like Retro Stefson, Gus Gus, Olof Arnalds, Jonsi, Of Monsters and Men, Dikta, Paul Oscar, Mugison and Hraun to mention a few.
Just by listening to a sample of these artists you might notice that although the different bands are playing very different music it all stems from the same Icelandic core; Nature.
Don´t agree with us? Check out these songs and then tell us why Icelanders makes such wonderful, and special, music again and again and again and again….