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Music from the heart. From an island called Iceland. A record that wants to boil over because of all its energy, lust and sometimes also funniness. A record, equally peculiar as idiosyncratic. As the pot is that huge 26-year-old Benni Hemm Hemm throws all possible ingredients in.
And it is that peculiar as all the different ingredients do not spoil the paste in the end. It’s a little big band with little big songs. The greatest of them takes only 2 minutes and 58 seconds: „Beygja Og Beygja“.
There is the emphatic brass section of Northern Soul. And, last but not least, there is a Benni Hemm Hemm who holds all that together, who once is the inward, suffering man, the passionate narrator, and then the crafty entertainer. There are real,
honest love-songs on this album. And there are songs one simply has to love.
The tracks of this album were written during a stay in Italy lasting several months. Maybe it was this new, distanced perspective on usual correlations and
interrelations has contributed to the casual complexity of this debut-album. A debut-album, by the way, that was awarded as the best album of the island state on the occasion of the Icelandic Music Awards. Besides, Benni Hemm Hemm and his band were elected as the best newcomer. In September 2005 the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the Icelandiccapital Reykjavik for a first time.
Now it is re-released on Sound of a Handshake, Morr
Music’s small, curious sister. A new home for an album that will grow with each time one listens to it. Equally as
And it is that peculiar as all the different ingredients do not spoil the paste in the end. It’s a little big band with little big songs. The greatest of them takes only 2 minutes and 58 seconds: „Beygja Og Beygja“.
There is the emphatic brass section of Northern Soul. And, last but not least, there is a Benni Hemm Hemm who holds all that together, who once is the inward, suffering man, the passionate narrator, and then the crafty entertainer. There are real,
honest love-songs on this album. And there are songs one simply has to love.
The tracks of this album were written during a stay in Italy lasting several months. Maybe it was this new, distanced perspective on usual correlations and
interrelations has contributed to the casual complexity of this debut-album. A debut-album, by the way, that was awarded as the best album of the island state on the occasion of the Icelandic Music Awards. Besides, Benni Hemm Hemm and his band were elected as the best newcomer. In September 2005 the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the Icelandiccapital Reykjavik for a first time.
Now it is re-released on Sound of a Handshake, Morr
Music’s small, curious sister. A new home for an album that will grow with each time one listens to it. Equally as
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theyshootmusic wrote:
http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/Benni_Hemm_Hemm - Acoustic offstage videos with BENNI HEMM HEMM performing "Whaling in the North Atlantic" & "Avian I Afganistan" at Apollo Garage in Vienna.
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xgeorgx wrote:
Join: http://www.last.fm/group/Nordische-Musik.de
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Streetee wrote:
he goes alright.
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kevin14455 wrote:
ég vil allur musik frá hann!. i want all his music but i can´t find it! send it to me! ksc14_91@hotmail.com
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GoGoJonah wrote:
blows.
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SamSycamore wrote:
Pretty good music
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freevolt wrote:
This is really nice.
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apfelmuse wrote:
listening to this band turns a sad me into a happy one, which is a rather respectable thing in my humble opinion
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Anne1454 wrote:
Their new album, Morta St Calunga, is out and really good!
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RedSkyline wrote:
yea that description is ridiculous
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Degarmo wrote:
terrible artist description, someone needs to change it
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betweentheether wrote:
saw them play at a record store this december in iceland. it was lots of fun!
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awffle wrote:
gaayyy
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illa_piusa wrote:
BENNI HEMM HEMM. what a funny name
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slstn wrote:
Hola! Check out this great acoustic little thingy Benni Hemm Hemm did for Norwegian TV: http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/lydverket-videoplayer/?bcpid=1378342454&bclid=1411847775&bctid=1428627688
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pifflola wrote:
♥!
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Faeerie wrote:
<3
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TheAlexH wrote:
You mean múm? :P He sounds good though, what an amazing lineup it would be if he was on in Manchester too...
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rossyroo wrote:
Supporting Mum in London.
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puddlegum wrote:
Benni Hemm Hemm playing the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival: http://puddlegum.net/iceland-airwaves-music-festival-over-170-bands/
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- Apr 12 Benni Hemm Hemm Sonderbar, Feldkirch, Austria
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