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Relax and flow with river-inspired music ft. Nanna

Ultimate Calm Ólafur Arnalds: Series 3
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Ólafur Arnalds ebbs and flows with some relaxing music inspired by rivers. Plus Icelandic musician Nanna brings us along to her safe haven on the banks of her favourite river.

Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds goes with the flow in this episode, with a selection of relaxing music inspired by rivers, and the change they can represent in ourselves. He’ll play music by Brian Eno, KMRU and Sophia Subbayya Vastek, and share thoughts on the river systems and glaciers in the landscape around him in Iceland.

Plus fellow Icelander Nanna brings us along to her safe haven. Nanna is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, formerly part of the indie folk band Of Monsters and Men, and now writes a lot of her own solo material in a cabin outside Reykjavik. We join her there, beside the banks of a small river where she spends a lot of time with her dog and the birds, to hear more about what brings her ultimate calm.

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Music Played

  • Ange Halliwell

    The unseen river

    • Mr. Faustin.

  • Snorri Hallgrímsson

    Flow

    • Chasing the Present (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Moderna Records.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    The Road 6. Husedalen

    • Dreamweaver.
    • Decca.

  • KMRU

    drawing water

    • drawing water.

  • Sophia Subbayya Vastek

    The Seas That Made Us

    • In Our Softening.

  • Liz Hanks

    Brook (small stream)

    • Land.
    • Hudson Records.
    • HUD034CD.

  • Takahiro Kido

    Sakura

    • in my Time.
    • Ricco.

  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Particles (Island Songs VI) (feat. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir)

    • Island Songs.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Patrick Shiroishi

    a trickle of water led to a quiet pool, where still, black water reflected the n

    • evergreen.
    • Touch Music.

  • Phoria

    Current

    • Caught a Black Rabbit.
    • Akira Records.

  • Edvard Alsing Seland

    Change

    • Change.
    • Moderna Records.

  • Andy Aquarius

    Waters Above, Waters Below

    • Golla Gorroppu.
    • Hush Hush Records.

  • Mette Henriette

    Divining

    • Drifting.
    • ECM.

  • Brian Eno

    By This River

    • Before and After Science.
    • Island Records.

  • Frank Bridge

    3 Lyrics for piano, no.1; Heart's ease (Andante tranquillo)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

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