Ultimate Calm: Winter Special
Join Icelandic composer 脫lafur Arnalds for a special two-hour wintry journey into calm, with musical safe havens chosen by Loreen and The Staves, and an exclusive live performance.
Ward off the winter cold and get cosy by the fire with a special two-hour seasonal episode of Ultimate Calm with Icelandic composer 脫lafur Arnalds. 脫lafur shares a selection of tracks to transport you out of the hectic noise that comes with this time of year, and reflects on how music can be an escape. With music from the likes of Haruomi Hosono, Anoushka Shankar and Erland Cooper. We visit two musical safe havens over the course of the episode - hearing the music that 脫lafur鈥檚 special guests retreat to in times of stress. Swedish singer-songwriter and Eurovision winner Loreen shares a track that combines piano with the sounds of nature which always makes her feel grounded, and Jess and Millie from English indie folk band The Staves pick a soothing song that makes them take a deep breath and gives them respite from the busy chaos of life. 脫lafur also performs a very special live version of his piano piece 鈥榮aman鈥�, which means 'together' in Icelandic, and shares some reflections on the quirky festive folktales of Iceland, with stories of trolls and icy darkness. Produced by Katie Callin A Reduced Listening production
Music Played
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脫lafur Arnalds
Saman
Music Arranger: The Westerlies. Ensemble: The Westerlies.- The Westerlies.
- Westerlies Records.
- 3.
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Erland Cooper & Scottish Ensemble
Cold (mvmt 3)
- Folded Landscapes.
- Mercury KX.
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Hania Rani
Whispering House (feat. 脫lafur Arnalds)
- Ghosts.
- Gondwana Records.
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Meitei
Heiwa
- Heiwa.
- KITCHEN. LABEL.
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Library Tapes & Shivre
Blids
- Blids.
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Jim Perkins & Curve Ensemble
A Distant Sun
- From the Deep.
- bigo & twigetti.
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Sophie Hutchings
Back of Beyond
- A World Outside.
- Mercury KX.
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JJJJJerome Ellis
Movement IX
- Compline in Nine Movements.
- NNA Tapes.
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Anoushka Shankar
Daydreaming
Performer: Nils Frahm. Performer: Anoushka Shankar.- Chapter I: Forever, For Now.
- LEITER.
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Dau
Neu
- Gilly's Wood.
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Haruomi Hosono
Muji Original BGM
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JFDR
Flower Bridge
- Museum.
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Harmonia & Brian Eno
Welcome
- Tracks and Traces.
- Rykodisc.
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The Staves & yMusic
Sprig of Thyme
- The Way Is Read.
- Nonesuch Records.
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The Staves & yMusic
Bladed Stance
- The Way Is Read.
- Nonesuch.
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Kait Dunton
this one's for you
- Keyboards.
- Real & Imagined Music.
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Sin Fang
Parallel Universes
- Sikadene.
- I N N I.
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Keith Jarrett
Ko虉ln, January 24, 1975, Pt. II C (Live)
- The K枚ln Concert.
- ECM.
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Lara Somogyi & Cyrus Reynolds
acceptances (orchestral expansion)
- ! (expansion).
- Mercury Classics.
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Grouper
A Light Change
- Grouper / Inca Ore.
- YELLOWELECTRIC.
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Hauschka
Loved Ones
- Philanthropy.
- City Slang.
- 8.
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Kate Carr
Snowstorm
- Snowstorm.
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Kjartan Holm
Begin
- HORIZON.
- I N N I.
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Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu
Asa
- Asa.
- Moderna Records.
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John Martyn
Small Hours
- One World.
- Island Records.
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Hidden Orchestra
Wingbeats Source III - Piano and Wings
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Tomo-Nakaguchi
Twilight Glow of The Sky
- The Long Night in Winter Light.
- Audiobulb Records.
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Josiah Steinbrick
Lullaby
- For Anyone That Knows You.
- Unseen Worlds.
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叠箩枚谤办
闯辞虂濒补办辞虉迟迟耻谤颈苍苍
- Hv铆t Er Borg Og B忙r.
- 贬濒箩贸冒补办濒别迟迟耻谤.
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Ola Gjeilo
Winter Light
Performer: Roberto Sorrentino.- Dreamweaver.
- DECCA RECORDS.
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Simeon Walker
Gleam
- Imprints 1 & 2.
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Natalia Beylis
Mermaids
- Mermaids.
- Touch Sensitive Records.
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Suso S谩iz
Looking You in Silence
- Resonant Bodies.
- Music from Memory.
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脫lafur Arnalds
Saman (live performance for festive special)
Performer: 脫lafur Arnalds.- Sunrise Sessions II.
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