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NME sad about Mysterious Martas performance at Aldrei fór ég suður (Icelandic musicfestival - Never went south):
"Mysterious Marta - who lives just around the corner from the venue - thrilled the crowd with vocals and songs reminiscent of Regina Spektor."
Iceland Review sad about Mysterious Marta: "Despite the weighty pretense of costumes and make up, this dichotomous little descanter floats on a plaintive but earnest voice and fantastcal songs-the candor of her music is only made all the more apparent peering out from under all the silly affections."
Marta was 17 years old when she asked for guitar lessons for Xmas, she got a guitar instead. She didn’t touch it for a whole year, she thought that it wasn’t possible for her to learn how to play it. But one day she tried to play Hey jude and it sounded like Hey jude!
After that, there was no turning back and soon she started to write songs.
She lived in a small town called Ísafjörður for almost two years. When she first moved there she felt that everybody was watching her. She could tell on the faces of the locals that they were thinking “Who is this Marta? What is she doing here? Where did she come from?”. That is how the name Mysterious Marta became hers. Marta loved living in Ísafjörður, she was somewhere out of nowhere and had the mountains and the sea surrounding her and that is a big part of her music.
She used to have a mask painted on her face when she went on stage, that was part of Mysterious Marta, being a some kind of superhero that was not afraid of playing in front of people, ’cause Marta Sif was very afraid of it. Now she doesn’t need the mask any more which is good news.
Mysterious Marta has been playing for two years now. She has played at festivals like Melodica Acoustic Festival (In Hamburg and Reykjavík), Aldrei fór ég suður and Hafstraumar. This spring she won a competition called The cod war. COD music records have this competition every year to find new talents and this year Marta won. There were 135 bands that competed this year and Marta won 10 kg. of cod, box of Lýsi (liver oil) and a record deal.
Next year Marta will release her first album.
oh, i couldnt make it to the festival... i was sick the whole week, still are, the flu... :(((( and no cd from craig yet... but i am sure that he will give it to me next time we meet. i am happy to hear that you like my cd! a very old buddy of mine just offert me his studio for free use, so i will be able to re-record all the songs and new ones on a much better level :) which i will start as soon as i am fit again.
Hej! och Tack för senast, det var mycket trevligt! men jag försov mig till maten...Lycka till ikväll med Ivar och Hlynur!! Hoppas att allt är bra, vi ses! tim
yeah - i'm really looking forward to play tonight and watch ivar and you play afterwards. will be a great evening! (i just hope there won't be any jelling football fans around ; ))
hey marta, thanks for remembering to leave one more cd in berlin.. well, i must say.. "the question" is going to remind me forever about our trip to Leipzeig.. thank you!
