Kira Kira sometimes plays solo but mostly with a cozy crew of 3-5 friends:
Alex Somers on piano, glock and casio puppy.
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson on trumpet and keyboard.
Samuli Kosminen on percussion (dingalee dang).
Pétur Hallgrímsson on lapsteel (skriðgítar).
Guðlaug Dröfn on glock and organetta.
Kári Hólmar Ragnarsson on trombone and noises.
Magnús Helgason on super 8 projector.
Hilmar Jensson on guitar.
Kippi Kaninus on laptop.
Kira herself (Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir) sings and plays home made gadgets, laptop, guitar, glock, kalimba, melodica, music boxes and curious blinking toys.
An unpredictable dialogue of electro-acoustic pranksterism and innocent melodic pop is at the heart of Our Map to the Monster Olympics, the new LP from this curious Icelandic artist.
Picking up where we left off on her 2006 LP Skotta, Our Map to the Monster Olympics is a twisting, sometimes terrifying, often glorious and touching kaleidoscope of a record. Swarms of fragmented voices mouth melodies through home made microphones while contact-mic’ed Kalimba’s fight for breath in seas of beautifully damaged technicolour, granulated shotgun beats fire from sniper positions in foreboding atmospheres- AND YET armies of glockenspiels, brass and casio’s remind us that everything will, in fact, be ok-
Since 1999 Kira has been a constant enigma- extremely hard to define and almost impossible to anticipate. As a founding member of Icelandic art collective Kitchen Motors, audio/visual artist Kira Kira has been a pivotal figure in contemporary Icelandic music. She has composed music extensively for theatre, dance and film and created a myriad of sound and video installations everywhere from Beijing to New York. Taking a particular interest in blurring the lines of visual and performing arts Kira has appeared in all kinds of curious venues; in church towers, gallery spaces, abandoned prisons, croatian breweries and various other curious places, creating lasting images of singing black holes, dueling smoke machines, kite symphonies and exploding cassette tapes across the globe.
More info: www.this.is/kirakira and www.kitchenmotors.com.
FOR BOOKINGS CONTACT: MATTIAS ALBINSON AT HEADSTOMP PRODUCTIONS - mattias@headstomp.com
Hi Kira! How's everything? We have a couple of new tracks online. Check out "Arla", "Algon" and "Eske Kraai". Hope you like them! More songs will follow soon. Love, Sierra Morgun
hello kira kira! thank you very much for the kind words, your music is beautiful as well! we love it! glad to be myspace friends, and we'll definitely say hello to Balmorhea for you. let's stay in touch! cheers, a&s
Reykjavík! Sudden Weather Chance and AMFJ. Kaffistofan June 16th at Kaffistofan-Nemendagallerí on Hverfisgata 42 starts at 21.30/9.30pm. Guests will be kindly asked to donate a little bit to Sudden Weather Chance cause they were robbed of all their gear the other day and need to buy new once. hopefully we'll see you there. free admission.
oh, that poster was from our friends http://www.myspace.com/treizemusique who played before you! By the way, here is the report about you on our musical TV)) http://www.a1tv.ru/?id=80298&rid=56559&vid=118999&page=165
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