Árstíðir - Vetrarsól Tour 2025

In the organizer's words:

Warm and melodious voices, delicate musical structures, electronic soundscapes interwoven with real instruments - you feel pleasantly enveloped by the songs of the Icelandic band ÁRSTÍÐIR. They remind you of the close-harmony arrangements of Simon [&] Garfunkel as well as the floating post-rock of their compatriots Sigur Rós.

Founded in 2008, the band catapulted into the charts in their home country in their very first year of existence. In the years that followed, ÁRSTÍÐIR took off in Germany. They won important prizes for the band there. The performance that brought them to the attention of a large audience (4 million clicks on YouTube) for the first time in 2013 also took place in Wuppertal. As they began to tour extensively, they went viral with an 800-year-old chorale sung spontaneously at an acoustically melodious train station.

The foundation of ÁRSTÍÐIR[nbsp]s music is the chemistry between members Daníel, Gunnar and Ragnar and their shared passion for vocal harmonies. All three band members have strong and individual characters and take turns singing the lead vocals. Another trademark of the band is their use of strings and the way they interact with the vocal harmonies. On tour and in the studio, ÁRSTÍÐIR[nbsp]expand their team with the dynamic French string duo Jean-Samuel Bez (violin) and Guillaume Lagravière (cello).

The band has collaborated with artists such as Ólafur Arnalds and released two albums with Icelandic songwriting legend Magnús Þór Sigmundsson. Her album "Nivalis" was named "Indie Album of the Year" at the Independent Music Awards 2019. During the pandemic, the trio wrote more than 30 new songs, from which the two sister albums "Pendúll" (2021, in Icelandic) [&] "BLIK" (2023, in English) were subsequently created.

In their songs, they combine organic acoustic traditions with modern electronic arrangements with skillful ease. The four Icelanders cannot be pinned down to one genre. "Classically influenced indie folk rock" is perhaps the best way to describe their atmospherically beautiful music.

ÁRSTÍÐIR hit a nerve with their song line "Not everything you feel can be seen, but the feeling lasts so long". It describes a poignant, almost hypnotic state that the audience experiences in their live concerts and they hope that this feeling lasts long after the last note has been played.