Ólafur Arnalds, Nanna - Particles (Island Songs VI) ft. Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2016
- Ólafur Arnalds brings you the sixth single from Island Songs, his 7-week journey across Iceland to record a series of compositions.
Watch Particles, where he collaborates with Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, the co-lead vocalist in Of Monsters and Men. The video is directed by Baldvin Z.
You can download or stream Particles - Island Songs here:
MKX.lnk.to/OAislandsongsID
www.IslandSongs.is
When my wife died suddenly in 2018, this song perfectly captured my feelings of utter desolation - but it was also strangely comforting. I played it so many times in the months afterwards. Today I revisited it for the first time in a couple of years and it’s still profoundly moving. Much love to everyone who finds this song special for whatever reason.
I can appreciate your finding comfort in this song...finding peace and comfort in the midst of grief is a rare yet powerful blessing.
You and your wife are loved, even by strangers who have never met you. I am glad this song brought you comfort. Music connects all of us.
My 32 years old daughter died also in december 2018, and it's true that this song and a lot of other song written and played by Olafur Arnalds produce the same effect but also make you cry.
best wishes friend
This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
I agree completely…….after years I still get goosebumps.
Yes!!!
@@silentpianomusic It is the most beautiful. I am pianist from the conservatory, Pure Genius. And Bjork's twin. What more can you ask for.
Here I am
Floating in emerald sea
Keep me dancing
Keep me as still as can be
And I try to keep the balance right
And I try but it feels like wasted time
But these heavy hands
They're pulling me down on my chest
Latching on, coloring all of my flesh
Quietly, you hover over me
And I fight, but it feels like wasted time
Feels like wasted time
Say goodnight
I know that I'm swallowed in sea
We collide, colors that devour me
Just say goodnight
I'm already down
And I cry
Already down
Already down
And I cry
Already down
And I try
And I try
But it feels like wasted
gave me hope in the darkest times. saved my live and gave me the motivation fighting out of the wheelchair. thanx for that beautiful composition
This is hands down one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard
And one of the most boring.
no need to be abusive sir
+bruceaisher i feel sorry for him. poor human.
I listen to your music Electus!
I am sitting here saying the same thing. I keep listening to him and his songs and I find one after the other that is just better than before...and I just keep on going. :) He is fantastic!!!
I'm jealous of all the people who get to hear this for the first time.
It’s my first time lol
It is indeed stunning! 💜💜💜
Me. One hour ago. Sweet baby jesus.
I am one of them now and played it a couple of times...
Like me ❤
This song saw me through one of the hardest things I've ever been through; the stillbirth of my son 23/10/2018
So, for me personally, this is now Hezekiah's song. Happy heavenly birthday, little man xx
Your post just broke my heart.
♥️
Bless your heart. I lost one too. Never forgotten ❤
❤️
here in these times of COVID 19.... finding peace and stability from a world gone mad.
may all of you be well and safe.
I listen to this frequently....so beautiful
CONvid brother 👊🏾
COVID 19 will never beat the human spirit. We are spiritual beings just living a human experience. And that's no match for Covid and the madness.
❤️❤️
The whole world should listen to this song, have a good long cry together and then just start over. Reset. More compassionate. Pure hearts. Loving kindness. Brothers. Sisters. Less ego. More empathy. Less talk. More action. Brothers. Sisters.
GODDDD YESSS !!! bless this comment...even after two years more relevant than ever.
A hundred times YES.
There is a pure regret behind it though: m.ua-cam.com/video/bp1aP_CEq44/v-deo.html
this is such a beautiful comment. thank you for this
We don't have to know in order to love. I love you all. 🌿
Possibly my most fav song ever. Nanna and Olafur need to make a full length album.
This song makes me think about how do humans feel, trying to escape from war in their country, feeling a total emotional distress, surviving lost in the middle of the Mediterranean sea with their children, far from their beloved and their roots, their sweet memories, their whole identity... trying to survive to geopolitics violence!!
So innocent people, I send you all my love and strength.
I feel you 💓🌍💔🫂🫀❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks to musicians and artists that help us connect with our heart, our humanity 💓🙏🏼☮️🌍
Ólafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Ludovico Einaudiu, just perfection. 🌌🎇
César Castro Nils Frahm :-)
I loved it :) . Also Federico Albanese and Dardust :D
ludovico einaudi??? this one is james last & paul mauriat style!!!!!!!!!
Yann Tiersen
and sigur ros and jon hopkins and sasha and four tet and bonobo and boards of canada
That's it, I'm moving to Iceland.
Goosebumps...
Chillhop Music ayy it's you
Hey thank you chillhop for all you produce. perhaps this is inspiration✌👩👧👦
oui !!! in french we could add : un slow qui tue !!! ahah
SAME!!!
And Gänsehaut on top!
I used to listen to this beautiful song when I was under my chemo treatment. Thanks for this beautiful music ❤️
I dont know why, but I can't hear this song without crying. I wouldnt usually call myself an overly emotional man, but something about this piece reaches deep inside me and fills me with a sea of feelings that I can't really explain. Amazing music, I wish everyone could take some time to sit down, listen to this song and let wash over them...
my God, icelandic blood is precious
Damn right XD
PREACH
yeah, iceland is something else
No it is not. Or not any more precious than any other blood. It may appear that an unusually high percentage of Icelanders are making appealing music, and indeed, a larger number of Icelanders do, but it has nothing to do with genetics or blood. The main reason is subsidised music schools and the grate work done there. A large percentage of Icelandic children study music from age six and up, the vast majority of which never become musicians, but a side effect of this is that the kids learn to listen to (and yes this is something you can learn and get better at) and appreciate different types of music (effectively building a market for music). This large percentage of kids learning music insures that those that do have an innate knack for it actually discover this talent instead of becoming a lawyer, hairdresser or a used car sales man. Long story short, good things come to those who work hard for them. This applies to societies just as it applies to individuals.
I don't think he meant it literally.
He meant it maybe in a poetic way, that what makes Icelanders Icelandic is something to be treasured, captured, retained, hope never to be lost.
Every time I’m listening this song.. I’m crying 😢
Are they putting something weird in the Icelandic water? How do you get so many great musicians?
Kenneth Skertchly It's probably the lack of things they put in their water :)
I suspect it has something to do with the bleak but beautiful landscape surroundng them. they can see beauty and pain being something which are equally valuable?..their music reflects this and is more authentic...as opposed to big booty shallow crap we get in the west?
Kenneth Skertchly the water runs clean you can lay down in nature and drink it💧💧❄🌊
Icelandic water is the purest and fresher water i probably drunk in all my life...! It could well be the secret! :D
vitamine D deficiency may be. what ever it is it works!
To this day, I still have no idea how they got a piano up the stairs of that lighthouse.
They just got the piano upright the stairs... *Badum tss*
They made the piano upstairs
they did build the lighthouse round the piano
Good its an upright.
Umm....In Particles?
Brazil already loves you too, Ólafur! You are walking with very nice people, your mom may be proud.
Yeaaaaaah
May more proud mothers unite!
Indeed! Those Icelandic people, man, they're just too special
And Russians ))
Wow. this music is so full of emotion and love. You can feel it. Its not something you listen to, you FEEL it.
Piano Around the World it's about someone drowning her...
@@shibbyrick that's too literal an interpretation my G.
This song is emotion, you feel not listening to it.
ua-cam.com/video/fTNv-ZE-Ooo/v-deo.html&start_radio=1
11, July 2022, had the worst heartbreak, just got a terrible covid with a fever that won't go down, i was home alone and couldn't reach out for any friends' help, resigned from a toxic job with no future plan or opportunity.
This song was my companion.
And I tell you, it gets so much better. So much.
Come back every few months. Never gets old. It still hits.
Nanna's voice is beautiful, that's the only way to tell you. I saw Of Monsters and Men live 7 years ago in Philadelphia. The entire band is beyond talented. Unless you've seen them in person, it's almost unexplainable. One of the best shows I've ever been to.
Day 978 still listening every day and having a few minutes of flying with the angels
I just wish there was more music like this.
@Peurpda Peurp thank you for the suggestion! I'll check that out
@@JBells96 what suggestion was? :(
I'm glad this song was featured on Skam France Season 4 episode 5. This song is so beautiful.
I'm over half a century old.. this song rates in my top ten, most beautiful of all time. This is sublimely good.. thank you Olafur. What's in that Icelandic water??
Its the weather, the cold and dark breeds depth and character. Iceland has the highest per capita prescriptions of anti-depressants in the world, this darkness and turbulence helps makes the whole. Beauty is a symmetry of light and dark, it is found at the inflection point between the negative and positive emotional states, this song exemplifies this, you need both sides.
The bride is beautiful because she is shielded by the veil, the veil is the bridge between light and dark, the best and most beautiful music is found here, the veil is the inflection point.
I'm watching this for like the 10th time and still don't feel like wasting time.
For me it's like the 30+ time I've watched this and still don't feel like wasting time.
Iceland always produces very talented musicians!
There is some serious genius in Icelandic air.
When a country doesn't spend its time waging wars or fighting their population, it becomes a safe environment for creators.
@@InXLsisDeo We have to defend the Western world against threats in order for the next generation to produce art and divine master piece. I totally agree with you
I just played this for my grade 8 class after analyzing the lyrics as they connect to our novel study of "Speak". The were able to interpret the emotions related to trying and trying to hold things together, despite have it seem all worthless..."feels like wasted time." Beyond the lyrics they expressed how much her voice, the movement of the camera doing circles around the players, the repetition of chords on the piano, and even the instrumentalists on the steps gave depth and meaning to the song. The novel, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, tells the story of a 9th grade girl who is in the depth of isolation, sadness, and anger after a summer tragedy. Very powerful.
many thanks for your bounding on the "speak" of ann intentionally and intonally alliancing on the melodic flow of music, words and metrik in ourselfes!
Now I have another point of pushing me, myself, the dance and surroundings, into the greater fields of earth, stars and the H to O, for others to grow!
Thank you for your post, Ken, I didn't know it's based on a novel
Alan Baulch it isn’t actually based on the novel. I just found that it speaks directly to the themes in the novel. It is no coincidence that I came across this song at the time I was guiding my students through the novel.
What a great teacher you are. ❤ Love this beautiful song, and I shall look up that novel now.
@@suecondon1685 Thank you.
One of the best songs I have
heard in my 50+ years on this planet.
I hope angels are half as beautiful as Nanna ❤
im so glad i stalked someone's youtube channel n saw their playlists 😂
Thank you Skam France for making us discovering the most beautiful Music.
I hope the next collab is with Jonsi or Alex Somers. They are both amazingly talented artists!
Yes for Jonsi!
"Sin Fang feat. Jonsi". Just search on UA-cam guys.
omfg
Imagine, Glòsoli or another beautiful theme, hey sàtan Nanna and Jònsi.
just beautiful!
I listened to it all night and cried endlessly.... 😢
Same here😢, хотя зачем тебе грустить? Ничего не меняется! Я только видела, как умирают невинные люди и животные, и ничего не могу поделать!!!!!!!!!!!
@@fitnessbrotherade2959 k sozalenuju no tak i jest....v zizni proishodjat izmenenija katorie zastavlajut tebja grustit. No asobenno takie pesni tolko kidajet drova v põlajussi grust!!!
I like thinking about the meaning of this song as a story of a drowned woman and her soul out of her body which sees that a lifeguard tries to reanimate her, but she already knows that's too late and it's just wasted time. Whole process of saving life is always emotional, rushing and stressful, but the song maintains peaceful vibe, even though she cries about leaving this world, but knowing it's time to move on. Say goodbye and don't worry- you've done your best
Iceland is, in fact, on another planet... They're to good to be human!
People are not afraid of corona virus at Niagara Falls: ua-cam.com/video/2k5AiSZsZuM/v-deo.html
What a voice and musical arrangements! Nanna Bryndis makes me dream in countless ways, under the guidance of the talented Olafur Arnalds. This is one of those unforgettable musical works of art - it will last for many centuries - for my grandchildren, great-grandchildren and whoever comes through the door of time. Congratulations in the clouds!
Traces of Kate Bush, This Woman's Work. Sensational performance of a beautiful song. ❤❤❤
If less is more then this is the very, very least. It's utterly, utterly extraordinary. It sounds like something a Zen Buddhist monk would compose to explain what cannot be explained in regular language. Olafur and Sigor Ros are the reasons why Iceland is probably the closest country to where natural beauty, poetry and spirituality converge into an ecstatic and blissful state of nirvanic peace. I'm in complete awe at your extraordinary talent. If humanity still exists in five hundred years time , they will look back at this the way we look back at Vermeer and Byrd and Josquin des Prez today. Kudos. Kudos to the max.
So this is what Nanna has been doing, I have to say this was brilliant and I'm interested in Ólafur as a result. Plus does anyone else think she gets better at singing all the time?
This and being on Game of Thrones...
Nothing special XD
This is perhaps one of the most beautiful tracks over heard in a hell of a long time.
Turn off the lights, lay back, headphones on close your eyes and listen. I guarantee you will have an emotional release and one that will last you for a while. I thoroughly enjoyed this...
Wow!!! Thank you
I would like to thanks Skam France for making me discover such a beautiful song.
To this day, Particles remains to be my favorite song hands down. Beyond my adoration for Nanna, this songs consistently stays incredibly prevalent with my current state, no matter the time.
Does anyone realize this is possibly the first collaboration Olafur has done with a female "vocalist". I've been following his music since 2009 or so. This here, is gold, and absolutely new. I was waiting for something like this. A voice like hers, and Olafur's music to go with it. Beautiful!
One of my favorite things about Ólafur's music is how the recordings keep the sounds the piano makes as he presses the keys and pedals. It gives the music this really nice grounded and almost earthy quality.
Frahm does that too, but I think he even goes overboard a bit and it becomes distracting. Olafur gets it right.
...and I just realized that I am crying. This song has touched my soul.
How is this still my favorite song after 6 years and probably thousands of plays? Seriously. It's perfect.
Nanna is too perfect for this world.
Nanna
The setting is so simple, relaxed and informal, yet so beautiful music coming out of it.
So Close, So Far...all Particles. We float, sometimes touching. To music. This music. From the throbbing, loving heart of Iceland.
Please, put this on Spotify asap, I cannot describe how beautiful this is.... I want to listen to it every night when I go to sleep ok, so please, put this on Spotify
Pleeeaaassseeeee
It's there! open.spotify.com/track/0UUo7rvtMRskRiFz18bC8B
+Music Lab Collective added to my playlist!
just buy it from the artists. spotify kills music
Rico Rodriguez if you can contribute, you should absolutely do it. but not everyone can... not everyone live in EU or NA eheheh we gotta buy beans and rice man thats the priority
this song plays randomly in between my playlist of heavy metal/rock sometimes and honestly I've never once decided to skip it... it's too good lol
makes sense since he comes from metal
This is what perfection sounds like
Repeated like 50 times already. So wonderful.
Very soothing and calming
Her voice is so angelic!
She’s ok but she just sounds like everyone else in this vein of music
@@11Garrett11 dua lipa , selena gomez type singers fan u r ??
@@11Garrett11 Actually, in my opinion, she sounds very unique against the rest of today's music. No hate on what you said, I respect your opinion, but I think she is very different.
Try listening to Of Monsters and Men if you like her voice. It’s her band, and it is very cool
best Olafur Arnalds song imo :)
There are so many things happening in such beautiful unison. The fact that as the camera pans and when you hear each instrument is perfection. It's masterclass in everything, music videography, lighting...this song got me through
Came here for Nanna, 😍❤️🇮🇸
Even after 5 years it still open so much inside of me, inside my soul. So much that I write this with moistly eyes.
3:42 love the brush just going on every beat
Più l'ascolto, più ne vengo rapito. Una delle cose più belle che ho ascoltato negli ultimi tempi.
Am I the only one having trouble with this video, AS I CAN'T STOP WATICHING IT! It is soooo beautiful!
I have done more rpms around Garður Lighthouse then my ceiling fan
has all week!
Hahahaa!!! Same here! It's very difficult for me to stop listening to this. It's absolutely magical and heart opening. I am profoundly touched. Extraordinary.
I can listen to this song on an endless loop for hours on end. The vocalist is astounding, the emotion she portrays is heart wrenching. Love it !!
another journey, another life :)...thak you Olafur :)..thank u for ypur best
When going down music rabbit hole's bring you here 🥺❤
I shed a tear Nanna has the most amazing voice I've ever heard
Omg I love her expressions and her voice
We played this music at the funeral of my father. It was so beautiful. Thank you all i will never ever forget it because nothing could make me cry but when the music started i was overwhelmed
juffrouwdewit Rest In peace. Music always help to life. ☝😇
The waiting room to heaven... God will see you now.
Words cannot describe just how beautiful this song is
A grieving healing song. Only God knows our deepest intimate thoughts. Peace.
Absolutely stunning, in the lighthouse is perfect acoustics, very vulnerable and child like truth. Just beautiful. Mahalo❤❤❤
This is what sincere music sounds like. Straight from an honest emotional place. Olafur is real.
Wonderful song. And respect for carrying that iron frame piano up those stairs
Every time I hear it, it gives me the same sensations as the first day: tenderness, love and an extraordinary sensibility.
Still great music many years later
C'est doux comme un rayon de lune
When I first listened to this song I thought it was absolutely beautiful but it wasn't until I experienced this song in the midst of circumstances that held the same tune that every letter spoke to me and I begin to appreciate it as a unique moment in time that can always be repated. Craftsmanship like this is why I started creating music many years ago and also one of many reasons I enjoy it as much as I do today.
That piano is golden and warm. What a great sounding recording.
'Island Songs' is a beautiful body of work.
That was gorgeous.
4 years ago released, only found out about this jewel a week ago, spotify started playing random music when I was asleep and this was so beautiful that I woke up, saved it and went back to sleep
Whenever I miss you, I will come here and continue longing your shadow, the memories and patting the heartache...
Same 😭❤️
This music takes me to another beautiful world
Fascinating location. I have always wanted to go to Iceland.
Una delle melodie più belle che abbia mai sentito , la dedico a te ❤️ ovunque tu sia.....
I'm so blessed with her voice, love you Nanna and thank you Ólafur
Just ethereal. Tugs at every heartstring and loaded with pathos, beautiful...
How do people downvote this? Pure talent, can't stop watching it. Love Nanna!!
warrenbisch really I agree it's too good and I don't understand how anyone can not like it. That leads to my second point, everyone has taste, if this isn't theirs they aren't going to like and appreciate it how we do. Back to the first point, it's pure unadulterated talent and every soul should be able to appreciate something of this standard whether it's their taste or not. I'd say everyone has the right to their opinion, and certainly the right to their expressing of dislike to something. But to finalise my drawn out point and make my final one, why is there a dislike button! By not pressing like that is expressing your free will to not like something. To boldly say I do not like this and have to have that broadcast, especially something to this standard whereby anyone with an ability to feel emotions should be connecting on so many levels. Idk, free choice, individual taste blah blah, that's fine but these type of pieces to actively seek out to dislike it, I assume they boil kittens for fun ;)
Here are the correct lyrics, as posted by Nanna on her Twitter:
Here I am
Floating in emerald sea
Keep me dancing
Keep me still as can be
And I try to keep the balance right
I try but it feels like wasted time
But these heavy hands
They’re pulling me down on my chest
Latching on, coloring all of my flesh
Quietly, you hover over me
And I fight but it feels like wasted time
Say goodnight
I know that I’m swallowed in sea
We collide, colors that devour me
Just say goodnight
I’m already down
I cry
I'm already down
Already down
And I cry
Already down
And I try
And I try
But it feels like wasted…
Which is obviously incorrect haha
I LOVE Of Monsters And Men. They are truly the best band ever!
OfMonstersAndMenArmy. I love Of Monsters And Men
Truly the most beautiful song😍😍❤️❤️
A true artist that can render an audience speechless....
Goosebumps and tears.... simply stunning
Pefect vocal and melody, all perfect together to listen to on a rainy day.
Just got here by chance and I just loved it .. greetings from Brazil.