Best New Bands » olafur arnalds http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Composers Ólafur Arnalds + Nils Frahm To Perform at LA’s First Unitarian http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/composers-%c3%b3lafur-arnalds-nils-frahm-to-perform-at-la-s-first-unitarian/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/breaking-news/composers-%c3%b3lafur-arnalds-nils-frahm-to-perform-at-la-s-first-unitarian/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:27:24 +0000   Iceland composer Ólafur Arnalds and Berlin-based contemporary composer Nils Frahm (above), along with the German pianist and composer known as Hauschka, are performing this Tuesday, October 1st at the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. Frahm’s string of west coast concerts are to pre-promote his album, Spaces, due Nov. 19 on Erased Tapes, and

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  2. Concert Review: Ólafur Arnalds Makes Classical Cool at the Echoplex On Friday night, I headed down to the Echoplex in Los Angeles to check out Ólafur Arnalds, an Icelandic musician.  I only got lost about 12 times this time and drove in about 15 circles before I found it (an all-time...
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  1. Concert Review: Ólafur Arnalds Makes Classical Cool at the Echoplex On Friday night, I headed down to the Echoplex in Los Angeles to check out Ólafur Arnalds, an Icelandic musician.  I only got lost about 12 times this time and drove in about 15 circles before I found it (an all-time...
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