Odin's Raven Magic | ||||
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Released | 4 December 2020 | |||
Recorded | 2004 | |||
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Length | 65:31 | |||
Language | Icelandic | |||
Label | Krúnk | |||
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Odin's Raven Magic is a 2002 orchestral setting to the Icelandic poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins. The composition was a collaboration by Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, Páll Guðmundsson and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir. It was premiered at the Barbican Centre in London on 21 April 2002[1] and then performed at the Reykjavík Arts Festival on 24 May 2002.[2][3] Video of the production can be viewed in the documentary Screaming Masterpiece or Gargandi snilld, by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon.
In October 2020, the band announced that a recording of Odin's Raven Magic would be released on December 4, 2020.[4]