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Happy Earthday

by Bjarki

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pC Soothing glitch-electronica that is rarely made by artists, especially these days. Whole album's an auroratic journey, coasting on distilled sunbeams and held by together by gentle snowflakes. I don't usually namedrop other artists, but if you enjoyed the works of Boards of Canada and christ., you'll feel right at home here.

Looking forward to next release! Hoping they do more in the vein of "Two-brainedness" and "Healthy Texting"! Favorite track: Healthy Texting.
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Alan Andrade Cereal Rudestorm gave me goosebumps. The full album is a soft delicate trip. Thanks Bjarki. Favorite track: Cereal Rudestorm.
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technoviking666 Bbbbeautiful album. Whenever I listen 2 this I feel a stronger conNection 2 my alien ancestors :~))))) Favorite track: Cereal Rudestorm.
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    A1 - Blessuð Börnin
    A2 - Alone in Sandkassi
    A3 - ( . )_( . )
    A4 - Two-brainedness
    B1 - AN6912
    B2 - Healthy Texting
    B3 - Bheiv_sheep

    C1 - ANa5
    C2 - Cereal Rudestorm
    C3 - Salty Grautinn
    C4 - Sprinq 3-2
    D1 - Plastic Memories
    D2 - Lita og Leira
    D3 - Happy Screams
    D4 - UXI

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    E4 - ***
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    F2 - ***
    F3 - ***

    G1 - ***
    G2 - ***
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    G4 - ***
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An expressive electronic album with the kind of positive, stirring resolve that leaves you feeling utterly comforted, Bjarki’s new album ‘Happy Earthday’ is influenced by his home country Iceland as well as environmental issues.

Having released bodies of work on трип and his own label bbbbbb, Bjarki views ‘Happy Earthday’ as his proper debut album; he feels it’s a more coherent and conceptual body of work that finds him offering up music he never thought he would release. The album contains very personal material written over the last decade during fragile moments of introspection. Says Bjarki on the album:
“You can consider this album as a window into my head and even my soul. It reflects my thoughts at the time I made this music. For me it is a bit odd, sharing it like this with the world. As a very private person I am not used to open my door so completely, it can be a little scary for me. What if … I tend to think, expecting all kinds of everything.

Releasing this album is also a kind of a farewell to music I made in a certain period in my life. It’s like I’m saying farewell to a grown-up child which is now ready to leave.

When facing the world, the music undergoes many changes from my point of view. It becomes global, ceased to be obeyed by my thoughts. Now it’s yours, the folks that listens, thinks, speculates about it, consumes and develops a private opinion. Not one, or two, but many, even thousands. And your opinion is equally as ‘right’ as mine, or maybe more.

That’s how art is. When published, the understanding or opinion is even more of the consumers than the artist. He has lost his control over it and for me that is the scary part. Again, what if …

My music is under a heave influence from my inheritance as an Icelander, my upbringing, my family, surroundings and of course the music and artists I have listened to all my life. That’s how things are. 

Maybe you can feel the melancholy of my life, the nature overall. Volcanos and the lava flowing down the slopes, the frightening noise of the ocean beating the land, the strong wind in the mountain passes and a glimpse of the first ray of the rising sun over the glacier. Now that is the dawn of a new day.”

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released February 15, 2019

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