Eignast Jeppa (20th anniversary reissue)

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Release Date: 2021-06-01

Label: Vogor Records

It´s with great pleasure to offer this record as a triple vinyl. Featuring the original album that was recorded on a 4-track cassette recorder in early 2001 along with leftover material from those sessions. Also included is the whole album re-recorded in 2020 along with 6 new songs that are reworks of older ideas that never saw the light of day.

“Eignast jeppa” was solely recorded and produced by Ólafur Josephsson, the founding member and brainchild of Stafrænn Hákon. The album is a clear example of how creative he turned out to by in the start of his musical career. The song ideas on the album are therefore more like experiments that were recorded instantly when written, leaving the recordings sounding were fragile but fresh at the same time.

The minimalist approach to his music it came as a breath of fresh air when the album appeared on the shelves in Reykjavík record shops at the time. The word quickly got around amongst the icelandic underground music scene and the misleading name of “Stafrænn Hákon” (translates “Digital Hákon”) indicated that an electronic artist had been born but on the contrary, the exact opposite was the case here. He was working in the analog domain with no digitized sounds... more