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Released
  
September 2012

Language
  
Icelandic

Artist
  
Ásgeir Trausti

Label
  
Sena

Length
  
39:58

Dýrð í dauðaþögn (2012)
  
In the Silence (2013)

Release date
  
11 September 2012

Genre
  
Indie folk

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Recorded
  
Hljóðrita Studios, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

Producer
  
Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson

Indie folk albums
  
In the Silence, My Head Is an Animal, Castaways and Cutouts, Beautiful Lies, Letters to Lost Loves

D r dau a gn


Dýrð í dauðaþögn is the debut album by the Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir Trausti. The album was recorded in three or four months in the summer of 2012. Most of the original Icelandic lyrics were written by Ásgeir's father.

Contents

The album reached number thirty-four in Denmark, and number one in Iceland where it has since been awarded triple platinum certification. It became the best selling debut album ever in Iceland. It is also reported to be owned by one in every ten people in Iceland.

As well as being nominated for the Best Album of the Year award at the 2012 Nordic Music Prize, the album won the Album of the Year at the 2012 Icelandic Music Awards and it received a Kraumur Award.

In the Silence, an English language version of the album, translated by the American musician John Grant, was released online on 28 October, 2013, and physically on January 27, 2014. Only the vocal part is different from Dýrð í dauðaþögn.

sgeir d r dau a gn lyric video


Track listing

All tracks written by Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson and Einar Georg Einarsson except where noted.

Personnel

Musicians
  • Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson – vocals (all tracks), backing vocals (all tracks), guitar (all tracks), bass guitar (tracks 6, 9, 10), keyboards (tracks 1–9), piano (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10)
  • Sigurður Guðmundsson – keyboards (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9), piano (track 2), bass guitar (tracks 2, 3, 4), backing vocals (track 3), harmonium (track 5)
  • Kristinn Snær Agnarsson – drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9), percussion (track 3)
  • Þorsteinn Einarsson – guitar (tracks 2, 3), backing vocals (tracks 3, 10)
  • Samúel Jón Samúelsson – trombone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9)
  • Kjartan Hákonarson – trumpet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9)
  • Óskar Guðjónsson – saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7, 9)
  • Valdimar Kolbeinn Sigurjónsson – bass guitar (track 1)
  • Ingi Björn Ingasson – bass guitar (track 4)
  • Recording personnel
  • Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson – producer, recording, mixing
  • Sigurður Guðmundsson – recording
  • Kristinn Snær Agnarsson – recording
  • Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson – recording
  • Other personnel
  • Svarti Hrinhurinn – cover art
  • Jónína de la Rosa – photography
  • Bobby Breiðholt – design
  • Songs

    1Hærra3:25
    2Dýrð í dauðaþögn3:56
    3Sumargestur3:51

    References

    Dýrð í dauðaþögn Wikipedia