Odin's Raven Magic | |
Type: | soundtrack |
Artist: | Sigur Rós, Steindór Andersen, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir |
Cover: | Sigur Rós - Odin's Raven Magic.png |
Recorded: | 2004 |
Genre: | |
Length: | 65:31 |
Language: | Icelandic |
Label: | Krúnk |
Prev Title: | Kveikur |
Prev Year: | 2013 |
Next Title: | Átta |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Chronology: | Sigur Rós |
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]
Adapted from MusicBrainz.[5]