Gjoll

January 30th, 2010 | music

There’s actually an umlaut over the o in Gjoll, but I’m working on the fly here and can’t reproduce it quickly on this keyboard. So, Gjoll. MySpace page. New doom ambience from Reykjavik. Longtime readers know I have a fondness for Icelandic music. Thanks to Bob Cluness for tipping me to them. You can find their work on eMusic and iTunes. Listen to this wintry ritual music:

10 Responses to “Gjoll”

Karohemd- January 30th, 2010 at 11:33 am

Ooh, I like that a lot, thank you. *heads off to emusic*
Oh, do you know the Aural Apocalypse podcast? Lots of music like this as well as some industrial/noise, neo-/apocalyptic folk and similar.

Warren Ellis- January 30th, 2010 at 11:41 am

I was listening to the new Aural Apocalypse just four hours ago…!

Rhonda Roo- January 30th, 2010 at 11:47 am

WOW.
That was quite an experience.
Thanks for sharing!

Strange_Bundle- January 30th, 2010 at 11:52 am

I’m sorta glad to know there are sub-genres of ambient music. People just put it to the side like it’s some weird mutant baby. Good to know.

Karohemd- January 30th, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Excellent! :D

Stephen- January 30th, 2010 at 2:03 pm

For your future reference: if there’s an umlaut and you can’t write it properly for whatever reason, it is fully acceptable (in german, and I would imagine it applies to icelandic as well) to place an e after the letter instead: Gjoell is the same thing as Gjöll.

Ricardo- January 31st, 2010 at 9:47 am

Brian Frost is another great artist from Iceland…

Ester Anna- February 1st, 2010 at 4:53 am

I´m Icelandic and I am a fan of yours Mr. Ellis !

Raggi- February 1st, 2010 at 10:03 pm

Correction. It’s “Ben Frost” and his latest album is a fucking masterpiece.

Anonymas- February 21st, 2010 at 4:54 pm

Hold Alt + 0246:

Alt + 0214:

Unless you’re one of those Mac people… kind of like cat people but without pissing in a box. You cultural institution, you.