&#8220;As soon as I could stand, I was wandering over to the piano, wanting to play,&#8221; she remembers. &#8220;I started piano lessons aged six, then wrote my first piece of music aged seven, inspired by a storm outside.&#8221; By thirteen, she’d recorded a DIY album between classes at school.

Later in life, Evensen spent some time living in London and New York. &#8220;Whatever city I was in, I would find a piano. I needed to. Music has always helped me organise and understand how I’m feeling and release something that maybe I’ve been carrying within.&#8221;

Eydís Evensen

Eydís Evensen is a classically-trained pianist and post-classical composer from the Icelandic North. Her music reflects on the nature she grew up in and her years of travel abroad.

Icelandic Pianist and Composer

Fyrir Mikael

Bylur

Midnight Moon

Dagdraumur

Wandering II

Brotin

Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) 2022

Nieuwe Kerk

Combining a shared passion for music and an impressive resume working alongside fellow Icelandic luminaries Björk, Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds and Johann Johannson, the longtime friends began writing music together in 2013 and released their independent self-titled debut album Hugar.

Signed exclusively to Sony Music Masterworks, they’ve released their second longplayer Varða and the soundtrack album The Vasulka Effect &#8211; Music for the Motion Picture. Þjóðlög / Folk Songs marks their first release on XXIM Records, with their third full album projected for release later this year.

Hugar

Icelandic band Hugar, Bergur Þórisson and Pétur Jónsson, have forged a musical lane of their own with a genre-defying sound, mixing classical, electronic and post-rock elements.

Icelandic Band

volt

lost

Fagurt er í fjörðum

Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu

TheaterBar Heppel & Ettlich

Spielboden Kantine

Nordklang Festival 2022

Nordklang Festival

Neues Schauspiel Leipzig

Kantine am Berghain

New Cvernovka

Klub Re

BARdzo Bardzo

Nachtasyl

St Pancras Old Church

XXIM:EXPO is our exploratory series for outstanding young talents from across the whole spectrum of progressive instrumental music. Each instalment is given to one artist to curate his or her own ideal EP, sharing their own unique musical vision. With XXIM:EXPO we want to give young artists a platform, while mapping out all areas and developments of our wide area of music. 

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Jan '22

Eydís Evensen

Nieuwe Kerk - Groningen, Netherlands

Feb '22

Hugar

TheaterBar Heppel & Ettlich - Munich, Germany

Hugar

Spielboden Kantine - Dornbirn, Austria

Hugar

Nordklang Festival - Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Hugar

Neues Schauspiel Leipzig - Leipzig, Germany

Hugar

Kantine am Berghain - Berlin, Germany

Hugar

New Cvernovka - Okres Bratislava III, Slovakia

Hugar

Klub Re - Kraków, Poland

Hugar

BARdzo Bardzo - Warsaw, Poland

Hugar

Nachtasyl - Hamburg, Germany

Mar '22

Hugar

St Pancras Old Church - London, United Kingdom

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