Found Songs

In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ – recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions from fans via Flickr, this modern release awakens memories of a tradition that seemed lost in the digital age we live in. With the next full-length release due this winter, Ólafur conceived ‘Found Songs’ as a way to collate several lost and found musical sketches and ideas in a ‘very challenging, but fun’ series. The experiment offers its listeners an intimate insight into Ólafur Arnalds’ creative world. ‘The songs will be different from what’s on my albums; they will be short, mostly just made up from piano. Something to keep me going…’