The music on this album shares a captivating sense of landscape and texture. While I quickly tire of repetitive "minimalist" music that could be easily repurposed into a movie score, this is much more than that: constantly evolving and absorbing, full of shifting details, and often dark. I've been to Iceland, and there's a lot in this that feels like what I saw there. I've listened to this via the Naxos streaming service, but I'm impatiently waiting to get my hands on the blu-ray surround disc, especially for the shivery last track: "Dreaming" by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir.

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