Born and raised in the hamlet of Laugarbakki (population, 40) in the wilds of Iceland, Ásgeir comes from a large family of musicians. Last year, at just 20 years of age he became an overnight sensation in his domestic music scene with the September release of Dyrd í dauðathogn breaking all records to become Iceland’s fastest and biggest selling debut album by a home grown artist, outselling even Bjork and Sigur Ros. Staggeringly, one in ten of the Icelandic population now own the album.
 
The English language version will be released worldwide as In The Silence on 28th October.
  
Produced by Gudmundur Kristinn Jonsson, in Iceland the unusual poetry of Dyrd í dauðathogn has attracted almost as much attention as the music itself, in part because it was mostly written by Ásgeir’s 72 year old father. Combining both electronic and organic elements, the songs themselves are all Ásgeir: light and airy, inset with his distinctively melancholic voice, their vibrancy elevates his appeal way beyond the folktronica tag.

Asgeir to niespełna 20 letni artysta, dzięki wydanej w sierpniu płycie zatytułowanej „Dyrd í dauðathogn”, został okrzyknięty największym objawieniem islandzkiej sceny muzycznej. Jego pierwszy album pobił rekordy popularności, stając się najszybciej i najlepiej sprzedającym debiutem na rodzimym rynku, przebijając takich artystów jak Björk czy Sigur Rós. Praktycznie co dziesiąty Islandczyk posiada płytę Ásgeira w swojej kolekcji.

Produkcją debiutanckiego krążka zajął się Gudmundur Kristinn Jonsso, a poetycko brzmiące teksy napisał 72-letni ojciec Ásgeira.


Born and raised in the hamlet of Laugarbakki (population, 40) in the wilds of Iceland, Ásgeir comes from a large family of musicians. Last year, at just 20 years of age he became an overnight sensation in his domestic music scene with the September release of Dyrd í dauðathogn breaking all records to become Iceland’s fastest and biggest selling debut album by a home grown artist, outselling even Bjork and Sigur Ros. Staggeringly, one in ten of the Icelandic population now own the album.
 
 
Produced by Gudmundur Kristinn Jonsson, in Iceland the unusual poetry of Dyrd í dauðathogn has attracted almost as much attention as the music itself, in part because it was mostly written by Ásgeir’s 72 year old father. Combining both electronic and organic elements, the songs themselves are all Ásgeir: light and airy, inset with his distinctively melancholic voice, their vibrancy elevates his appeal way beyond the folktronica tag.