Wide Trees
The night is dark. The northern lights visit us, and from the pine forest, we catch a glimpse of them while the tree tops sway slowly, carried by the wind.

Slow Night
The very few hours of daylight during the day are disorienting. They make you lose the sense of the regular passage of time in an endless darkness that blends with the Blue Hour and the northern lights. The body and mind slow down day by day and settle into a state of focus mixed with lethargy.

Close
The field recording at “Holt í Önundarfirði” (a pier on a beach amidst the fjords) merges with the Fender Rhodes in a dreamlike and dystopian lullaby.

On the Top of the Mountain (Prepared Piano)
At the top of Mount Bolafjåk, where the largest Icelandic observatory is located, the wind blows fiercely. Everything is frozen. You are surrounded by the black sea and distant fjords. Some giant ravens struggle to fly. The snowstorm engulfs us, and in an instant, we are lost in the white, with no sense of time or space around us. Our hands are freezing despite the gloves. We try to return to the jeep, walking through the snow that reaches almost to our knees.

Ground Fissure
Iceland is the land of fire and ice, in a constant precarious balance where nature still has the power to define and shape human life more than in other places. A land where extremes have coexisted since the dawn of time. The tremor and roar of active volcanoes blend with the crystalline tinkling of water in ice caves.

Stone’s Descension (Prepared Piano)
The fjords, plunging into the sea, disappear into the distant low clouds. If you listen, you can hear the disintegration of rocks and ice falling steeply from the cliffs.

Fugata
The rigor and form of counterpoint blend with a modern pianistic approach without barriers or boundaries, where Bachian rules dissolve, making way for spontaneous improvisation.

Ancient Path (Prepared Piano)
An ancient ballad. During one of our many field recording excursions, we ventured to places where human feet have rarely tread. The Westfjords are pristine, wild, and much more dangerous than the well-known tourist Iceland (the Ring Road). Everything was white, the snowstorm almost obscuring our steps. The only sounds were those of nature. It felt like being outside of time.

Die Dämmerung (Teil I - Teil II)
This piece incorporates all the influences of 20th-century music, from Wagner to Brahms to Schönberg and Cage. Seven minutes and forty-five seconds of spontaneous improvisation, where the reinterpretation of musical languages undergoes a contemporary elaboration of what the piano has been.

The Glacier
Ice caves and frozen waterfalls create the imagery for this piece, which unites all the characteristics and techniques used in the album: Fender with effects, prepared piano, and a Broadwood piano