Echoes Podcast Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen

Ambient Chamber Music Dream Pop: Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen - The Echoes Podcast

In the Echoes Podcast, a meeting of ambient classical and pure pop when I talk with Ólafur Arnalds and Loreen. Ólafur Arnalds you know from his deeply atmospheric ambient chamber music. Loreen is a Swedish singer who is huge in Europe, where she has won the Eurovision Song Contest twice. They get together on an introspective EP  called Sages.

Ólafur Arnalds: I connected emotionally with it and her voice and her sensibilities in how she actually writes and performs her stuff. It felt very almost animalistic, spiritualistic.

Ólafur Arnalds has been a staple on Echoes since his second album, For Now I Am Winter. He’s had multiple CD of the Month albums, played live on the show three times, and been interviewed even more, for his own music and for his electronic duo with Jonas Rasmussen, Kiasmos. Ólafur is one of the leading figures in ambient chamber music. Loreen is in another world. She’s a powerhouse singer more attuned to EDM-inflected pop songs, and has a wild stage persona. She won the Eurovision Song Contest not once, but twice. But they found common ground on an EP  called Sages. I talk to them about this small, but beautiful work, and loved it even more after.

OLAFUR ARNALDS & LOREEN FEATURE PLAYLIST

Artist – Song – Album
Ólafur Arnalds – Only the Winds – For Now I Am Winter
Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen – The Sound of Breathing – Sages
Ólafur Arnalds – Ypsilon – Re:Member
Loreen – Tattoo – Tattoo (Single)
Kiasmos – Flown – Burst
Ólafur Arnalds – Still, Sound – Some Kind of Peace
Ólafur Arnalds – Hægt, kemur ljósið (Slowly, Comes the Light) – And They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
Loreen – Euphoria – Heal
Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen – The Sound of Breathing – Sages
Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen – Unknowing – Sages
Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen – Opening – Sages
Ólafur Arnalds & Talos- Signs – A Dawning
Ólafur Arnalds & Talos- Bedrock – A Dawning
Ólafur Arnalds & Loreen – Opening – Sages