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Hið s​í​ð​sta lag 2013 rework

from various mixes by gímaldin

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Apocalyptic cults very often come to a point where they have to reinvent themselves, same goes with songs with titles like "The Last Song". Like Sandra Bernhardt and The Marx Brothers, one way of dealing with it is acting like that the "last" is no definite designator, point in time or action, that is; last from where? forwards or backwards? up or down? I shouldn´t really need to explain it in a world, which is fast becoming meaningless, there is no last in digital or cosmic replay. Nothing lasts!

But note on the music outward, The Last Song was, as many others, composed as a troubador song in 1995, but as it turned out, neither was it the last song, nor did the world end in 1999, so the song was reinvented shortly thereafter, as an orchestral song, in 2001 there was a version featuring percussions by Þórdís Claessen, and additional guitar work by Hallvarður Ásgeirsson and Elvar Hellvar Sævarsson. The world, as a material entity, still did not end.

In 2013 the artist was in Þingeyri on an artist residency, and the world did still not end, so a third version was made to accompany this yet another prelude to the end of the world. Befitting a cold digital world, the artist chose to use as little of live performance as possible, so tracks by the musicians mentioned above are unintelligible (still, you are here with us and we are many).
So, a lengthy introduction to a short end. Enjoy

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from various mixes, released September 23, 2013
additional playing by
Þórdís Claessen
Hallvarður Ásgeirsson
Elvar Sævarsson

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gímaldin Reykjavík, Iceland

Electro-midi-pop, Very alt-country, Folk Rock, , Anarchy metall, and so on

Started out as a new wave rocker, turned troubador, turned electro-ambient, then folk, spoken word, then country-ethno-barding, then remixer and back into rock, then blues and some dubbing. Examples of most phases on main site: www.gimaldin.com ... more

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