Hjaltalín
Hjaltalín is an Icelandic band that has published three albums and enjoys a wide following in their homeland. Their second album, Terminal, was chosen as the album of the year at the 2010 Icelandic music awards. They have also played throughout Europe, most notably in Roskilde and Latitude festivals (2009) and at the Sziget festival (2010).
History
"The band Hjaltalín began as a one-act thing in the music scene of MH, a Reykjavík gymnasium (in 2004) that is renowned for harboring musicians. Things have evolved since then, personnel changed, and the band has actually changed course regarding musical styles in the meantime, although the band is certainly hard to categorize with influences ranging from modern indie rock to 60’s pop music to classical music."
Members
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Song From Incidental Music
by: HjaltalinShy thoughts and grave hands do wander as they're kissed.
From furrow to furrow, within the palms of amethyst.
How frail is your tongue, whose sound is gone sere?
Will it cleave a tasteful song?
The means are still unclear.
With shy thoughts and torn wide eyes.
Welladay, welladay!
Can't I beg of you to stay?
Pale lilies in her frail,
dark leaves in my hair.
With dark leers and a sigh,
is there an armour of snow?
For when I bore a troubled mind
wind whirls, to and fro,
with shy thoughts and scattered wee hands.
Turn away, turn away!
Can't I beg of you to stay?
A vague song of amethyst comes in vain, welladay!
Is there no place for you to stay?