Yagya - A Very Long Daydream

Yagya - A Very Long Daydream

Taken from the album, Will I Dream During The Process? (Sending Orbs 2006)


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Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson (Yagya)...
Icelandic producer Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson) has been creating atmospheres through melody and sounds for more then a decade. A definitive member of the Thule Musik collective, Yagya also is known for his work as half of Sanasol and also the famed Plastic.

A student of computer science at the University of Iceland Yagya spends his free time creating music on his computer. He concentrates on atmospheres and moods and tries to reflect the beauty of the world around him in the sounds of his music. He seeks influence in the works of Gas, Philip Glass, Basic Channel, Brian Eno and anything that is true to itself and its ideas. Yagya concentrates on the softer side of music and avoids heavy rhythms. He finds harmony and beauty in the simple sounds of nature and wants his music to flow naturally through the listener.
-last.fm.

Yagya MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/steiniplastik



The Label, Sending Orbs...
Label run by Wouter Eising, Reimer Eising (Kettel) and Kristian Peters.

Sending Orbs is a Dutch label which releases electronic music. Sending Orbs feels that all electronic music of high quality should be heard, irrespective of the style.
-Discogs.

Sending Orbs MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/sendingorbs
Website: http://www.sendingorbs.com/



The Photographer, Ásmundur Þorkelsson...
I've had a fascination with visual arts ever since I can remember. As a child, when looking at paintings and photographs, I became immersed in them. I daydreamed about running around in the landscapes, entering buildings and walking the paths depicted in those images. I soon felt the urge to create some images of my own and started drawing and painting; a pastime I still regularly turn to.

From an early age I enjoyed paging through books about art and admired the paintings of many painters, ranging from the Renaissance Masters to contemporaries as well as the few painters working in my home town of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Nowadays I find inspiration for my photography in the works of painters like Edvard Munch, Odd Nerdrum, Lucian Freud and J.M.V. Turner, as well as in many of the classic and contemporary photographers.

When digital photography became available to me I started taking images as a reference for my paintings. I first visited flickr.com in 2005 and saw the wonderful things many amateur photographers were doing. It sparked the idea, that maybe my reference photos could stand alone as photographs. I posted a few of those old photos, which I had intended to use for painting, and started taking more images for my flickr page, which can be found at: flickr.com/photos/asmundur/

Prints are available for sale: http://www.photoshelter.com/

If you are interested in HDR images you might want to check out my new blog: http://hdri.wordpress.com/

My new photoblog: asmundur.shutterchance.com/
-Flickr Profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/asmundur/

Photo Sets/Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/asmundur...

~ from SilverdaleDubs