Kalli
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Singer/songwriter from Reykjavik, Iceland, and former lead singer of Without Gravity Artist Website KalliMusic.com |
LAST TRAIN HOME
- Icelandic Music Awards "Album of the Year" Nomination
- Ras 2 (Radio Iceland) - "Album of the Week" ; "9/10 Stars"
- "Overall a stunning piece of work" - Never Enough Notes
- "Achingly beautiful with so many layers ... what a treasure" - Maverick
- "Like sunsets and rainbows for your ears ... beautifully mesmerizing" - More Than the Music
- "A beautifully crafted folk/country crossover ... the emotion it evokes is indescribable" - Room 13
- "Perhaps the most unconventional Icelandic release in recent times" - Drowned in Sound
- "I could go on about every track, but at some point you just have to hear it for yourself" - Music & More
- "The Eagles would be proud" - Independent
Selected Film / TV
"Smoke", "Dark Horse",
"Shine on Me"
• 9 Edda Award noms.,
incl. Best Film
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"Waterfall" - closing song
César Award Winner
(France)
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Music Scoring
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"Cloud in Your Sky"
• Peoples, Teens & Kids
Choice Award nominations
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"River of Darkness"
• 3 Emmy, 4 People's Choice,
3 Image, 6 ASCAP,
2 BMI, 7 Young Artist
Awards/Nominations
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Biography (Last Train Home)
When the storied music worlds of Iceland and Nashville unexpectedly join together, one might hope for something wonderfully provocative and distinctive. That is exactly what one gets and then some with Last Train Home, the new solo album from Kalli, the former front man and voice beautiful of the Reykjavik-based band Without Gravity.
Kalli creates lush, atmospheric soundscapes throughout each of his albums, with sweeping, downtempo arrangements and a mesmerizing voice that are as emotional as they are transcending. His writing is personal and sparse, letting the imagery and music carry equal if not more weight, all befitting of his beautiful, isolated homeland.
World’s collided when these dark and hushed Icelandic textures met the wooden front-porch of American music. Realizing a dream to travel and record in Nashville, Kalli took his alt-country ideas to their source and teamed-up with producer Kurt Storey and A-list musicians such as Lloyd Green on pedal steel, Guthrie Trapp on guitar, J.D. Blair on drums and a host of other Nashville favorites who no doubt were also getting their first exposure to a vastly different musical approach. It’s a glorious thing for musicians and fans alike when artists step out of their comfort zone to try something far different from their norm, and then it works, magically well.
The result is Last Train Home. A “stunning piece of work which is emotional, understated and contemporary all at once… simply perfect for taking you away to your own idyllic place in your mind” (Never Enough Notes, UK). “It’s like sunsets and rainbows for your ears…beautifully mesmerizing” (More Than the Music, UK), and is “a warm, emotional album…achingly beautiful with so many layers. Sounds like a long-lost Poco album from 1975. What a treasure” (Maverick, UK).
Released last year by UK-based One Little Indian and a nominee for Best Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, Last Train Home is being re-released through a partnership between Kalli, Reykjavik’s Smekkleysa/Bad Taste Records and San Francisco label Broken Arrow. The album follows Without Gravity’s critically acclaimed debut Tenderfoot, and fully expands on the country-acoustic influences found on Kalli’s first solo release While the City Sleeps.
Preceding the album release (but not on the album) is the new single "Road Trip" featuring Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Kirsten Proffit.
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When the storied music worlds of Iceland and Nashville unexpectedly join together, one might hope for something wonderfully provocative and distinctive. That is exactly what one gets and then some with Last Train Home, the new solo album from Kalli, the former front man and voice beautiful of the Reykjavik-based band Without Gravity.
Kalli creates lush, atmospheric soundscapes throughout each of his albums, with sweeping, downtempo arrangements and a mesmerizing voice that are as emotional as they are transcending. His writing is personal and sparse, letting the imagery and music carry equal if not more weight, all befitting of his beautiful, isolated homeland.
World’s collided when these dark and hushed Icelandic textures met the wooden front-porch of American music. Realizing a dream to travel and record in Nashville, Kalli took his alt-country ideas to their source and teamed-up with producer Kurt Storey and A-list musicians such as Lloyd Green on pedal steel, Guthrie Trapp on guitar, J.D. Blair on drums and a host of other Nashville favorites who no doubt were also getting their first exposure to a vastly different musical approach. It’s a glorious thing for musicians and fans alike when artists step out of their comfort zone to try something far different from their norm, and then it works, magically well.
The result is Last Train Home. A “stunning piece of work which is emotional, understated and contemporary all at once… simply perfect for taking you away to your own idyllic place in your mind” (Never Enough Notes, UK). “It’s like sunsets and rainbows for your ears…beautifully mesmerizing” (More Than the Music, UK), and is “a warm, emotional album…achingly beautiful with so many layers. Sounds like a long-lost Poco album from 1975. What a treasure” (Maverick, UK).
Released last year by UK-based One Little Indian and a nominee for Best Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards, Last Train Home is being re-released through a partnership between Kalli, Reykjavik’s Smekkleysa/Bad Taste Records and San Francisco label Broken Arrow. The album follows Without Gravity’s critically acclaimed debut Tenderfoot, and fully expands on the country-acoustic influences found on Kalli’s first solo release While the City Sleeps.
Preceding the album release (but not on the album) is the new single "Road Trip" featuring Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Kirsten Proffit.
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