Jónsi Announces New One-Off Collaboration with Carl Michael Von Hausswolff Called Dark Morph and Announces Debut Album for May 2019 Release

Jónsi and Carl Michael von Hausswolff have collaborated on an artistic and highly unique album, Dark Morph set to release on May 10 via Krunk (Sigur Ros label) and on vinyl via the Vinyl Factory. You can pre-order the album now. The music came to life last summer onboard the research vessel Dardanella in the seas around Fiji. The two focused on hydrophone and field recordings, sampled and manipulated during a trip driven by artistic exchange and collaboration.

Jónsi and Carl Michael recorded humpback whales in Tonga, bats in Fiji, and strange murmurations of shrimp in the waters between the dark morph’ of the islands. The album was assembled and mixed in Jamaica and has a bizarre, underwater and dark tone. The song leads you deeper down into the sea as you become one with whales. It’s almost like you are right next to the whales and creatures as they cry out and communicate. There is a hollow and odd sense of being so close to something much bigger. The eclectic sound is nothing short of genius.

The visual artist von Hausswolff states, “While we were on the boat I started to take the recordings, manipulate them and mutate them into drones or other types of musical functions-so we could use the sounds as instruments for building compositions. We decided, ‘Let’s try not to have them sounding too much like real sounds, let’s turn them into something else.’ When I had done some drones, some long tones out of a bird or something, I gave it to Jónsi and he started to peel off certain types of melodious things, and then play it to me. And then we started to just throw the ball back and forth,”

Sound artist and member of Sigur Ros, Jónsi and Carl Michael will play a live concert in Venice as part of the Biennale to coincide with the release of Dark Morph on May 10. There will also be a gallery installation work in the Ocean Space at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Dark Morph Track Listing:
1. SO(NG)QE
2. Ura Dardenella
3. Beka Tovuto
4. Tovuto
5. Kavura
6. Wai
7. Bani Manumanu
8. Beka Yalo

Kelly Tucker: Originally from Los Angeles, I grew up listening to all types of music. My first concert was Aerosmith with Skid Row, then moved on to concerts with Metallica, Lollapalooza, Guns N’ Roses, Soundgarden and more. One of my favorite shows of all time was when I was in college and someone took me to see the Allman Brothers play. I also scalped a ticket to see Pearl Jam and the amazing Eddie Vedder sing his heart out. My professional career started in 2000 at Nielsen Business Media where I was an assistant in a sales department and later got promoted to advertising account executive. When the recession hit in 2008 and the magazine was sold, I took a job at a call center and later got promoted to assistant to the CEO and COO of a global company. In 2017, I took a position at a pharmaceutical agency, and now currently responsible for coordinating meeting logistics for physicians and pharma reps throughout the United States. In my spare time, I work at Peace4Kids a non-profit in South Los Angeles and write screenplays in hopes to make a breakthrough.
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