The Lighthouse Project

Great disc--I use it for treatment music in an acupuncture clinic...it is my way of getting Sigur Ros in the building. Mostly mellow...calming stuff

This band is the best. Great music for a candle lit bath. Highly recommended, nicely executed layers. I hope this group never stops making music

For those unfamiliar with Amiina, they are an Icelandic outfit built around the core of four female multi-instrumentalists who, in recent years, have added a couple of additional members to their personnel. On this, their third album (or really more of an EP), they return to basics in more ways than one: it is a live (but studio-quality) recording featuring just the original quartet with a stripped-back sound.Gone are the electronic noodles and glitched beats that usually underpin Amiina's (mainly) instrumental offerings, and to the fore come chiming harps and bowed saws (yes saws!). The end result is a record that feels incredibly intense yet spacious, with each instrument able to resonate unchallenged in its own sound spectrum.Completed as part of a project to capture the spirit and mood of lighthouses (yes, I know it sounds pretentious, but go with it) this is a rather gentle and undemanding offering that is, however, never anything less than totally beguiling. There is real serenity and beauty in this record that feels like the band have really connected with their roots. There is a lesson in this for many: less 'cleverness' often results in less clutter and more clarity.A really lovely Siren call from Scandinavian shores, and the only reason it doesn't get five stars is because (at less than 30 minutes) it is all over too soon.ps. The packaging for the CD is magnificent too.

Gift

Not their best.

We heard a few tracks from this on RTE Lyricfm, and each time I asked "hat's that?" By the third track my wife was correctly identifying "that's Amiina again. Distinctive music.

Ho conosciuto le Amiina dalle loro collaborazioni con i Sigur Ros, i loro violini e le arpe mi hanno fatto scattare qualcosa....adesso non ne posso più fare a meno, la loro musica mi coinvolge ogni volta che la ascolto....consiglio vivamente l'acquisto.