Reviews
You can read reviews about concerts and Huggun (2002):
Kitchen Motors Kippi Kaninus : Huggun (ICE,2002)****
(from http://progressive.homestead.com/prog13.html)
Kippi Kaninus is digital composer Gudmundor Vignir Karlsson who creates subtle, varied multilayered and interwoven evolutions of soft electronica, with a wide range of expressions, with melodic evolutions, lots of soft clicks percussion, with use of samples of clocks, cows, objects used for percussive sounds, and manipulated voices. I think I heard some acoustic instruments too like bass, piano, xylophone,..The whole mix works like a multi-dimensional soundtrack. Beautiful music !
Happens secretly:
KIPPI KANÍNUS HAPPENS SECRETLY -
they really do dig me ; )
(from: http://www.grapevine.is/undirflokkar.aspx?id=535)
A travelling California musician in Iceland to visit the home of Múm
and Sigur Rós highly recommended this new release from 12 Tónar
to the Grapevine. Some of the chords played on MIDI and other contraptions
sound like the odd takes on sustained chords that Sigur Rós employ
so well. Beyond that, we have to disqualify ourselves from reviewing this
album, as we hated it so irrationally that we feel guilty. During the thirty-minute
mocking of Happens Secretly, we had an extended comparison of this album with
“Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control” an MIT experiment
in which hamsters played music randomly. The hamsters won out big time.
Worth nothing. Costs four beers.
Private Kippi Kaninus : Happens Secretely (ICE,2005)****
(from http://progressive.homestead.com/prog13.html)
Here Kippi Kaninus has worked out a nice musical composition in different parts. The first and some of the last tracks especially show the talent I recognized from the 2002 album, to build up multilayered compositions with attention to sound combinations, both acoustic and electronic. “The Comfort of my Eyes” for instance has a use of acoustic found percussion mixed with echoing touches on amplified strings, mixed with a child’s voice with an ear-to-sound. This is further on mixed with fender Rhodes like keyboards, more electronica and complex programmed rhythms. In a way I find this kind of blend very unique and successful for Kippi Kaninus. Also on the 6th track, “Yfirskin”, Kippi Kaninus shows this talent well of manipulating and blending similar inspirations. Here the electronica gives multlayered pulses to the track. Some electronic organ is mixed with some recording of Middle Eastern singing and playing. Thereto is added and interwoven some acoustic found percussion, mixed sounds and strings. In between these two tracks, the other compositions are more minimal with more recognisable sources (like on "This note is - D". Often a fender Rhodes kind of keyboard with electronic rhythms are used with looped strings (like on “Whyshouldtheyounghavefaith"), or with some broken-into-irregular-pieces recordings of organ. Such organ recordings are used to make a more rhythmic track of “new sounds for an old instrument” on “A soft living thing”. Strings, keyboards and organ with irregular loops can also be heard on “This note is –D”. This church organ element is a red wire through all the tracks. Also on “Purer, softer, deader?”, where we also hear some spoken word as an extra touch. The last track, “Refrain” adapts this organ recording idea with some earlier used ideas of arrangements like keyboard playing, to make a nice conclusion.
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