Together with the german writer and director Falk Richter I take the stage this December in these reading/concert events: 03.12.2015 Schauspiel Frankfurt 05.12.2015 Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin 06.12.2015 Schauspielhaus Vienna Falk is presenting a collection of his latest works, some of which I have had the joy of writing music to, over the last few… Read more »
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Falk Richter’s ‘For the Disconnected Child’ in Berlin
My dear Friends! Long time no see For the past 7 weeks I’ve been working in Berlin, on an opera-meets-theatre-meets-Helgi-Jonsson-piece by Falk Richter with Berliner Staatsoper and Schaubuehne. Here’s the press release: Together with the Staatsoper, we’re presenting an exceptional performance: In his new project, Falk Richter combines his own texts with compositions of new…
The show at Vega in Copenhagen on November 2nd, 2011 was recorded and is available HERE.Live Recording from Copenhagen
Copenhagen and Aarhus in November
Helgi will play two shows with full band in Denmark on the Big Spring Autumn Tour. November 2nd – COPENHAGEN – STORE VEGA BUY TICKETS November 3rd – AARHUS – VOXHALL BUY TICKETS ALSO check out all the dates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the tour calendar.
“Big Spring” Released This Month
The Big Spring is ready to be released. This month in Germany and Denmark. Next month Iceland and Austria follows. Twelve tracks, recorded in Reykjavík and Los Angeles with Thorvaldur Thor Thorvaldsson, Joel Shearer, Jonathan Estes and Tina Dickow.
The New Single – Darkest Part of Town
With only weeks to the release of my album Big Spring you can now listen to (and buy, of course) the single “Darkest Part of Town”. I hope you’ll dig it! From this Bandcamp page you can so easily embed the song on your facebook, twitter.. pages and help me spread the Big word. For… Read more »
Helgi Jonsson – Autumn Tour
18.10. Dresden – Societätstheater 19.10. Erlangen – E-Werk 20.10. München – 59to1 21.10. A-Lustenau – Carinisaal 22.10. A-Graz – PPC 23.10. A-Wien – WUK 25.10. CH-Zürich – Exil 26.10. Heidelberg – Enjoy Jazz Festival @ Karlstorbahnhof 27.10. Wiesbaden – Schlachthof 28.10. Köln – Studio 672 29.10. Münster – Gleis 22 31.10. Hamburg – Molotow 01.11…. Read more »
Careful People in the caravan.
Vincent Moon et Petites Planètes
French film maker, Vincent Moon, visited me in my studio in Seltjarnarnes just as I was starting to write my upcoming album, “Big Spring”. What you see here is an improvisation which over the next months turned into the album’s closing track “The Lake”. We filmed at the light house on the island Grótta in… Read more »
Volcano
Once again nature is making life a little bit more difficult for us. I was supposed to leave Iceland today, for a string of shows with Tina and myself starting tomorrow in Aarhus. I’m hoping to at least make my performance at the SPOT festival on the 27th of May.
Listen to Big Spring here:
Listen to Blindfolded
Listen to “..Childhood”
