Árstíðir

Mega Man II

On a 14 hour train ride between Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Hallgrímur and Karl passed the time by playing the old 8-bit video game Mega Man 2 on Karl’s laptop. With time to kill Karl transcribed the theme song for the level Dr. Wily’s Castle, and arranged it for a string quintet on the spot.

 

 

 
A few days later, while we were performing with the string players from iamthemorning in St. Petersburg, the string players decided to perform the piece at the beginning of our second set.

Intense Petrozavodsk

After riding on a train for 14 hours, we finally arrived in Petrozavodsk, where we had managed to sell out the Philharmonia.

Our arrival had attracted a lot of local media buzz, and during our sound check we were interviewed by three different television networks.

Reunited with our dear friends from iamthemorning, we performed part of our show with a string quintet, receiving standing ovations and flowers from the spectators, including the famous singer Leo Sevets.

 

Standing ovations in Moscow

Aging rock veterans Nazareth were playing in the anointed concert hall of the International House of Music in Moscow yesterday. They say “love hurts,” but the loving vibes saturating the air in our part of the building was anything but painful.

For the first time since last year we were reunited with our friends from iamthemorning. Their incredibly talented string players Filip, Ilya and Alina joined us on stage for our second set, transforming our string duo into a string quintet. We premiered several songs from our new album on the concert which earned us two standing ovations from the crowd.