Icelandic postmodern classical music artist Gabríel Ólafs composes prodigiously beautiful short pieces for solo piano and chamber ensemble. Lush and heavily cinematic, Ólafs' debut album, Absent Minded, appeared in 2019, with the emotional and transformative Solon Islandus arriving in 2022. Regional folk songs inspired his 2023 effort Lullabies for Piano and Cello.
Born and raised in a small, isolated suburb of Reykjavík, he began to study classical piano at the age of five, but annoyed his teachers by going off on tangents and putting his own twist on the music. Later he s...