Another year is in the books. They are just speeding by these days, which I suspect is a combination of me getting older and some kind of temporal distortion caused by COVID that seemed to change how time is experienced. Regardless, it was a good year in the Life In The Vinyl Lane household with […]
Tag: Kiasmos
Record Shopping – Faroe Islands Style
Tórshavn, the capital city of the Faroe Islands, is probably the remotest place I’ve ever been record shopping. I may have been to a store in a smaller town (estimated 2024 population – 14,099; the nation as a whole comes in at around 55,000), but considering how off-the-beaten-path it is, sitting in the Atlantic roughly […]
Kiasmos – “II” (2024)
Kiasmos are the duo Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen, and together they create some of the most subtly beautiful electronic music your ears will ever hear. Their first release was as part of a split 12″ with Rival Consoles way back in 2009 and they were fairly busy in the mid-2010s, putting out their debut […]