
Valgeir Sigurdsson, who in 2006 founded Ben Frost’s label home, Icelandic-based Bedroom Community, is not one of those people that hold their face into every camera.
His music and productions, however, should be familiar to anyone who has not been hiding under a pop-cultural rock for the past 15 years. Because he not only produces the albums of his friends and colleagues, such as Ben Frost, Daniel Bjarnason or Wildbirds & Peacedrums, but also international big shots like Bonnie “Prince” Billy, CocoRosie, Kate Nash or fellow Icelander Björk, who in 1997 made him sound editor for the soundtrack to “Dancer in the Dark”. Since 2007, he has also been active as a solo artist, having since released two album, on which he filtered his experimental eclecticism into fragile compositions between pop and avant-garde. In Krems, he will be performing with the highly enigmatic Puzzle Muteson, the alter ego of a mysterious songwriter from the Isle of Wight, whose extraordinary vibrato was reportedly already discovered by his primary school teacher. He’s not called “Puzzle” for nothing.
Band:
Puzzle Muteson
Valgeir Sigurdsson
Daniel Bjarnason
Borgar
Magnason