AdHd (IS)
Available for touring in July 2020
and
Fall 2021 in BENELUX & France
“ADHD was the greatest discovery and artistic surprise of the Brussels Jazz Festival 2014
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“A lazy, moody trip so captivating that gives you the feeling to lay naked in Blue Lagoon. Mindblowing!”
“ADHD’s jazz is hard to label – it is a mixture of melancholy, jazz rock and ambient that carries you in a delightful, inspired hypnotic trip. Highly recommended!”
“ADHD… an unusual line up of great musicians overwhelms with their mix of jazz, blues and rock. Their live performance is one long emotional trip with references to the past, present and future of what jazz was/is/can and hast to be.”
All based in the greater Reykjavík area, ADHD is a four-piece band that consists of four old friends and colleagues. The four of them have been working together in various projects and bands for more than a decade (and even a little bit longer than that…). In 2008 it was decided that it would be a good idea to put together a band, which is ADHD, and play a few shows in Iceland. The chemistry between the four players was immediate and the following year their debut album, self-titled adhd, won them stellar reviews, as well as “Jazz-album of the year” at the Icelandic Music Awards.
Now, three albums after that (adhd2, adhd3 and adhd4, which all got great reviews, nominations for the Nordic Music Prize, etc. ), and after extensive touring in Europe and Iceland, ADHD are finishing and releasing their 5th album in collaboration with Contemplate-music in Berlin, on the 31st of October. adhd5 was recorded in Sundlaugin Studios by Ívar Ragnarson. Ívar also mixed the record and it was mastered by mr. Haffi Tempó.
The record contains 8 songs that were written all over the place; a few were written in January this year when the band had a few days off on a European tour and got to spend those days close to Bad-Meinberg in Germany at a very good friends house. Others were written in the studio or at some home or…The songs are a very dynamic mixture of a lot of elements; melancholic at times, cheerful, soft, loud and everything in between.
ADHD performances an organic event and therefore the band decided to record this album live, to reflect the live performances.
ADHD are:
Óskar Guðjónsson: Saxophones
Ómar Guðjónsson: Guitars, Bass
Thomas Jonsson: Piano, Hammond, Synths, Bass etc.
Magnús Trygvason Eliassen: Drums, Percussion
The members of ADHD are very active in both the Icelandic music scene, as well as abroad.
Their collaborators include amiina, Jim Black, Wadada Leo Smith, Skúli Sverrison, Sören Dahl Jeppesen, Tómas R Einarsson, múm, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sin Fang, Samúel Jón Samúelsson and many many others.
Three of the four members have also released their own solo albums which received great reviews.
www.adhd-music.is
References BENELUX
2015: Flagey - Brussels, 30CC - Leuven, KC Nona & CC Mechelen - Mechelen, CC Hasselt/Muziek-o-Droom
2017: Tivoli-Vredenburg - Utrecht, De Doelen - Rotterdam, Flagey - Brussels, Muziekgebouw Enschede, CC De Spil - Roeselare
2019: Lantaren-Venster - Rotterdam, Flagey - Brussels, KC Nona & CC Mechelen, Bimhuis - Amsterdam, Handelsbeurs - Gent
Spessi (from AdHd6). Recorded at Grindavik family session