Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (short: HÖH , born April 23, 1958 in Reykjavík , Iceland ) is an Icelandic musician who mainly composes film music, and at the same time Allsherjargoði of the pagan religious community Ásatrúarfélagið .
biography
He has received various international awards for his film music, including the 1991 European Film Prize for the music for the film Children of Nature - A Journey . He also released several albums with Psychic TV , Current 93 and Sigur Rós . With the singer of the Sugarcubes , Einar Örn , he released an album in 1993 under the name Frostbite . In 1998 he recorded an album with Einar Örn and Siggi Baldursson (also from The Sugarcubes) under the name Grindverk .
Since 2003 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson is Hoch- Gode (Allsherjargoði) of the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið , a religious community recognized in Iceland that practices the religion of the Germanic belief in gods.
In 2007 he was nominated for the Genie Award for the film music in Beowulf & Grendel . In June 2018, he was the President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson for his contributions to Icelandic music and religious traditions of the Falcon North awarded.
Filmography (selection)
- 1987: White Whales (Skytturnar)
- 1991: Children of Nature - A Journey (Börn náttúrunnar)
- 1994: Movie Days (Bíódagar)
- 1995: Monkey chaos: the devil is loose in the jungle (Aberne og det hemmelige våben)
- 1995: Cold Fever (Á köldum klaka)
- 1996: Devil's Island (Djöflaeyjan)
- 1997: Merciless Seduction (sects)
- 1999: Bye Bye Bluebird
- 1999: The good lady (Ungfrúin góða og húsið)
- 2000: Angel of the Universe (Englar alheimsins)
- 2000: Fearful accomplices (Pelon maantiede)
- 2003: In the Cut
- 2005: Beowulf & Grendel
- 2010: All seven waves
- 2011: Faces of the Arctic (Andlit norðursins)
- 2015: The Show of Shows (by Benedikt Erlingsson)
Discography (excerpt)
- As a member of Psychic TV
- Psychic TV - Those Who Do Not (1984)
- Psychic TV - Mouth Of The Night (1985)
- Psychic TV - Live in Reykjavík (1987)
- Cooperation with Current 93
- Current 93 - Empire (1987)
- Current 93 - Crowleymass (1987)
- Current 93 - The Red Face Of God (1988)
- Current 93 - Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow (1988)
- Current 93 - Swastika For Noddy (1988)
- Current 93 - Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God (1989)
- Current 93 / HÖH - Iceland (1991) ( inter alia with Björk )
- Cooperation with Einar Örn
- Ornamental - No Pain (1987) (with Dave Ball (including Psychic TV and Soft Cell ) and Rose McDowall (including Strawberry Switchblade and often on Current 93))
- Frostbite - The Second Coming (1993)
- Grindverk - Health of K (1998) (with Siggi Baldursson )
- additional
- Solo piece Ad astra on the Geyser sampler of contemporary Icelandic music (1987)
- Hafler Trio - Bootleg H3ÖH (1993) ( Remix of the Frostbite album with Hilmarsson's collaboration)
- Sigur Rós / HÖH - Angels of the Universe (2001)
- Stafnbúi with Steindór Andersen - historical Rímur reinterpreted (12 Tónar, 2012)
- Circe with Georg Hólm, Orri Páll Dýrasson and Kjartan Hólm - soundtrack to the film The Show of Shows by Benedikt Erlingsson (Krúnk, 2015)
Web links
- Interview with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson on firne-sitte.net (German)
- Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson at Discogs (English)
- Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.snerpa.is/net/snorri/landnama.htm
- ↑ http://www.asatru.is/English/thyska.htm
- ↑ Fálkaorðan. (No longer available online.) Forseti Íslands , June 17, 2018, archived from the original on June 21, 2018 ; Retrieved August 22, 2018 (Icelandic). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | HIGH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic musician and film musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reykjavík , Iceland |