Airplane & Spaceship
Electronic musician from outer space
dj. flugvél og geimskip (Airplane & Spaceship) is the one-person orchestra of Steinunn Hardardottir that draws influences from a thousand worlds. Defined as psychedelic electronic dance-music from outer space, the music is a mix of playful beats, cool bass, catchy melodies and unusual vocals. Her live performances are highly memorable and the music deals with alien worlds, mysteries, and surrealistic dreams. Her concerts are a strange blend of music, storytelling, poetry, and theater. The audience is left feeling like they are in a vivid dream or have traveled to outer space. dj. flugvél og geimskip has released three full length albums. Two of her albums won the Icelandic Kraumur Music Awards, her album Our Atlantis was nominated as the best electronic album of 2019 at the Icelandic Music Awards and her album Nótt á hafsbotni was nominated as the Best Pop Album at the Icelandic Music Awards 2015 and received raving reviews from both Uncut and The Arts Desk amongst others.
“Utterly charming and hugely entertaining, she could have taught The Knife a thing or two about staging and The Flaming Lips that spectacle can also work on an intimate scale.”
-The Arts Desk
“Sometimes an artist’s recorded output cannot adequately prepare you for the experience of seeing them live, and Iceland’s dj. flugvél og geimskip is the perfect example. She bounces onto the stage looking like a cross between Lauren Mayberry and Björk, her pile of synths decorated with gold streamers and topped off with a color-changing disco-ball-light-thing. What follows almost feels like a piece of performance art – dj. flugvél taking on the role of a bizarre storyteller, spinning wonky electronica into tales of evil cats, deals with the devil, spaceships, being cloned by aliens and I swear to God I’m not making this up. She’s quite clearly in a world of her own, but dj. flugvél og geimskip is very accommodating of visitors, so you might as well stay a while.”
-Drowned in Sound
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