On her new album “The Light”, Icelandic pianist and composer Eydís Evensen follows her inner light and opens up dreamy musical spaces full of hope.

For the first time, she combines her minimalist piano melodies and emotional string arrangements, some of which are extended by wind instruments, with subtle vocal passages. Thus, not only a choir can be heard, but also meditatively layered vocal passages by Eydís Evensen herself.

Almost an entire lifetime packed into just 44 minutes… This début album from Eydís Evensen draws on the 27 years the Icelandic composer and pianist has spent on earth. The Greenhouse studios in Reykjavik, where this album was recorded, are run by Valgeir Sigurðsson, who has worked with Björk, Nico Muhly, CocoRosie and Ben Frost among others. Bylur is a beautiful oddity made up of 13 pieces for piano, strings and brass, some of which were composed when Evensen was just a child. This musical self-portrait shines a light on the neoclassical scene, which is already filled with many artists who defy classification, such as Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Jean-Michel Blais and others.