Next week Samaris play a handful of European shows including Spot Festival and a London date at OSLO, Hackney on Tuesday 5th, May.
The band release ‘Silkidrangar Sessions’ – a companion to last year’s debut, containing re-worked tracks from the original and released a year later on the 25th May.
Performing at different times of day and sometimes playing more unusual arts & gallery spaces, the trio found themselves instinctively tailoring the songs to fit what the environment suggested. So the idea for the ‘Sessions’ album became – as singer Jófríður attests -“To try and capture the moments that happen live when we surprise each other and play around with our parts. I guess the main difference between ‘Silkidrangar’ and the ‘Sessions’ album lies within the rawness and improvisation that the sessions contain and the speediness with which they were recorded - we deliberately went into the studio with only a very loose idea of what we wanted to come out with.”
SAMARIS SILKIDRANGAR SESSIONS is released on 25th May 2015 via One Little Indian