Ólafur Arnalds: Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @W4LT3Rego
    @W4LT3Rego 3 года назад +477

    Yes. Olafur arnalds. This is all I wanted from a tiny desk home concert.

    • @W4LT3Rego
      @W4LT3Rego 3 года назад +3

      @@lizziventura2836 u ok?

    • @jimvandersteege
      @jimvandersteege 3 года назад +2

      He did one before this as well. In case you didnt know

    • @W4LT3Rego
      @W4LT3Rego 3 года назад +5

      @@jimvandersteege You're right! I have watched it multiple times but somehow this still felt like a novelty. Thanks for reminding me!

    • @chuckforest4878
      @chuckforest4878 3 года назад

      Wonderful 🤍

  • @RodVester
    @RodVester 3 года назад +330

    If not already, Ólafur should consider movie scoring. He definitely has the compositional technique, mood, and sound to occupy that space and thrive. Brilliant musician!

    • @DRUMAdam91
      @DRUMAdam91 3 года назад +42

      He’s done a couple of TV shows (Broadchurch / Defending Jacob (Main theme)

    • @redcomputfox
      @redcomputfox 3 года назад +14

      He also did the movie "Gimme Shelter".

    • @cmcaggia3
      @cmcaggia3 3 года назад +31

      he also has a few pieces in Nomadland

    • @squidly413
      @squidly413 3 года назад +12

      Listening to Happiness Does Not Wait I thought he did the score for Arrival haha

    • @redcomputfox
      @redcomputfox 3 года назад +5

      @@squidly413 The Bottom Line does have that same undertone of On The Nature Of Daylight which is great.

  • @camilogatica5980
    @camilogatica5980 2 года назад +7

    This is where of Sigur Rós and Arvo Pärt come to dance. Thanks NPR and Ólafur

  • @dude4173
    @dude4173 3 года назад +183

    This is his second tiny desk for those of you who don’t know. Check out his first one too!

    • @SeanStephensen
      @SeanStephensen 3 года назад +9

      thanks for the heads up! I've been a fan of his music for years and somehow didn't know this!

    • @dude4173
      @dude4173 3 года назад +6

      @@SeanStephensen enjoy! His first one (and of course this one) is amazing.

    • @johnstanderfer3692
      @johnstanderfer3692 3 года назад +1

      Thanks @Dude

  • @Jordan04101
    @Jordan04101 3 года назад +228

    0:00 Happiness Does Not Wait
    4:38 Woven Song
    7:53 Spiral
    11:53 We Contain Multitudes

    • @ApolosXV
      @ApolosXV 3 года назад +4

      Thank you! I guess we're too early for the tiny desk youtube description....lol

    • @breathturn
      @breathturn 3 года назад +2

      THANK YOU SO MUCH

    • @papi77on
      @papi77on 3 года назад +3

      Thank you

    • @sofieannbracke
      @sofieannbracke 3 года назад +4

      Doesn't the second tune start at 4:18? When Olafur start the record?

    • @lenat113
      @lenat113 3 года назад +3

      @@sofieannbracke Agree. And I think it’s better than the album version.

  • @tonia7817
    @tonia7817 3 года назад +104

    when you click on a tiny desk concert randomly and what you get is heaven 🤩

    • @severinebaume6246
      @severinebaume6246 3 года назад

      Did you discover Ólafur with this?

    • @tonia7817
      @tonia7817 3 года назад +3

      @@severinebaume6246 yes!!

    • @sergiomejialopez1168
      @sergiomejialopez1168 3 года назад +2

      @@tonia7817 you need to hear nils frahm live

    • @souldier2875
      @souldier2875 5 месяцев назад

      One of my favorite composers.​@tonia7817

  • @marcusbotos169
    @marcusbotos169 3 года назад +96

    His music affects me like no other. It is so intimate with hints of hopeful melancholy. Every time I listen, I feel in communion with the space present between all of us.

    • @dabrowkastepniewska
      @dabrowkastepniewska 3 года назад +2

      I feel exactly the same 🙏

    • @SusanBotich
      @SusanBotich 2 года назад +2

      So beautifully said.

    • @kalleeann
      @kalleeann 2 года назад +2

      Beautifully apt description:)

    • @egementon
      @egementon 2 года назад +5

      Hopeful melancholy... what a lovely word.

    • @DJ-Jeddo
      @DJ-Jeddo 4 месяца назад

      Hopeful Melancholy... A beautiful oxymoron I will be using

  • @drinkzcoffee5183
    @drinkzcoffee5183 3 года назад +167

    Every piece of his music has a way of soothing the recesses of my brain that are constantly running in circles.

    • @neshayrobinson
      @neshayrobinson 3 года назад +3

      Perfectly described❤

    • @dimitrisdiavatis9427
      @dimitrisdiavatis9427 3 года назад +4

      Jean-Michel Jarre once said something like : “it’s easy to make depressing music. To make happy music that’s hard...”

    • @pablobitho8738
      @pablobitho8738 3 года назад +2

      I couldn't say that better.. 👌🏻

    • @henkjanssen1252
      @henkjanssen1252 3 года назад +2

      Not a doctor but might be the coffee...

    • @phongon2005
      @phongon2005 3 года назад

      So much to achieve in so little time.

  • @asunnyday3749
    @asunnyday3749 3 года назад +35

    It’s like meeting an old friend you never knew. Haunting. Beautiful.

  • @blanty1604
    @blanty1604 3 года назад +136

    Imagine a world without music, I would rather not exist at all🥺😍

    • @Paulmazuk
      @Paulmazuk 3 года назад +1

      We should vibrate in similar spaces if you’re based in South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town)

    • @boipelo7056
      @boipelo7056 3 года назад

      not worth imagining Mothusi, its too painful a thought

    • @kevinhanson6106
      @kevinhanson6106 3 года назад

      AMEN!

    • @v.duskren8819
      @v.duskren8819 3 года назад +3

      Here, here. I would've died without music, a long time ago.

    • @Scriabin_fan
      @Scriabin_fan 3 года назад

      You’d actually be completely fine if you were born in a reality where music didn’t exist, because you wouldn’t know what you were missing out on. You’d have no concept of music whatsoever.

  • @1736Cinema
    @1736Cinema 3 года назад +46

    Every time I listen to Ólafur's music, my soul is healed.

  • @LomasLifestyle
    @LomasLifestyle 3 года назад +56

    Hope you read this olafur. My students have made examiners cry when they ve used your music for their dance solos. Cry, big people tears.

    • @writeronthestormkyushu565
      @writeronthestormkyushu565 3 года назад +6

      So awesome! As a teacher, I found your comment very powerful and true. Big people tears. Healing and cleansing tears.

    • @chrispygamin727
      @chrispygamin727 3 года назад +1

      I would love to see a dance to his songs

  • @ge009
    @ge009 2 года назад +7

    I love how during “We Contain Multitudes” the other members of the group just sit there in silence and take it all in. When I saw him in Brooklyn you could hear a pin drop when he played it and I’ve just never experienced that at a concert before.

  • @jaredbaez5457
    @jaredbaez5457 3 года назад +48

    This looks like a scene from a movie, so beautiful

    • @Gustavomazu
      @Gustavomazu 3 года назад +2

      you should also check out his "a sunrise session" live video and his "island songs" performance movie!

  • @DUBaviator
    @DUBaviator 3 года назад +19

    It's like time has slowed down and all of lifes pressures have been lifted when I listen to Olafur's music.

  • @kjelldanao
    @kjelldanao 3 года назад +9

    this must be what peace feels like

  • @Buzz9530
    @Buzz9530 3 года назад +14

    Man, I've been doing music for as long as I can remember, and my lord, I've not cried like that to a piece in literally over a decade, maybe two.. for someone that cries very rarely.. these tears were pure.. thank you.

  • @janicestevenson6496
    @janicestevenson6496 3 года назад +23

    Thank you Olafur for reminding me of this quote with your beautiful music.
    "Peace abides with me today....Abide with peace and receive its blessings. Come to peace with all that troubles you. Come not seeking answers....not seeking understanding....seeking its blessings. Peace cannot enter into a life of conflict, but you can enter into a life of peace. You come to peace, which is waiting for you, and in this your burdens will be released....Practice then receiving. Peace abides with you today. Today abide with peace." (Steps to Knowledge, New Message org)

  • @writeronthestormkyushu565
    @writeronthestormkyushu565 3 года назад +2

    Fresh air and light after a long, hard winter... Sending love to everyone that survived... and sadly to those that did not... like my dad. Love you pops. Miss you.

  • @alexjcorona2605
    @alexjcorona2605 3 года назад +8

    The way the strings sound... magical.

  • @mospeeking1
    @mospeeking1 2 года назад +3

    If my soul could make a sound it would be this song .... My heart beats to this rythem

  • @dianalopez-kq5gq
    @dianalopez-kq5gq Месяц назад +1

    It is my first time listening to Ólafur. This music transports me to a place of peace

  • @brujeriaconcept
    @brujeriaconcept 3 года назад +12

    YESSS!!! This man is a freaking genius! Thank you tiny desk !!

  • @bernios3446
    @bernios3446 2 года назад +1

    The way Olafur composed the piano and song lines around that archaic tribal singing from the phonograph is so amazingly beautiful. The achingly beautful music + the modesty of Olafur makes it almost impossible not to love the guy...

  • @Toebex
    @Toebex 3 года назад +5

    His hands are shaking so much and he looks so lost in what he is playing, such a pleasure to listen to

  • @mikedelferro
    @mikedelferro 3 года назад +2

    Thank you! Olafur has influenced my music and opened an ambient world for me.

  • @Ramaphala1
    @Ramaphala1 3 года назад +7

    Finally! Olafur is on Tiny Desk. This had to happen after that beautiful album that came out in December, Some Kind of Peace. He should have a session where he performs Back to the Sky and Undone. The two being thee most favourite for me on the album but overall the entire album is a Masterpiece. Love and Light Everyone!

    • @benjadamon
      @benjadamon 3 года назад

      You do know that he’s been on Tiny Desk before, right?

  • @mort2247
    @mort2247 3 года назад +14

    this is so immersive and beautiful. i am so entranced by the very unique sounding, warm, and mallet-heavy pianos. and the acoustic rawness of the musicians as a collective gives so much charm and mystique to the compositiions. also the sound of the keys clacking + muted strings for pianos have always held a special place in my heart.
    i'd take those over bright and short grand pianos anyday

  • @anughes
    @anughes 2 года назад +2

    I love this guy!!! Just Beatiful!

  • @jonathanestradaestrada7039
    @jonathanestradaestrada7039 3 года назад +9

    Gracias Olafur..

  • @Grett_dma
    @Grett_dma 3 года назад +21

    I was waiting eagerly for this one. His music is so very evocative and emotionally charged, it transports me to the shores of Iceland anytime I listen.

  • @kazminhenkin
    @kazminhenkin 3 года назад +4

    It's amazing when you find something like this and realize its exactly what you needed to make you feel just right. 🙌🙏

  • @dyensn7113
    @dyensn7113 3 года назад +4

    So natural, comfortable, simple, sensitive sounds~ just like dreaming working through air where fill with woods and fresh wind^^

  • @MattLeFaitMusic
    @MattLeFaitMusic 3 года назад +3

    Such talent in this room!

  • @Gabriela-tb5uv
    @Gabriela-tb5uv 3 года назад +4

    The way he feels the music and plays it, it's incredible. I wish I could meet him so I could tell him how his music makes me feel.

  • @bayareaknight4814
    @bayareaknight4814 3 года назад +3

    Thank you Tiny Desk and thank you Olafur

  • @XSemperIdem5
    @XSemperIdem5 3 года назад +1

    During the first song, the moment he stops playing and turns to face the other musicians you can tell he doesn't just hear the music, he feels it. And it comes across all of his compositions. It's so difficult to explain to others but his music expresses emotions better than even words can in such a universal manner.

  • @elizabethurbick
    @elizabethurbick 9 месяцев назад

    I always come to tears, deep in the cave of my being, touching bliss, when I listen to Olafur music...cosmic.

  • @abracadaverous
    @abracadaverous 3 года назад +5

    I'm so glad I clicked on this. It lowered my blood pressure and heart rate by a lot. Absolutely lovely

  • @NiklasMX
    @NiklasMX 3 года назад +1

    Spiral is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, it makes me almost cry every time I hear it. Wonderful, beautiful, thank you.

    • @XSemperIdem5
      @XSemperIdem5 3 года назад

      Almost? Right from the beginning of the song my eyes were getting filled with tears. Only his music has ever had this effect on me.

  • @burntieburntwell
    @burntieburntwell 3 года назад +9

    This music latches onto you, so careful and melodic.

    • @TheTransitmtl
      @TheTransitmtl 3 года назад +1

      If you have a chance take a listen to a well recorded live rendition of Says by Nils Frahm or almost anything from Finally We Are No One or Summer Make Good by Múm

  • @LeandroBianchimusic
    @LeandroBianchimusic 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful thank you! 💚🎶💚🙏🏽

  • @illucid8te
    @illucid8te Год назад +2

    Thankyou,
    Your work is beautiful

  • @sareena132
    @sareena132 3 года назад +2

    Love you from the bottom of my heart Olafur 💜💜

  • @Paulmazuk
    @Paulmazuk 3 года назад +1

    Tiny Desk has literally brought every single one of my favorite artists over. Who else blinked once and the concert was over?

    • @dabrowkastepniewska
      @dabrowkastepniewska 3 года назад

      I did.

    • @dabrowkastepniewska
      @dabrowkastepniewska 3 года назад

      Olafur's music is for me, how to put it in the best way - a beauty beyond words. Perfect harmony and peace. A sound of Iceland...

  • @Unapologetically_human8349
    @Unapologetically_human8349 3 года назад +1

    While listening, I had the same feeling watching a craftsman working on raw material and seeing their creation progressively taking shape while being certain the outcome would be a masterpiece. Thanks Tiny Desk.

  • @merkytippery
    @merkytippery 3 года назад +7

    Ah man, this is so beautiful and full of emotion

  • @hvanmegen
    @hvanmegen 11 месяцев назад

    You channel my hope for all things that are good.. this is the music that gives me hope for everything.. this is home... thank you for this.. all of you.

  • @james_mackey
    @james_mackey 3 года назад +5

    OLAFUR x TINY DESK FOREVER!!!

  • @WilbertvandenBosch
    @WilbertvandenBosch 2 года назад +1

    4:20... I was sold, can't get over it..

  • @nabaddajulietjosephine05
    @nabaddajulietjosephine05 2 года назад +1

    How are people so talented and humannnnn too.

  • @alisone258
    @alisone258 3 года назад +1

    Always stunning. The last concert I went to before COVID was to see Olafur Arnalds in November of 2019. I was living in Zagreb, Croatia at the time and went to this performance by myself. Everything about it was breathtaking. The music, the atmosphere, the lights. Everyone was packed in there and enchanted by the music. I’ve since had to relocate and move back to the US from Croatia. But seeing Arnalds in concert is one of my fondest memories of my time living there and pre-COVID days.

    • @waylonbaumgardner3612
      @waylonbaumgardner3612 3 года назад

      I saw him in early 2019 and agree :)

    • @philrob4468
      @philrob4468 2 года назад

      Something I almost would rather see by myself.. All my attention on the music with less distractions

  • @danielfrancis2332
    @danielfrancis2332 3 года назад +1

    I feel as though the music captures something very deep in my soul- as if someone had taken a picture of me without my knowing it and showed it to me. Thank you, Ólafur!

  • @fibzwavez8601
    @fibzwavez8601 3 года назад +1

    He just made me appreciate his albums even more...lately everyday I have to repeat a few songs from "Some Kind of Peace" album...brilliant :)

  • @MikeKobb
    @MikeKobb 2 года назад +2

    Saw him perform last night in San Francisco, and it was just wonderful. They played a beautiful version of Woven Song where the violins took the melody line that Herlinda Agustin Fernandez sings on the original. It worked beautifully.

    • @ge009
      @ge009 2 года назад +2

      I was at his Brooklyn show and they did that same thing there. It was the first concert I’ve ever been to where you could hear a pin drop in the audience throughout the whole show, everyone was that captivated by him and the music.

  • @gabriele55957
    @gabriele55957 2 года назад +1

    just one word, AMAZING!!!!!!!This is the first time that I listen you, and it was very incredible

  • @jsunshine1
    @jsunshine1 3 года назад +3

    his music is breathtaking. i feel like i am in a dream.

  • @rosaliafernandeztarrio6837
    @rosaliafernandeztarrio6837 3 года назад +1

    Gracias Ólafur Arnalds por tu música que me reconforta mi alma! Gracias por tu música!!!!!

  • @irinakarelina7057
    @irinakarelina7057 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for existing Oláfur.

  • @adhiantos
    @adhiantos 3 года назад +1

    Love how the violin player is playing with his legs crossed. Truly a tiny desk home session!

    • @christinebeckett5511
      @christinebeckett5511 3 года назад

      If it's his legs (Karl's) that the viola player. The violist. Bigger, deeper, richer, warmer, more human sounding than the ethereal high-pitched violin. Essentially an alto violin. Think of alto flute, how its sound compares to regular flute.

    • @christinebeckett5511
      @christinebeckett5511 3 года назад

      Karl is arrying the bass line from around 1:32; quite audible around 1:45 - 2:05 how deep and low the viola sound is. Love it!!!

    • @christinebeckett5511
      @christinebeckett5511 3 года назад

      Augghhhhh Typos. "That's". And "carrying".

    • @adhiantos
      @adhiantos 3 года назад

      @@christinebeckett5511 Oh oops! I saw the video description and there's no viola so I thought I was wrong :P

  • @HugoJuarezJ
    @HugoJuarezJ 3 года назад

    You can see art everywhere in the background, the lights and shadows and the respect for the music.

  • @pythonetics1
    @pythonetics1 3 года назад

    I would like to thank you on this platform for your BBC Front row solo pieces during the first lockdown. And here too thank you .

  • @leechong5335
    @leechong5335 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for sharing this beautiful composer Olafur Amalds it was a great romantic moment thank you very much tiny desk 🌸

  • @tombittikoffer412
    @tombittikoffer412 3 года назад +18

    That studio space is incredible. No wonder they make such beautiful music. I'd love to see the view outside the window.

  • @christinebeckett5511
    @christinebeckett5511 3 года назад +1

    What beautiful musicians, every one. Thank you so much to you all.

  • @arkun_finish
    @arkun_finish 3 года назад

    The moment, when my heart open for this type of music, I know, in my deepest soul I´m not alone! And it helps through the darker moments with a little light. And it shows me, here and now, thats all what we have!

  • @v.s.santoni4488
    @v.s.santoni4488 3 года назад +1

    Such a wonderfully evocative pianist. Arnalds' music always sets my soul flying.

  • @northsike
    @northsike 3 года назад

    Thanks for wonderful music!

  • @AaronPlaya100
    @AaronPlaya100 3 года назад +4

    Perfection on a whole new level

  • @cindypaul1127
    @cindypaul1127 3 года назад

    Your music is like a warm embrace, and those are not as easy to come by these days so, thank you! ❤️

  • @boipelo7056
    @boipelo7056 3 года назад

    I'm so happy right now, so very happy, so glad he did a 'home' Tiny Desk. thank you NPR

    • @MM-jc7uv
      @MM-jc7uv 3 года назад +1

      He’s done one before like 2 years ago. That one is also great

  • @relentless_m7614
    @relentless_m7614 3 года назад +2

    Thank you for the medicine 🙏

  • @dokproduction9881
    @dokproduction9881 3 года назад

    It's more than music, it's a sonic experience.. Beautiful. Thanks Olafur and Tiny Desk!

  • @MendelBouman
    @MendelBouman 3 года назад

    Thank you Ólafur and Tiny Desk for comforting me with this music session.

  • @abstractsymmetricity
    @abstractsymmetricity 3 года назад +5

    They really got Olafur Arnalds, well played tiny desk.

  • @Iskimoi
    @Iskimoi 3 года назад

    After a long time (too many sad memories, which were connected with the songs) I'm hearing Ólafur again and it is as wonderful as ever! Thank you, again!

  • @bettyreads222
    @bettyreads222 3 года назад

    totally started crying when spiral began; the strings of that song just really get me. what a beautiful set

  • @davidepifanio3634
    @davidepifanio3634 3 года назад +1

    Você é incrível Orlafu Arnalds, as suas músicas me traz sensações sublimes.

  • @GarnetCallender
    @GarnetCallender 5 месяцев назад

    Incredible talent, thank you! music that warms the heart, mind and soul

  • @1962RJP
    @1962RJP 2 года назад +2

    Bravo, just bravo

  • @oers66
    @oers66 3 года назад

    Thx NPR, been waiting for this. sweet, bitter, sad, happiness, so much emotions.....Olafur is such a genius

  • @damianoradaman
    @damianoradaman 3 года назад

    How not to be in love with this man!!!! What a wonderful human being!

  • @MeetMySoundtrack
    @MeetMySoundtrack 3 года назад

    There is beauty in this world. Thank you for this!

  • @marie-anged.7380
    @marie-anged.7380 3 года назад

    thank you so much for those moments of tenderness, merci tellement pour ces purs moments de douceur...

  • @julianrumba9824
    @julianrumba9824 3 года назад +2

    Como desliza suavemente sus manos sobre el piano al terminar de tocar un tema... lo es todo

  • @nonickname001
    @nonickname001 3 года назад

    This really made my day. Especially how you made the Woven Song. The sample of the indigenous people touched me within my heart. It has that kind of special thing around it.
    Blessed love!

  • @sergiomejialopez1168
    @sergiomejialopez1168 3 года назад

    Grande Olafur, gracias por este regalo y un abrazo a todos los que aman la buena música, bendiciones

  • @amethysteallee3760
    @amethysteallee3760 2 года назад +1

    Such beautiful, soft and original music!

  • @felipecarvalho1233
    @felipecarvalho1233 3 года назад +14

    Pure Magic

  • @moisesfranco9668
    @moisesfranco9668 Год назад

    What a master piece! Brilliant musician! Thank you very much for your creation, for your input to help us to scape from this century XXI

  • @marina668
    @marina668 3 года назад +1

    This music is so wonderful!! Thank you for sharing your talent 🙏

  • @sandrascheffer403
    @sandrascheffer403 3 года назад

    This gives the peaceful feeling I've been missing the last few months. Beautiful.

  • @nisa2115
    @nisa2115 3 года назад

    This feels ethereal. Like I am in this imaginary world with no pressure nor burden. This could make you cry by feeling emotions you never thought you could ever feel. Those you cannot describe or categorize, you just drown in it. Thank you, Ólafur 🖤

  • @pastormolez8235
    @pastormolez8235 3 года назад

    Been a fan of Òlafur since ages ago, this brings a smile to my face

  • @hendrixpoem2002
    @hendrixpoem2002 2 года назад +1

    This is BEAUTIFUL

  • @camilacastillo8417
    @camilacastillo8417 3 года назад

    This took all my problems away. It was a whole journey full of peace and magic. Thank you so much gjvdk

  • @kennethdavis5309
    @kennethdavis5309 3 года назад

    You can feel the soul in every sound brings joy..

  • @mei7080
    @mei7080 3 года назад +1

    Excellent once again ! thanks Olafur. I really love Spiral.

  • @oliverheath4500
    @oliverheath4500 3 года назад +3

    Absolutely beautiful, echoes in my soul 🫀🫀🫀

    • @kayluhluh6973
      @kayluhluh6973 3 года назад

      Do you mean, “echoes in my heart”?