Odin's Raven Magic

Odin's Raven Magic
Soundtrack album by
Sigur Rós, Steindór Andersen, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson and María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Released4 December 2020 (2020-12-04)
Recorded2004
Genre
Length65:31
LanguageIcelandic
LabelKrúnk
Sigur Rós chronology
Kveikur
(2013)		 Odin's Raven Magic
(2020)		 Átta
(2023)
Singles from Odin's Raven Magic
  1. "Dvergmál"
    Released: 23 October 2020
  2. "Stendur æva"
    Released: 13 November 2020
  3. "Spár eða spakmál"
    Released: 4 December 2020

Odin's Raven Magic is a 2002 orchestral setting to the Icelandic poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins. The composition was a collaboration by Sigur Rós, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Steindór Andersen, Páll Guðmundsson and Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir. It was premiered at the Barbican Centre in London on 21 April 2002 and then performed at the Reykjavík Arts Festival on 24 May 2002. Video of the production can be viewed in the documentary Screaming Masterpiece or Gargandi snilld, by Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon.

In October 2020, the band announced that a recording of Odin's Raven Magic would be released on December 4, 2020.

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