Folkfestival.is - Records and recordings

Sena distributes the records of South River Band. They are also sold on South River Band concerts.  

 

Some samples of band rehearsals can be seen on YouTube. There are also samples of the music of South River Band on the MySpace page of the band.

 

South River Band has published five records.

 

 

The fifth record was released in December 2010. An old dream came true with this release; we had for many years talked about this project. The record contains 12 songs, a mixture of our own original music and well known classical songs that we love.

 

  Allar stúlkurnar (All the girls)

 

Our fourth record was released in October 2007. It contains 14 songs, a mixture of original music and foreign songs. All the lyrics are written by ourselves (in Icelandic) and they tell stories of brighter and darker sides of life, joy and happiness and sorrow, and all in between.

 

  Bacalao

 

Our third record was recorded in the famous Studio 12 in the National Radio in only three hours in the spring of 2005. We therefore think that this record is a very good reference on what the band really was during this recording. It contains 13 songs, all of them are instrumental and they come from different countries of the world, eastern Europe, USA, Scandinavia and South America.

 

  Maður gæti beðið um betra veður (One could ask for better weather)

 

The second record was released in 2004. It was characterized by increased musical ambitions after Matthias Stefansson joined the band to play violin and guitar. Matthias is also a great recording engineer and he was responsible for the recordings. There are 14 songs, most of them original - either the music or the lyrics or both. The record was well received and the band was awarded a gold record in 2005 after 7.000 copies were sold.

 

 

Our first record had the name of the band and it was released in 2002. We think it is a good reference on the origins of South River Band and it featured the "godfather" of the band, Jon Arnason, accordion player and farmer on Syðri-Á farm in Ólafsfjörður - where the band has its roots.