Icelandic Folk-Chanteuse, Olof Arnalds, a Pleasin` Chilly Breeze!

I discovered the enchanting voice of an Icelandic native, Ólöf Arnalds, this chilly January morning. Apropos. I just have three songs, so far,  from her 2007 release Vid Og Vid (One Little Indian). These are retro-folk songs with only an antique instrument or two accompanying her beautiful voice. That sounds like a picking lute on Klara (for example). The words are Icelandic, so I`m clueless as to what what the chanteuse is warbling all about.

Vio og Vio is more of a folk ballad-sounds like love, life and la la la, literally? An Icelandic Joan Baez? Yes, maybe? I can see it. But unique. My cultural baggage regarding Iceland could be squeezed into a thimble. Yet the simplicity of the songs is refreshing, like an ice-cycled, frosty snowscape in Antarctica. White on white, a polar bear in a snowstorm. Jesting only, Olof Rules!

Anyway, I wax subzero ice cubes. Oh stop! As Jack Benny use to say. Oddly enough there is a YouTube clip (naturally) of Olof Arnalds doing a country song (We`re not the Jet Set). I dig it, even if I`m only a 2nd viewer. I`ll see ya at Hope for Haiti tonight! I`ll be all by my lonesome at the top of the bleacher seats… ( sources-YouTube, itunes and Jon Pareles` Playlist)