Tui Hirv and Páll Ragnar Pálsson perform songs from the album Layers

Tui Hirv & Páll Ragnar Pálsson perform songs from Layers

Following the Sunday service on November 15, Tui Hirv and Páll Ragnar Pálsson will give a short concert at Hallgrímskirkja at 12:30 pm.

The songs Tui and Páll Ragnar will perform are taken from their recently released album Layers, released on October 23 by the American record label Sono Luminus. The album features their arrangements of traditional religious folk songs, most of them originating in Estonia, but also from the Nordic countries and Britain. These songs have been sung for hundreds of years, evolving through generations and taking on new forms through the people who perform them and the circumstances in which they are sung. The album's title, Layers, refers to both the songs' origins and the many different lives they have lived over time.

Guitarist and composer Páll Ragnar Pálsson and singer and musicologist Tui Hirv grew up in very different musical worlds. He came of age in Iceland's rock scene, with all the freedom and playfulness that came with it, while she was raised within Estonia's strictly academic music education system and rich choral tradition. Their paths crossed at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, and they have collaborated ever since, with Tui performing Páll Ragnar's compositions both in Iceland and internationally.