Monday, November 02, 2009

Pondus streaming popularity...

Due to the latest streaming report "Nordur" (taken from Pondus mini album "Sandur") have been streamed and downloaded over 700 times in the US, in August alone. "Nordur" is a minimalistic instrumental beauty recorded in Reykjavik, Iceland by Björk collaborator Valgeir Sigurdsson. Pondus is a trio playing real instruments, use no samples but guitars, bass and drums only. Petur Hallgrimsson writes the songs, plays the 6 and 12 string electric guitar/bariton/lapsteel, Addi the drums/percussion/cajon and Gudni the bass. The members of Pondus have played with/for as diverse artist as Apparat Organ Quartet, Mugison, BangGang, SlowBlow, Marc Almond, Sigur Ros, Kylie MInogue, Hafler Trio, Bubbi and lots of others...