Stafrænn Hákon

Ventill / Poki (Valves: resurrected)
Ventill / Poki (Valves: resurrected)
2024
Stafraenn Hakon's 20th Anniversary Re-Release: "Ventill/Poki (valves:resurrected" and New Album "Gler/Hanski"
Gler / Hanski
Gler / Hanski
2024
"Gler/Hanski" - we unveil "Gler/Hanski," a collection of ten tracks, 8 previously unreleased tracks from the same creative period as "Ventill/Poki"
Meet me in forever
Meet me in forever
2023
Awake
Awake
2022
Having taken two years to complete, each band member worked from original ideas to hone and shape the music, elevating it into a new life and form.
Í ástandi rjúpunnar (20th anniversary reissue)
Í ástandi rjúpunnar (20th anniversary reissue)
2022
20th anniversary reissue of our 2nd album. Now sounding pretty amazing.
Skvettir edik á ref (Revised 20th anniversary)
Skvettir edik á ref (Revised 20th anniversary)
2022
Revised 20th anniversary reissue of our 3rd album.
Eignast Jeppa: 20th Anniversary edition
Eignast Jeppa: 20th Anniversary edition
2021
Eignast Jeppa: Remixed
Eignast Jeppa: Remixed
2021
Aftur
Aftur
2019
Aftur is our eleventh long player album, recorded between 2017 - 2019.
Hausi
Hausi
2017
Hausi is our tenth and most recent album recorded in 2016 and released in 2017
Eternal Horse
Eternal Horse
2015
Eternal Horse, the ninth full length contains 9 songs and was released in 2015 through Darla.
Kælir Varðhund
Kælir Varðhund
2014
Our eight album was recorded at our garage studio and released on cassette in 2014.
Prammi
Prammi
2012
Prammi, our seventh album has a nice drone ambient feel to it.
Sanitas
Sanitas
2010
Sanitas is our sixth full length album recorded in the UK with our friend Daniel Lovegrove.
Apron
Apron
2010
Limited handmade TOUR EP sold on tour in 2010 and 2011
Glussajól
Glussajól
2010
Christmas album with some takes on classic christmas songs.
Échange II: Stafrænn Hákon & Void´s Anatomy
Échange II: Stafrænn Hákon & Void´s Anatomy
2009
Collaboration with the Canadian singer Mary Jorge of Void´s Anatomy
Gummi
Gummi
2007
Gummi is the fifth full length album by us and contains some vocals for the first time.
Kobbi
Kobbi
2007
Handmade Tour EP from 2007
Sprengir Ílát
Sprengir Ílát
2006
Ep released on Chat Blanc in 2006
Ventill / Poki
Ventill / Poki
2004
Ventill/Poki is our fourth full length and released on Resonant Records in 2004.
UK Tour EP
UK Tour EP
2004
Tour Ep from 2004 with Dialect
Prjónar Húmmus
Prjónar Húmmus
2003
Pjrónar Húmmus is Stafrænn Hakon´s left-overs compliation from his first 3 albums
Skvettir edik á ref
Skvettir edik á ref
2002
Third album was released by our friends in the UK, Resonant Records.
Í ástandi rjúpunnar
Í ástandi rjúpunnar
2002
Our second album was originally released in 2002 but re-released through Resonant Records in early 2004.
Eignast Jeppa
Eignast Jeppa
2001
Our debut album, entirely recorded on a 4-track tape recorder.

Biography

Stafrænn Hákon has been making music and releasing records since 1999. Throughout the years the band has evolved from a one-man project to a full band, having kept the same line-up since 2012. Stafrænn Hákon has released 10 full length albums and series of EP's, the latest being the full length album 'Hausi', released on CD and Vinyl LP record in September 2017 after a successful crowdfunding effort through Karolina Fund.

Stafrænn Hákon has collaborated with a broad range of artists and musicians and was aired at thelate John Peel´s radio sessions amongst others. The band has released material on The U.S based indie label Secret Eye, Resonant Records, Awkward Silence, Chat Blanc, Japanese Nature Bliss & Happy Prince as well on Darla Records.

Stafrænn Hákon has continued sliding a comic or surreal twist in the songwriting since 1999,challenging the epic and dreamy connotations its music has always been ascribed with. Humor in combination with sincerity has long been some of Stafrænn Hákon's driving forces, a twisted combination that reflects a personal nuance for those curious to dig deeper into the musical mindscape of the man behind the band. The band's current lineup consists of guitarists Ólafur Josephsson and Lárus Siguðsson, bass guitarist Árni Þór Árnason, drummer Róbert Már Runólfsson and singer Magnús Freyr Gíslason with regular appearances from cellist Þórður Hermannsson and trombonist Þröstur Sigurðsson.

Press Highlights:

Stafrænn Hákon's tenth full-length studio album, Hausi, was released in September 2017.
The start of the album is attributable to 2016 when the band performed at “Vinnslan” in Tjarnarbíó and improvised 20 minutes of work based around the melodies played on the harp by Lárus Sigurðsson, one of the band's members. After a successful improvisation,it was decided to work further with the magical harp melodies and the songs began to pile up. The band settled at Sólheimar in Grímsnes for a weekend in August and recorded some songs that laid the foundation to this album. Recording ended in March 2017.

The band decided this time that crowdfunding the album the way forward and was done successfully through Karolina Fund in the spring of 2017.
The album has gotten great reviews so far, including the title "Dr. Rok's album of the year2017" (http://rokmusik.co/dr-roks-top-20-of-Icelandic-releases-in-2017/)and was featured as the Icelandic National Radio's (Rás 2) "Album of the week" in April 2018 (http://www.ruv.is/frett/himneskir-horputonar-med-hareysti).

VIDEOS

Aftur
Duft
Rafall
Falkor
Frigid/Bag
Sót
Bræla
Þurr Þurr
P-Rofi