SOUNDTRACK TO A CRAZY WIND: ICELANDIC MUSIC AND THAT ONE TIME WE ALMOST DIED
*You can listen to this playlist I put together with Icelandic songs, some of which are mentioned in this post. In any case, you should definitely check out the Icelandic music scene, I’m sure you’ll find something to your taste.* We were told not to leave after 1 pm because we would meet a “crazy wind,” air quotes and wink included. It was 10 am and the wink kind of played down the warning ( Lesson 1: Icelanders don’t loose their sense of humor even when facing certain death). So we left the cozy cabins of Geysir and drove into the mountain pass, our destination: the Blue Lagoon. We had already been in Iceland for several days, enjoying the snow and some sun from March. We were familiar with Icelandic music from before our arrival. We knew our Björk and Sigur Rós, Mammút and Jóhann Jóhannsson. ( Lesson 2: for such a small country, the music scene is comparatively huge.) But we were still at the beginning of our Icelandic journey and we only had two CDs to play on the car’s radio:
