What a lovely review in Chain D.L.K by Vito Camaretta about Mælifell Remix Album by Elif Yalvac, Collaborators and Remix artists.
The standout track, if we’re going to play favorites, is probably "Heart of Noise (Remix)" by BistroBoy. Here, Yalvaç’s icy synths and field recordings are melted down and reshaped into something warm and enveloping — a downtempo dreamscape that feels more like a lullaby than the original’s hypnagogic tones. Bistro Boy, true to form, injects a bit of Icelandic magic, transforming the track into something that feels at once familiar and otherworldly, as though you’re listening to the heartbeat of the island itself...
In "Maelifell", Yalvaç offers up the guts of her 2023 album "My Heart of Noise" for reimagining, enlisting a globe-spanning crew of collaborators....If "My Heart of Noise" was Yalvaç’s love letter to Icelandic nature — complete with the raw, glacial beauty that one expects from the genre — "Maelifell" is its slightly neurotic younger sibling. Named after a volcano that’s as much a mouthful to say as it is striking to see, this remix album doesn’t just reinterpret the original; it dissects it, breaks it down into fractured pieces, and rearranges it into something that’s both familiar and entirely alien
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