Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (short: HOH, born April 23, 1958 in Reykjavík, Iceland ) is an Icelandic musician who composes mainly film music, and at the same Allsherjargoði the pagan faith community Ásatrúarfélagið.

Biography

He has received several international awards for his film music, among other things, the 1991 European Film Award for the music for the film Children of Nature - A Journey. Besides, he also released several albums with Psychic TV, Current 93 and Sigur Rós. With the singer of the Sugarcubes, Einar Örn he published in 1993 an album under the name Frostbite. In 1998, he took with Einar Örn and Siggi Baldursson ( also from The Sugarcubes ) an album under the name Grindverk on.

Since 2003 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson high - Gode is ( Allsherjargoði ) of the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, a recognized religious community in Iceland, who practiced the religion of the Germanic gods faith.

For the film Beowulf & Grendel in music, he was nominated for a Genie Award in 2007.

Filmography ( excerpt)

• Rainbow's End (1983 )
• White whales ( 1985)
• Children of Nature - A Journey (1991 )
• Movie Days (1994 )
• Anton (1995 )
• Pan ( 1995)
• Cold Fever ( 1995)
• Devil's Iceland (1996 )
• Krystalbarnet (1996)
• Sects (1997)
• I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now (1998)
• Vildspor (1998)
• Bye Bye Blue Bird ( 1999)
• Angels Of The Universe (2000)
• Pelon maantiede (2000)
• På fremmed mark (2000)
• Falcons (2002)
• Nu (2003)
• Beowulf & Grendel (2005)

Discography (excerpt)

As a member of Psychic TV

• Psychic TV - Those Who Do Not ( 1984)
• Psychic TV - Mouth Of The Night (1985 )
• Psychic TV - Live in Reykjavík ( 1987)

Cooperation with Current 93

• Current 93 - Imperium (1987 )
• Current 93 - The Red Face Of God (1988 )
• Current 93 - Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow (1988 )
• Current 93 - Swastikas For Noddy (1988 )
• Current 93 - Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God ( 1989)
• Current 93/HÖH - Iceland (1991) ( among others with Björk )

Einar Örn cooperation with

• Ornamental - No Pain (1987) ( with Dave Ball ( and Others Psychic TV and Soft Cell ) and Rose McDowall ( Strawberry Switchblade, inter alia, and often at Current 93 ) )
• Frostbite - The Second Coming ( 1993)
• Grindverk - Health of K ( 1998) ( with Siggi Baldursson )

More

• Ad astra solo piece on the sampler Geyser of contemporary Icelandic music (1987 )
• Hafler Trio - Bootleg H3ÖH ( 1993) ( remix album with the Frostbite Hilmarssons cooperation)
• Sigur Rós / HOH - Angels of the Universe (2001)

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