Ólafur Arnalds, Bonobo – Loom

Happy to tell you all that Loom just got a Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Recording!

Last year Bonobo and I spent a couple of days in the studio, after traveling and camping together in the Icelandic highlands, with no intention other than to spend some quality time with music. Loom is one of the songs that came from those sessions and as time passed, and I started writing the rest of the album, I kept coming back to it. The serene energy of the song is perfectly encapsulated in Neels’s beautiful video — a true testament to getting lost in the moment, as we did.

some kind of peace - Out Now

directed by Neels Castillon

choreographer — Fanny Sage
dancers — Maëva Berthelot, Janina Sarantšina, Xiaoyi Liu

director of photography — Eric Blanckaert
1st AC — Kévin Rosé
2nd AC — Claire Bouchard

producer — Louis Arnoux
producer — Emilie Mallen
executive producer — Ariane Cornic

production coordinator — Sandrine Laveau
Assistant Location manager — Lucas Granel
lifeguard — Simon Magneron
still photography — Thibaut Koralewski

color grading — Nicolas Guibert (Herve Bays)
camera and lenses — RVZ

special thanks — Damiano Vukotic, Françoise, Pierre Jean, Laetitia and the whole team refuge Ayous. David Bordes, Pierre Vidal, Jana, Maria et Gaston Vidal, Anne-Laure Sanchette, Régis Carrère, Sanç Bordes-Monthelie, Cyril Pujalet and their donkeys. Jean Montoulieu, Pyrénées National Park.

[serotoninbeggar]

I was listening to this while locking the front gate of my house. Its pretty distant from the house. When walked back in, the power suddenly went out. The whole town went dark and i could see the clear night sky decorated with bright stars. I stood still in awe with the song blasting in my earphones. It was my first time listening to this song and the experience was magical. Sorry just felt like sharing this

[blancagarcia]

Dear Olafur & Bonobo:
Since I was little, I have been taught that I should be grateful to everyone and for everything.
As the years passed I began to observe in detail the beauty of all things, the song of a bird, the laugh of a child, a look, a fall on a bicycle, the flight of a leaf, the color in the clouds ...
I discovered that there is a heartbeat within everything around us and for a moment, I went crazy.
I needed to be inside nature and hear her cry ...
I traveled far and found a place that now I don't remember the colors it had but I vividly remember the deep embrace that a tree gave me and I could feel the earth rotate and vibrate ... I felt my feet sink until I was one with the world, with God .
In that moment, I found everything I had lost about myself and cried ...
I understood what self-love and love for everything means, my world turned gray and beautiful, cold and windy ... then I woke up.

I hadn't experienced something so profound since then, and then I found this composition of the two of you.
That is why I want to thank from the depths of my being for this beautiful piece ...

[Voicecrack]

2:37- 2:40
Wow, lying on the elbow - the stillness, composure, control, and poise

[danielsaur]

Admit it, each and every one of us has listened to this more than once.

[GregoryDodds]

3 women of 3 races expressing the holding and releasing of the world's expectations. So beautiful. Why did I cry?

[TravellerInTheWholeWorld]

This is filmed for sure in one of the summer nights in Iceland. Very magical and eerie place to be by yourself at 2 a'clock in the night in a permanent golden hour light and no sound at all...no bugs..no birds...only the stillness of mountain lakes and the mountain peaks washed in pink and golden tones of light. Like walking into a painting. Memories I will never forget.

[leroykhumomogatusi]

Inspiring piece of art. The creative genius of Ólafur and Bonobo is beyond words.

[jacq]

We saw Olafur many years ago, playing in a very small club in London, took my breath away.... And he still does.

[ThomasCleanbag]

One cannot simply listen this track only once. Both guys are geniuses, their music is so close to perfection, it looks like it is perfect.
EDIT: the choreography is also magical.

[egonbraun]

Thanks. This is the first time I understood why dance is a language. thanks . . .

[christiantamminen]

The human spirit is transitional and shared between all nations. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

[rajoshreebose]

Think the video shows 'resurrection' beautifully.
She goes into the water.. can say 'her realm' and emerges out 3 times stronger/better than her past self! 💗

[jaydenchan]

A sense of serendipity flows inside of me whenever I listen to this song. It calms me and be at peace.

[tommyalbertsen]

I need a 16 hour loop of this, it is the perfect backdrop for all my waking hours!

[anasolari]

I wrote my last sci-fi novel with your music as soundtrack. Thank you very much, your music is very inspiring and beautiful.

[arvindshan]

Congrats on the Grammy nomination ✌️👏🎉🏆

[VolodymyrDyachenko]

I was waiting for Hidden Orchestra-type-of-drums bursting out somewhere on the last minute. Definitely need extended version for 7+ minutes

[aldosansone]

we are so far away and yet made of the same essence, the same that moves a soul from a distance. Iceland land of infinite magic and mystery, of passion and eternal love. your music is a caress to the heart...thank you!

[caleob]

When she is in the water bent over backwards doing that crazy pose. I need that on a shirt

[lizzykay]

Things like this make me believe that humans are beautiful. The way they dance is like nature.