Bedroom Community is an Icelandic and American music collective and record label that was founded in 2006 by producer Valgeir Sigurðsson, alongside fellow artists Nico Muhly and Ben Frost, later adding more artists to the label. Based on the outskirts of Reykjavík, Iceland, Bedroom Community is also the home of Greenhouse Studios.
Bedroom Community was described by Drowned in Sound as "one of the best guarantors of quality, even importance, out there" known for its "emotionally powerful music"; previously, they had called it "[t]he best record label in the whole of Iceland and maybe even the entire world." The Line of Best Fit has described the label as "more of an ecosystem cultivating music than a traditional record label", claiming that "within ten years they've gone from being a side concern for a bunch of preternaturally talented composers and producers to become one of the most respected record labels in... the world?"
Media and performances In 2011, Pierre-Alain Giraud made a documentary film called Everything Everywhere All The Time, which follows Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, and Valgeir Sigurðsson on their collective tour, showcasing the music they've collaborated on and released individually under the Bedroom Community umbrella. The documentary was premiered at the Reykjavík International Film Festival, followed by screenings at places such as CPH:DOX and Iceland Airwaves.
In 2016, to celebrate the label's 10th anniversary, a number of artists embarked on another Whale Watching Tour - this time travelling to the USA. Bedroom Community founder Valgeir Sigurðsson commented that: "The Whale Watching Tour is an opportunity to manifest what we, as a record label and a collective of disparate musical personalities, do...to create something uniquely belonging to the live experience, from source material that is very familiar to us.These shows are fuelled by joyful energy and appreciation for each other, but also tension, blood and sweat that makes it all the more rewarding at the end of the day."
At Iceland Airwaves 2016, Bedroom Community performed music from their back catalogue with Crash Ensemble, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and conductor André De Ridder at Harpa. Ja Ja Ja Music said that the performance was 'Diverse and powerful", adding that "there was something to and arrest at every stage of the evening's programme, serving as a great testament to everything the label has achieved over the last 10 years, and an enticing statement of intent for what is surely to come."
Artists Valgeir Sigurðsson Nico Muhly Ben Frost Paul Corley Sam Amidon Daníel Bjarnason Puzzle Muteson Nadia Sirota James McVinnie Emily Hall Manchester Collective Rakhi Singh
Associates Daniel Lopatin Jónsi Nathan Salon Tim Hecker
Releases 2021: Jónsi: Obsidian 2021: Valgeir Sigurðsson: Kvika 2020: Lyra Pramuk: Fountain 2020: Tilman Robinson: Culturecide 2019: Viktor Orri Árnason & Yair Elazar Glotman: Vast 2019: Daniel Pioro: Dust 2019: Costyoume: Pan 2018: Nakata7: Cholera 2018: Sam Slater: Wrong Airport Ghost 2018: Puzzle Muteson: Swum 2018: aYia: aYia 2017: Valgeir Sigurðsson: Dissonance 2017: Crash Ensemble: Ghosts 2017: Nadia Sirota: Tessellatum 2017: James McVinnie: Cycles_1 2016: Ben Frost: The Wasp Factory 2016: aYia: Water Plant 2016: Nico Muhly: Keep In Touch 2016: Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurðsson: Scent Opera 2015: Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete 2015: Jodie Landau and Wild Up: You of All Things 2015: Emily Hall: Folie à Deux 2014: Ben Frost: V A R I A N T 2014: Puzzle Muteson: Theatrics 2014: Ben Frost: A U R O R A 2013: Daníel Bjarnason: Over Light Earth 2013: James McVinnie: Cycles 2013: Frost & Sigurðsson & Muhly & Amidon: "Everything Everywhere All The Time" / "Whale Watching Tour" 2013: Nadia Sirota: Baroque 2012: Nico Muhly: Drones 2012: Paul Corley: Disquiet 2012: Valgeir Sigurðsson: Architecture of Loss 2011: Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason: Sólaris 2011: Puzzle Muteson: En Garde 2010: Nico Muhly: I Drink The Air Before Me 2010: Sam Amidon: I See The Sign 2010: Valgeir Sigurðsson: Draumalandið 2010: Daníel Bjarnason: Processions 2009: Ben Frost: By The Throat 2008: Nico Muhly: Mothertongue 2007: Sam Amidon: All is Well 2007: Valgeir Sigurðsson: Ekvílíbrium 2007: Ben Frost: Theory of Machines 2006: Nico Muhly: Speaks Volumes
References
External links Bedroom Community YouTube Interview with Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost.