WHERE TO FROM Hildur Guðnadóttir | Deutsche Grammophon

Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir’s releases her new album Where to From. The work is shaped by deep friendships and consists of nine intimate and contemplative original pieces. Following her worldwide success with the soundtracks of “Joker” and the HBO mini-series “Chernobyl”, this is her first studio album for DG.  

Where to From grew from musical diary entries, some little more than melodic snippets, that Guðnadóttir sang into her phone’s voice recorder – traces of what she calls “the constant stream of music” that flows through her mind. When the time felt right, she turned to her collection, chose melodies that felt ripe for development and spent a month transforming them into exquisitely crafted compositions.  

“The original seeds were planted in my phone across six or seven years,” she recalls. “After working on so many film soundtracks, it was interesting to take a completely different look at the way music comes to me. There’s a lot of space in the music that’s playing in my head, which I realised from listening to these phone recordings is the mind-space I would generally like to be in.”  

The album is released digitally, on CD and on vinyl; the album art is by Gisèle Vienne.