Artist
Eythor Gunnarsson
30 releases · 54 collaborators · 18 labels
- Real name
- Eyþór Gunnarsson
- Date active
- 1980 – 2015
- Relevance
- Extremely Low, very weak ties with the core dub techno cluster (here through one or more shared credits)
Bio
Icelandic jazz musician, pianist, keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and producer, born 9 September 1961.
He is internationally best known as a songwriter and keyboardist in the jazz funk/fusion band Mezzoforte, where he among other things wrote the hit song "Garden Party", which was the band's breakthrough in 1983.
Eyþór has an education in music from the University of Reykjavík, and has versatile experience from many different musical directions. He has established himself as the foremost jazz pianist in Icelandic jazz history, and collaborated with a number of people in jazz and jazz-related music, including touring as keyboardist with LAVA and Randy Crawford in Europe and Asia.
He is internationally best known as a songwriter and keyboardist in the jazz funk/fusion band Mezzoforte, where he among other things wrote the hit song "Garden Party", which was the band's breakthrough in 1983.
Eyþór has an education in music from the University of Reykjavík, and has versatile experience from many different musical directions. He has established himself as the foremost jazz pianist in Icelandic jazz history, and collaborated with a number of people in jazz and jazz-related music, including touring as keyboardist with LAVA and Randy Crawford in Europe and Asia.
Member of
Stuðmenn
7
Mezzoforte
Gaia (4)
Earth Affair
Tivoli
Ljósin Í Bænum
Borgardætur
Hinsegin Blús
Reykjavik Jazz Quartet
Benjamin Koppel New Nordic Quartet
Eythor Gunnarsson (Artist)
Label
Relevance
Releases
Active
- Releases: 9 Relevance: low Active: 1980 – 1985
- Releases: 3 Relevance: low Active: 1983
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 2012
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1996
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2015
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1996
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1981
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2009
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1989
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2004
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1996
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2013
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2013
- Releases: 3 Relevance: extremely low Active: 1983
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 2000
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 1983
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 2005
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 2004