I have browsed ProgArchives and I did not find a thread about the Icelandic musician Emiliana Torrini. There used to be a huge fan community of hers on the web, but since Facebook swallowed a lot, the fan forums about her are long gone.

Since ProgArchives is an amazing music community, I decided to start this thread.

For those who are not familiar with Emiliana, she is an Icelandic singer-songwriter with quite a diverse music catalog. She is best known for singing Howard Shore's "Gollum's Song" from the "Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers" soundtrack. The track itself shows Torrini's immense vocal capability.

Torrini became known in Iceland for singing in Television. In 1994 she was a part of an indie pop band Spoon, where she sung 4 songs: "Tomorrow", "Observing", "Brazilian Sky" and "Taboo". One year later she recorded her first solo album, "Crouçie D'Où Là", which, although consisting entirely of cover songs, benefits from a constant band line up and features instruments such as harmonica, contrabass, trumpet and vibraphone. The songs sound raw and are probably taken in one take.

Her second studio album, Merman, is the first album which features compositions by Torrini herself. In an interview for KCRW she described the record as "silly" and "theatrical".

Her third album, 1999's "Love In The Time Of Science", is an electronica/trip-hop album which Torrini herself descirbes as a pop record. There were a lot of comparisons to Bjork at that time, but mostly because of both being Icelandic.

Torrini's fourth album is 2005's beautiful and stripped-down acoustic album "Fisherman's Woman". There's nothing like it. It's folk, it's raw, her voice is extremely beautiful.

2008's album "Me and Armini" reminds at times of Fisherman's woman, but it's more alternative rock (Gun, Heard It All Before), reggae (Me and Armini) and pop (Jungle Drum). The song Jungle Drum became an actual hit across Europe, which she deserved.

In 2013 she released her sixth and to this date last solo album, "Tookah", which is a mixture of folk and stripped-down synth-pop.

2016's semi-live album "The Colorist and Emiliana Torrini" is a collaboration with the Colorist Orchestra, and features material from her 2005, 2008 and 2013 albums, performed together with the Orchestra. The album is amazing and is highly recommended if you like a more experimental approach when it comes to pop music.

In 2017 she collaborated with Canadian DJ Kid Coala and released "Music To Draw To: Satellites". The album is reminiscent to her Love In The Time Of Science from 1999, very atmospheric and  ambient.

If I have to describe Emiliana's singing, there is only one artist who had sort of a similar singing style, yet different - Katie Melua. She might have a similar accent to Bjork, but that's only because they are both Icelandic, I don't hear that much of similarities between them.

Any fans of this lovely lady? Here are some sneak peaks:

Spoon:

Croucie:

Merman:

Love In The Time Of Science:

Fisherman's Woman:

Me and Armini:

Tookah:

Colorist:

Music To Draw To: Satellite:

Other songs: