GYDA VALTYSDOTTIR shares gossamer, slow-burning album title track "Mother Pearl". Record out March 20th on marvada.

GYDA VALTYSDOTTIR - Shares new single "Mother Pearl"   written with Sigur Rós' Kjartan Sveinsson - Title track from forthcoming album - Out March 20th on marvada - Confirmed to score Residente's forthcoming movie Porto Rico

Photo credit: Saga Sig    Today Gyda Valtysdottir shares the title track of her forthcoming album ‘Mother Pearl’, which is set for release on March 20th via marvada. The new single comes as Valtysdottir is confirmed to score Residente's forthcoming movie Porto Rico, starring Bad Bunny, Edward Norton, Javier Bardem and Viggo Mortensen. New album 'Mother Pear' is a luminous meditation on creation, connection and inner life. Across its carefully woven songs, Gyda Valtysdottir considers how we remain open, empathetic and sensitive without being weighed down by the world. Today she shares the gossamer, slowly unfurling title track, "Mother Pearl", commenting: "Life is a miracle, existence is a miracle, reality is a miracle, technology is a miracle, creation is a miracle. The song was co-composed by a miracle, effortlessly with a dear friend Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Rós), the last song to be written for the album & it ended up becoming the title song." Listen to "Mother Pearl" single: https://youtu.be/k-wBzQowwP8 Other 'Mother Pearl' album links: https://found.ee/gyda-valtysdottir "Mother Pearl" is the fourth track from the album to be released online, following the primatic introspection of “White Noise”, the enchanting, meandering “Mirror” and the punchy electronics of “Checking In”. The music on 'Mother Pearl' is built from delicate textures and voice-led gestures that move with a quiet, embodied clarity, embracing the listener in spaces that feel both intimate and expansive. Like a finely spun web, the songs appear fragile at first glance, yet reveal a resilient, intricate strength beneath their opaline surfaces. Gyda’s voice, vulnerable yet powerful, encounters cello, harp and electronics in ways that feel revealing rather than ornamental, giving form to emotional and conceptual nuance. There is something unguarded in its delivery, a potent and assured sense of closeness that draws the listener into the song rather than projecting outward.   The album was written in Iceland, Belgium, California and New York City, and the record itself assembled in bedrooms, studios and a summer cabin. At its heart lies the idea of emergence — the place where something enters being from a kind of silent potential — and the title track embodies this idea as “a seed, is potential, is a gift, is… a fertile egg waiting to become.”   Gyda’s collaborators imbue the album with a rich harmonic and textural life: Merope's Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė and Bert Cools bring the ancient iridescence of the kanklės, guitar and subtle synth colours; Alex Sopp brings her melodic wind voices; Julian Sartorius plays drums; and harpist Katie Buckley adds luminescent lines. Gyda’s partner Úlfur Hansson recorded the album, played bass, Moog and other instruments, and shaped the cello arrangements and mixes with his distinctive touch.    Gyda Valtysdottir’s music has long invited deep listening. Classically trained yet unbound by genre, she dissolves conventional boundaries between electronic, chamber and improvised music, reimagining them as a coherent, organic flow. She first emerged as a founding member of the electronic dream-pop band múm in her teens before leaving to pursue her own musical path. At 22 she bought a one-way ticket to St. Petersburg to study cello at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, later completing a double master’s degree in classical performance and free improvisation across Russia, Germany and Switzerland. Her first solo album, Epicycle (2017), presented highly personal interpretations of classical works, followed by Epicycle II (2020), a constellation of collaborations with some of Iceland’s most distinctive musical voices. With Evolution (2018) and Ox (2021), Gyda turned fully to her own compositions, blending her classical training, improvisational fluency and electronic sensibilities into original, deeply expressive music — a journey that now finds its next chapter in Mother Pearl.   This is Gyda’s third album of entirely original music. It comes at a transformational moment: the ending of a decade-long relationship and a return to Iceland after two decades of living elsewhere. 'Mother Pearl' looks inward without retreating, making space for tenderness, reflection and the subtle alchemy of becoming. 'Mother Pearl' track list: 1. Mother Pearl - stream 2. White Noise - stream 3. Open Poem 4. Living Waters 5. Mirror - video | stream 6. Checking In - stream 7. Riverbed 8. Horizon 9. Potency 'Mother Pearl' artwork (click for high res): Links: https://gydadiamond.net/ https://gyda.bandcamp.com/track/mirror https://www.instagram.com/gydatru/ https://www.facebook.com/gydavaltys/