Latin Faculty releases So Nice/Svo til
- deliriousagency
- May 9, 2025
- 2 min read
Latin Faculty is the brainchild of award winning Icelandic songsmith,
composer and moonlighting Author of literature INGVI ÞÓR KORMÁKSSON.
With over thirty years and fourteen albums to his own name, he has had
more than two hundred of his compositions recorded by various artists and
across genres. His predominantly Adult Contemporary style, often
incorporating jazzy chords, bossanova rhythms, folk traditions and blues
licks. He collaborated with friend and dearly departed Oxford music
mainstay John J Soul on four albums.
“We called our (JJ Soul Band‘s) music ‘Blues-conFusion’. There was Blues,
smelling of Jazz, a bit of Funk sometimes and even some Sambas“ - Ingvi.
The name Latin Faculty a.k.a LATÍNUDEILDIN is, like all great things, a
pun… and Ingvi’s humour is as deadpan as the music is classy and artful…
The award winning debut album in 2012 saw release in two forms: one in
Icelandic with 9 guest vocalists, the other a mix of English & Portuguese
lyrics - both executed with deft skill by a selection of Iceland’s finest jazz,
blues and pop players while featuring a couple of instrumentals too…
Now over a dozen years later a sequel is finally due - again to be delivered
as twins - one version vocal (in Icelandic) and one instrumental and again
melding blues, jazz & of course latin music influences. To say it’s a
welcome return is understatement as time has only made the writing,
arrangements and mastery sharper than ever arriving at in an era in which
these things are fast becoming a lost art in popular music!
“Since my teenage years I’ve admired the music of Brasil; Jobim, Bonfá,
Lins and many more Brazilian composers, and all the wonderful
vocalists. bossanova and samba rhythms have been featured on my
albums, even in the more blues or folk oriented ones.” - Ingvi
To introduce (or even reintroduce) you to the lush pleasures of Latin
Faculty, we present single ‘So Nice’ in all of its 3 forms - English, Icelandic
& Instrumental. Singer, Rebekka Blöndal, is the recipient of the Icelandic
Music Awards for vocal performance in Jazz, while Ingvi himself adds
more than 40 awards and merits from International songwriting
competitions to the fine pedigree of the song. The song itself exudes calm
and peacefulness in both it’s lyric and musical delivery.
Ingvi now lives a semi hermitic lifestyle with his wife and cat in Reykjavik
where he once worked at the city library. His love of literature has led him
to review books, translate them from English to Icelandic and write two
novels and a collection of short stories. He’s not easy to cajole from his
relaxing life & lovely wife but can be tempted to interviews if you are
interested talking about his music and certainly appreciates any attention
and coverage you can offer it. You could even say it would be SO NICE…
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