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REYKJAVIK SHUFFLE

from American Dream by This Mad Desire

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about

Morganblaðið is the major daily newspaper in Iceland like the NY Times except it covers the whole country (NYT can probably lay claim to something like that too, maybe...). Steinþór Guðbjartsson was nicelandic enough to promote a concert/video screening I was doing in Reykjavik at Bio Paradis (RIP) for Paris of Love and Paris Amoureux (which appear in this album as "bonus tracks"). Given that I was promoting songs about Paris, France, he thought it might be cheeky to suggest that I write songs about cities and (laughingly) maybe the next one might be the Reykjavik Shuffle. I say, "Ask and ye shall receive!"

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i want you to be closer to me. i want you to feel the things we see. the plane is off the ground. we fly the speed of sound just to be free. you’ve gotta let it move your bones. everywhere we are we’re coming home. it’s a little dance we do, an icelandic romance to pull us through.

do the reykjavik shuffle.

eyjafjallajokull volcano hidden in the land of ice and snow. across the lava rock so hot we cannot talk as the aurora glows. we’ll take you to the blue lagoon and swim like fish beneath the moon. then we dream on down the street, another party to get to.

do the reykjavik shuffle. (or the gimli glide...)

we found a place where the huldufolk won’t find us. another tropicool place where the people won’t mind us.

credits

from American Dream, released June 25, 2020
Music and Lyrics written by Mackenzie Kristjon.
Produced by Mackenzie Kristjon.
Vocals and instruments performed and recorded by Mackenzie Kristjon at the Hamilton Public Library in Hamilton, Canada.
Mastered by Phil Demetro at Lacquer Channel Studios in Toronto, Canada.
100% Mackenzie Kristjon Jenkyns SOCAN

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The music of Hamilton, Ontario-based Mackenzie Kristjon. Like "Neil Young on David Bowie drugs". For more info, please contact macsonfire@gmail.com

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