Here is a text from Gulli Björnsson, the composer of DYNJANDI that you are about to hear. “When Jiji asked me to compose something for her album she asked for something virtuosic. I remember saying back "are you sure? Ok, I'm going to make you practice a lot then!". As I was contemplating what to compose I was driving from a recording session that I did in the west-fjords of Iceland (my home country), an area I'd never really been to before. In an uninhabited fjord I saw the most amazing sight, the magnificent waterfall Dynjandi (or Fjallfoss) near Hrafnseyri. The intense beauty of the waterfall stuck with me and became my inspiration as I tried to capture the essence of this waterfall in some way through virtuosic music. Dynjandi cascades down a mountainside creating a total of 7 waterfalls, the form of the music is in 7 sections. The core of the work is two voice ostinato-based counterpoint that’s presented in three different ways throughout the piece: spiral arpeggios, fugal counterpoint and clusters. I was thinking of how the water travels down the mountain side; the irregular spiral arpeggios of the piece represent the different irregular sub-sections of each waterfall, the slow sections represent the still pools between the waterfalls and the clusters link it together.”