Biography

Vardi is a composer, guitarist and vocalist. He composes ethereal songs, employs industrial electronics, and performs psychotic mood improvisations. While firmly rooted in ambient soundscapes and pop/rock songwriting, there remains an underlying noisy intensity, industrializing the organic.

Vardi began learning how to play the guitar from his father at the age of 8. Soon after that he began writing his own lyrics to his own songs. He recorded music, first with a deck-to-deck overdub technique, then a 4 track. Vardi eventually started studying jazz at FIH school of music where he first got into contact with freejazz, an interest which stays with him to this day.

Together with collaborator Jon Indridason he wrote music for a play in his high school with called "Las Casas", which takes place during the Spanish Conquest. The result was an album of ambient soundscapes with a South American flavour. He spent the next years on further studies, playing in the electronic guitar/bass band Fortral, and starring as himself in the two movies, Vardi Goes on Tour (2001), and Vardi Goes Europe (2002).

He eventually enrolled in a composition program in the Iceland Academy of Arts. There he started playing with Stórsveit Nix Noltes, a Balkan band. He released a book of poetry, Spegilmynd Pśpunnar in 2003. He started working with the band Lķkn, towards releasing an LP. After an intense period of songwriting and rehearsing, they recorded it live in their own studio in the autumn of 2004, with minimum overdubs. The band built a solid foundation for expanding Vardi's compositions. The album was mixed and mastered in the early months of 2005, and is finally seeing the light of day this summer (2006).

Vardi graduated from the Arts Academy with a degree in composition in may 2006, and is working towards completing a new album together with friends Garšar on drums, and Gunna on bass.

Vardi's music from most of the mentioned projects is available on the site, under the music section.

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