Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson – Children Of Nature

It sounds like a sister album to "Island" of Current 93. Wonderful.
The "Fridrik Thor Fridriksson" film is also beautiful.
Question: The first two CD references on Discogs are the same, I don't understand why the first edition is shown twice.

The idea of this album is very nice, and the music is good, mainly consisting of echoey, melancholic themes combining real strings with atmospheric sounds from keyboards.

I just have a problem with the instrumentation. Digital keyboards (which are not synthesizers) from the '90s have a distinctive sound. Anyone who has one or who has listened to very much instrumental music from this era can easily recognize the crisp breath-y presets that these keyboards come with. It's hard to make them sound like anything else, so most musicians don't bother to even try. With other instruments, this sameness isn't a problem, but with these keyboards, it's really distracting, for some reason.

I will say that Hilmarsson does a great job with the tools he's working with, and some pieces, like "Sudurgata" are quite emotional and less preset-y than others. But nearly every song on this soundtrack has very common "stock" timbres that legions of post-New Age musicians made entire albums out of, and it makes me wish I didn't recognize these sounds, because I think I'd enjoy the album a lot more.