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Words & Pictures: Chris Mayes-Wright
From grand pianos and string quartets to synthesisers, there’s just one thing on this producer’s mind. Ólafur Arnalds admits that, at age 10, he didn’t know what a producer was, but it’s all he ever wanted to be. “The guy behind the scenes, who does everything but doesn’t need to get his face on the front cover,” recalls Ólafur, who at a young age would scour album sleeves to discover which producers worked on which records. “I would always see the same producers working with different bands. They each had their own sound, and for me that was really interesting.”
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