RAKELIS

RAKEL is an Icelandic artist working in song, memory, and atmosphere. Her music folds voice, field recording, and emotion into layered compositions that feel intimate and expansive. Since her debut EP Nothing Ever Changes (2021), she has become a quietly singular presence in Icelandic music, performing with artists like Nanna (Of Monsters and Men), Axel Flóvent, and Kaktus Einarsson.

Her debut album a place to be is part diary, part landscape. Co-created with Danish producer and longtime collaborator Sara Flindt, it's shaped by the acoustics of real places (her family's farm in Hrútafjörður, Sara's dorm room in Copenhagen, a studio in Aarhus) woven into songs that resist structure and resolution. Birds, clocks, breath, strings, soft synths, the creak of a floorboard: nothing is too small to be part of the composition.

RAKEL's work doesn't explain itself. It invites you into a space where thought becomes sound, memory becomes movement, and music becomes a place to be.