Reptile (band), the Glossary
Reptile (Icelandic Risaeðlan) is a band from Iceland on the record label Bad Taste.[1]
Table of Contents
16 relations: A-side and B-side, Accordion, Bad Taste (record label), Banjo, Bass guitar, Drum kit, Guitar, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Iceland, Icelandic language, Keyboard instrument, Marimba, Pop music, Saxophone, The Sugarcubes, Violin.
- Icelandic pop music groups
A-side and B-side
The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.
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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
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Bad Taste (record label)
Bad Taste (known as Smekkleysa in Icelandic, literally Tastelessness) is an Icelandic independent record label located in Reykjavík, that also publishes poetry books, short films, greeting cards and Icelandic gifts.
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Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.
Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.
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Drum kit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums in popular music context) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and sometimes other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person.
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Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (born 12 October 1968) is an Icelandic actress and musician.
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Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
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Icelandic language
Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
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Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
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The Sugarcubes
The Sugarcubes (Sykurmolarnir) was an Icelandic alternative rock band from Reykjavík formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992.
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Violin
The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.
See also
Icelandic pop music groups
- Á Móti Sól
- Írafár
- Baggalútur
- Bang Gang
- Daysleeper (band)
- Elektra (band)
- Eurobandið
- Heart 2 Heart (band)
- ICY (band)
- Ingó og Veðurguðirnir
- Merzedes Club
- Nylon (band)
- Ourlives
- Reptile (band)
- Retro Stefson
- Sjonni's Friends
- Stjórnin
- Tappi Tíkarrass
- Todmobile
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile_(band)
Also known as Risæðlan.