![]() However, the Grand Master may award the Order without recommendations from the Order Council. A five-member council makes recommendations on awards to the Grand Master, who then grants the award. It may be awarded to both Icelanders and citizens of other countries for achievements in Iceland or internationally. The Republic of Iceland replaced the King by an elected President of Iceland who is the designated Grand Master of this Order. When Iceland became a republic, new statutes were incorporated for the Order on 11 July 1944. During his royal visit to Iceland in 1921, King Christian X issued the royal decree founding the Icelandic Order of the Falcon. Nowadays, appointments are made on the nomination of the President of Iceland and that of a "five-member council."Ĭhristian X, the King of Denmark, ruled Iceland until 17 June 1944. ![]() The award is awarded for merit for Iceland and humanity and has five degrees. Mauno were made in Halifax, but they're ready to take on the planet and galaxies beyond.The Order of the Falcon ( Icelandic: Hin íslenska fálkaorða) is the only order of chivalry in Iceland, founded by King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland on 3 July 1921. You're seeing something intricate and beautiful for the first time and it's completely contained within you." Produced by Nick Everett, mixed by Alex Shepard, Rough Master is a record you suspect won't be easily contained. Suddenly you know more than you did a second before and your mind is whirling, and there's no one around to tell. You're walking alone, your mind's wandering, thinking of nothing in particular, then BAM. "All my anger fell away and there I sat to think an hour or so on the war-torn colonnade." It's about enlightenment: "the feeling of a Eureka moment. "All along the Rue des Champs, on a sea of high-planed dreams," sings Nick on 'Champs'. You've bought pizza, a case of beer and everything's packed.Īs expected, none of your friends show up to help and you're left schlepping boxes alone all day, getting a bit too drunk," the band explains. 'Nothing' meanwhile is "about moving on a beautiful, sunny day. "It's Seinfeld, but what the hell isn't?" says Nick, adding they "pull a bit from everywhere." Completed by live drummer Adam White and live guitarist Scott Boudreau, Mauno's Rough Master is a journal of "the kind of music that's churning in our minds when we're not focused on grocery lists." Opener 'Reeling' sets the tone: a gentle lament at growing old that descends into a loose yet lush release before the chaos of 'Manitoba'. ![]() Over the course of Rough Master it strays from twisting grunge-pop on 'Again', to a breezy lilt on 'Champs', to piano ambience ('Pulses') and string-accompanied haze ('Reeling') elsewhere.īut then, what do you expect when Eliza has a background in classical cello and old R&B, while Nick boasts a record collection jammed with choral and folk? The result is an album that sounds like a windows-rolled-down summer road trip with the cast of Seinfeld.Įlaine doesn't want to listen to music, George is very focused on the road, Kramer is sporadically buzzing through his iPod listening to half-songs from every genre possible, and Jerry is reading whilst eating spicy Cheetos. I arrived here on a failed hitch-hiking trip and just keep getting drawn back." Rough Master, the group's smart, intricate new album, has at least this in common with the city where it was forged.įull of familiar and charming shimmery guitar-and less-familiar, somewhat absurd stories written over rueful meals in empty apartments-Rough Master is a record you too will just keep getting drawn back into.įormed in September 2014, Mauno - pronounced Mao-no, and named after bassist Eliza Niemi's adamantly unmusical Finnish grandfather - have a wandering sound that refuses to be pinned down. "At times, it's really boring, which I find useful for writing songs-not being distracted. "Halifax is a weird little town," says frontman Nick Everett of the Canadian peninsula they call home, where life unfolds in a slow-drift of tiny moments never more than a stone's throw from the sea. F boredom really does breed creativity, then Nova Scotia weirdo pop-rock sophisticates Mauno must be four intensely bored individuals. ![]()
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