A short bio

 Sigtryggur Baldursson and Birgir Mogensen are lifelong friends from Kópavogur, Iceland, who started out as mates on the local football team, then graduated to making music together as teenagers, and even later as young men doing time in the experimental punk collective KUKL, from 1983 - 1986. KUKL was populated by survivors of the post punk scene in Iceland in the early 80´s, which is well documented in the film Rock in Reykjavik from 1982. The band was released by the Crass collective in London and featured members, apart from Birgir and Sigtryggur, like Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Einar Melax, Björk and Einar Örn, some of whom would become better known later in outfits like the Sugarcubes and their respective solo work and other collaborations.Media
 

A shared musical upbringing in their formative years brought Birgir and Sigtryggur back together to create the duet Paddan, which now releases this EP named Fluid Time, and has been inspired by their perception of time and space. 

"As a duo we trusted our musical  intuition and were guided by allowing the first idea to remain unchanged during the recording process"

All recordings are played on live instruments except a modular synth which is programmed in the background of two tracks i.e. Bug and Splash.

Recorded, produced and arranged by the pair, Sigtryggur and Birgir play basses and drums along with various other instruments.

They are joined by the eminent harmonica and lap steel wielding Gaukur Davidsson on two tunes, Vaguely and Bug,  and trumpet maestro Eirikur Orri Ólafsson on Splash, not to mention the mixing expertise of Vaccines bassist Arni Hjörvar Árnason on three tunes, Bug, Splash and Kokka, and sound wizard Albert Finnbogason on Vaguely.

The EP Fluid Time will be released by Washington DC based record label 

Lovitt Records on 10th. of May 2024.