Masterkey Studios

11/07/2025

Thank you so much Amoeba Hollywood 🙏

The Swell Season Official just released their first new album in 16 years! The artistic interplay between Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová sparks with an incendiary beauty on "Forward." Vocals sound at times haunted and delicate, at others, fiery and implacable. The melodies have a similar stirring quality: Just as you feel lulled by the gentle loveliness of the folksy sounds, an underlying fervor brings barely restrained intensity.

Swell Season's fierce, defiant, and fantastic "Forward" is out now on CD and ivory vinyl via Masterkey Studios.

[Vinyl available in-store and online.]

20/09/2024

This beauty is finally out there in the world. Hope you will give it a listen and enjoy the journey ❤️ Massive thanks to everyone involved in helping us bring this to you - MALINDA, Marja Gaynor, Manuel Barreto, Peter Moc - Sigga Soffía Níelsdóttir & Marino Thorlacius - you all live rent free in my mind, heart and soul ❤️
Markéta Irglová once again you have entrusted me to help you sculpt your creation - you have my deepest gratitude and respect, always. Thank you 🙏

Listen to Mona Lisa by Markéta Irglová, MALINDA.

02/12/2023

We at Masterkey Sounds just released a Christmas song.. Another beauty by Markéta Irglová

Hope this song helps to bring you comfort and joy now that the holidays are getting near.

In the mids of working on her next solo record, a couple of film projects and preparing for the next round of Swell Season recording sessions, this song came to Marketa a couple of weeks ago. So we pushed everything aside for a week and got to work!

We were fortunate to get our brilliant string playing friends to come over on super short notice. Thank you,
Una Sveinbjarnardóttir
Ása Gudjonsdottir Skelton
Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir
Sigurgeir Agnarsson

Our good friend Palli got a superb choir together for us, and we are so grateful to each and every one of them for coming to the studio and sing for us on a Sunday afternoon. Thank you,
Sara Grims
Ásta Marý Stefánsdóttir
Ella Camille Budzinski
Svanfríður Hlín Gunnarsdóttir
Páll Sólmundur Eydal
Karl Hjaltason
Gísli Gamm
Ragnar Pétur Jóhannsson

We are blessed to know you all and grateful that we do. Thank you for sharing your magic on this song :)

Listen to My Happy Place by Markéta Irglová.

11/09/2023

Can’t believe I got to participate in the creation of this album! So proud and happy it’s finally out there in the world 🥳🥳🥳

¡MAMBÓ! komin á sjédé og dreifiveitur 🤩 out now on CD and streaming platforms 🔥

Very special guests / einstakir gestir: Sólveig Morávek & Matthías Hemstock.
Recording and mixing / upptökur og mix: Masterkey Studios, Mio Þórisson
Master: Kjartan Kjartansson
Hönnun: Alfreð Alfreð Alfreð
Ljósmynd: Lilja Birgisdóttir

Spotify; https://open.spotify.com/artist/77yVZNJvY82U2ajzpsmd2V?si=M8GEkMpvQb6f6o9VfY5hJw

Komið og fagnið og dansið með okkur í kvöld 26.08.23 á útgáfutónleikum á Reykjavík Jazz Festival , www.reykjavikjazz.is

11/09/2023

😊 😊 😊

So fun recording vocals for our friend Kati Rán at Masterkey Studios with Mio Þórisson on Tuesday. Long and productive day at our favourite studio! 🫶🏼

Kati Rán Gudbjorg Hlin Gudmundsdottir Arngerður María Árnadóttir Lilja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir Alexandra Kjeld

24/03/2023

Very excited this one is finally coming out into the world.. Been planning this remake since the first tour I did with Marketa 10 years ago where she blew me away with her live version of If You Want Me. Over the years we have tweaked and finessed the performance and sound through performing it at every single live show until we finally got into the studio with it last year with some amazing musicians and the results are almost out of our hands to your ears 😊

All you need to do is click the link, and press that pre-save button with the Spotify logo and as soon as the song is released it’ll automatically pop up in your Spotify library.

Easy process but would help us out a lot 🙏❤️

New version of the beloved song by Marketa Irglova from the movie Once

15/11/2022

Lila is now available on both vinyl LP and CD (which comes in a nice hardcover lyrics book) through our Bandcamp page - check out this link for more info:

https://marketa-irglova.bandcamp.com/album/lila

Lots of warmth and love to you all. Have a happy day filled with luck and new adventures.

10 track album

09/07/2021

When Marketa and I had just recently opened Masterkey Studios, we were visited by the brilliant Isabella Bretz and Rodrigo Lana. Meeting them both instantly felt like finally seeing friends that we’ve know for ages but haven’t seen in a long time. They performed for a small audience in our Live Room, songs that she had written for poems from 8 different Portuguese speaking countries. Her incredible voice and Rodrigo’s genius piano playing left a lasting presence in our hearts and within the Spirit of our studio. I had the pleasure of recording the performance and we did further work on 4 of the songs the next day. I had always hoped we would work together on more projects - and when Isabella got in touch with me to ask if I would master her upcoming album, I felt not just excited but immensely proud that she would even think of me for that, with all the much more brilliant choices of people she could have easily gotten to do it. I hope that the result is what she hoped for. Her collaboration with Rodrigo and Fernando Braga Campos, and all the musicians involved, has created this. I only helped give it the final polish. Thank you for including me dear Isabella.
I hope we get to see each other again soon and work on more music.

Isabella Bretz · Album · 2020 · 10 songs.

22/06/2021

Mother by Markéta Irglová and The Webb Sisters featuring Marja Gaynor, Patrick Dexter, Manuel Barreto, and MioVideo credits: Video Editing by Markéta Irglová...

12/06/2021

We are so happy to have participated in the recording process of “Right Here” with Emilíana and The Colorist Orchestra. Thank you for the trust and beautiful collaboration dear Emilíana, Aarich, Kobe and Jo, everyone in the Colorist Orchestra and KODO. Congratulations on it finally getting to reach new ears and minds 🥳🥳🥳

Belgian pop-music collective The Colorist Orchestra was founded in 2013 by Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans with the intent to be rearranged to accommodate a series of singer-songwriter collaborat…

04/06/2021

The title track for the theatre piece 'Vertu Úlfur' by Emiliana Torrini is out now on all streaming platforms! The song was written by Emilíana and Markéta Irglová with instrumental performances by Sturla Mio Þórisson and Valgeir Sigurðsson. Recording and mixing was done both at Masterkey Studios and here at Greenhouse Studios.

The music for the play 'Vertu Úlfur' was composed by Valgeir Sigurðsson with additional performances by Einar Scheving and Francesco Fabris. The piece is shown right now at the National Theatre of Iceland (Þjóðleikhúsið) featuring the amazing actor Bjorn Thors.

22/09/2020

Love this piece of mucis recorded in our studio, written and performed by Pat Jaffe, a bright young man, and very talented. The video is beautiful too, a soothing piece for the times we’re in. https://patjaffe.bandcamp.com/album/eldorado