Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Another Sigur Ros Convert
The personal impact of finally checking these guys out closely is kind of like discovering a fountain pen when they are in about the fourth or fifth grade. I have not heard a music in quite some time that had as much mystery and this kind of sense of danger that you might end up liking it a little too much and not being quite the same afterwards. If find myself quickly getting fully immersed in the falsetto callings and bowed electric guitar of Jónsi” Birgisson bleeding over a soundscape with at least two or three rhythmic elements over a soundscape long extended tones evoking high drama and some poignancy.
I haven't even really scratched the surface of the output of these folks, but I'm glad encouragement of a work colleague and his wife to see what they might be about. They first told me about Sigur Ros' documentary of concerts they put on throughout their native Iceland called Heima. It seems to be stalled in Netflix's land of Very Long Wait. So thank the web for YouTube. Embedded here is the finale (because sometimes I find it takes going to the end first to get started) of a concert in Reykjavik and also probably the finale of the film itself. This last part of a tune from their () album (yes, the name of the album is empty parentheses, how cool is that?) that was first untitled then given the name Popplagi (the pop song.)
Their music to me at this moment seems a bit like Sound Tribe Sector Nine being gene spliced to Pink Floyd with some prog rock Bjorky seasonings, but I have the sense that the more one stays ear open and digs further with a journey through their fourteen year history and into their current album which, according to Wikipedia is called " Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (in English: "With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly")" the more one's relationship with their music will change and morph.
Regardless, I'm convinced we should go see these folks when they come to Portland in October. I'm getting a bit older, I guess, when I became disappointed to find out they were going to be here on a Monday night, but that potential agony was assuaged by the fact that it will be in the Arlene Schnitzer concert Hall, which means it will be over at 10:30 instead of starting at such a time only applicable to those in their twenties and a few really hearty souls.
posted by well-executed buffet at 11:59 PM
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