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Sigur Rós Leave Beacon Theatre Crowd Speechless

Sigur Rós – Beacon Theatre – August 16, 2023

Some concerts you go to listen to the music, some you go to see the sights and some you go to experience. Sigur Rós’s show at the Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night, a performance backed by the Wordless Music Orchestra, was an experience. When the massive ensemble took an intermission break after an hour of dense orchestral performance, the man sitting next to me simply said, “Speechless.” Others probably felt the opposite, racing to dictionaries and thesauruses to find the right adjectives — majestic, transcendent, otherworldly, sublime — to properly capture the music. 

The large ensemble, dozens of string players and more joining the Icelandic trio, moved slowly, painting the venue’s sonic canvas with broad brushstrokes of sound. The show was a study in contrasts, big and loud, yet feeling small and quiet on pieces like “Starálfur,” off their 1999 album, Ágætis byrjun. Instead of swallowing and overwhelming the core band, the addition of an orchestra served to highlight. Jónsi’s voice sailed like a boat across a current of violins and cellos. The warm lighting bathed the stage in golden yellows and soft blues, beautifully silhouetting the musicians.

The Wordless Music Orchestra did the same thing for Sigur Rós, musical silhouettes of repeated piano lines on “Dauðalogn” and “Untitled #1 (Vaka)” bathed in the warm sonic strings that filled the stage. The audience was mostly edge-of-the-seat rapt, stirred only by excitement for favorites, like “Hoppípolla,” providing pure melodic joy late in the second set, huge swells of sound rendering them speechless or with too much to say, an experience through and through. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Sigur Rós play Kings Theatre on Friday.)

(Sigur Rós play Boch Center in Boston on Saturday.)

Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | @Silvia_Saponaro

Kjartan Sveinsson quitting Sigur Rós only to stay aboard producing Kveikur and now apparently carrying the entire eighth album on his back is an energy that I want in life

Hermit's Lair - Human Antithesis https://t.me/Human_Antithesis

Auðn - Vökudraumsins fangi (October 30th, 2020) Country: Iceland Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal Reuploaded: FLAC

Lineup:

Hjalti Sveinsson - Vocals

Hjálmar Gylfason - Guitars

Aðalsteinn Magnússon - Guitars

Andri Björn Birgisson - Guitars

Matthías Hlífar Mogensen - Bass

Sigurður Kjartan Pálsson - Drums

Guest/Session:

Arnaldur Ingi Jónsson - Hammond Organ

Magnús Jóhann Ragnarsson - Grand Piano, Mellotron

Miscellaneous Staff:

Víðir Mýrmann - Artwork

Daria Endresen - Photography

Jens Bogren - Mixing, Mastering

Stephen Lockhart - Recording

Þorvaldur Guðni Sævarsson - Layout

Label: Season of Mist

Tracklist:

Einn um alla tíð - 08:15

Eldborg - 04:09

Birtan hugann brennir - 05:33

Verður von að bráð - 05:50

Drepsótt - 03:16

Næðir um - 05:04

Horfin mér - 06:41

Á himin stara - 03:45

Ljóstýra - 05:54

Vökudraumsins fangi - 06:42

From Anne Carson article published on Nov 17th (not sure how recent the info is though) :

‘Carson is currently in Iceland with her partner and collaborator, artist Robert Currie, to organize “a musical/theatrical work of some (as yet unknown) kind” based on the book. It will feature....Kjartan Sveinsson (the keyboardist for Sigur Rós), and British actor Ben Whishaw’

ahhh thanks nonnie! i'm so hyped for this. anne did the version of bakkhai ben was in as well as norma jean baker of troy, and they both did the oscar wilde reading gaol thing too. their collabs are always insane. can't wait for this, whenever we get it.

but i feel absolutely sick that we were this close to a ben/björk collab! what do i have to do to make this happen?!?! ahhhhhh 😭😭😭 this is like when tanya tagaq collabed w björk and then started gushing over ben and polly on insta. the universe just refuses to give me what i want!!!!!!! so close yet so far

full article here if anyone wants to read it

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 tracks and tag 10 people

Tagged by @pumpking64 🐦‍⬛

1. Moon - Ben Laver

2. I'll keep coming - Low Roar

3. Persist and Persevere - Rob mcAllister

4. Parliament of Owls - Agnes Obel

5. Begin Again - ABBOTT

6. Japan - BOMBYX

7. Summer Clouds - How Great Were The Robins

8. brot - Ólafur Arnalds

9. Barcarole - Felix Rösch

10. Teil I - Kjartan Sveinsson

Tagging @shunshuntaiga @quinbi @weardes and whoever wants to share some music!

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• After watching Love, Death + Robots with @nemzs I drew one of the protagonists of the animations of the volumes [the theme of the episode is so beautiful]

• I recommend you watch it if you're not too impressionable, it's a complete +18

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teil I by kjartan sveinsson aka the sound of slowly slipping into madness

After more than a decade between releases, Icelandic cinematic post-rock masters Sigur Rós are back with a brand new studio album!

"Few bands cut through the noise and distractions of the world to bring you a pure elemental truth or feeling like Sigur Rós. As you hear on ÁTTA, there’s a new compulsion and drive to the band that comes with the new formation of the line up. Multi-instrumentalist Kjartan Sveinsson is back in the fold – having left the band in 2012 – to join frontman Jónsi and bassist Georg Holm.

Recorded across multiple continents - in the band’s Sundlaugin studio in Iceland, the legendary Abbey Road in the UK and a number of studios in the US - ÁTTA leans heavily towards the orchestral, and touches on everything that has made Sigur Rós one of the most ambitious and acclaimed bands of recent times, with close to ten million albums sold, whilst signposting an exciting and expansive possibility for their future."

Sigur Rós - Átta - Out today and in-stock now on Black 2xLP ($75) and CD ($25). We're also expecting a late delivery of Limited Edition Yellow 2xLP ($85) so get in touch if you'd like to secure a copy.

#sigurros#atta

UNDER THE RADAR: Sigur Rós share “Blóðberg,” first new single in 7 years.

UNDER THE RADAR: Sigur Rós share “Blóðberg,” first new single in 7 years. “Sigur Rós are back with their first new music in more than seven years, as well as their first music since Kjartan Sveinsson rejoined the band. “Blóðberg” is sweeping, ethereal, and orchestral, and according to the press release, “potentially signposts the way to a promised new album, the band’s first in a decade” which…

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Sigur Ros - ÁTTA Dafür, dass ein neues Sigur-Rós-Album schon lange avisiert war, ging dessen Erscheinen gestern wenig spektakulär über die Bühne. Erst vor wenigen Tagen war die erste „ÁTTA“-Auskopplung zugänglich, schon steht ihr achtes Studiowerk in den Online-Regalen. Die Rückkehrer Kjartan Sveinsson, Georg Hólm und Frontmann Jón Þór „Jónsi“ Birgisson befassen sich zehn Jahre nach „Kveikur“ – dem […] https://www.musikblog.de/2023/06/sigur-ros-atta/ #Jónsi #SigurRós #Album #AlternativePop #Avantgarde #PostRock

Sigur Rós släpper nytt studioalbum den 16 juni

Sigur Rós bekräftar idag att deras första riktiga studioalbum på ett decennium och deras åttonde album ATTÁ släpps 16 juni. Det är ett genomgripande vackert och intimt album innehållande 10 titlar inspelade på flera kontinenter - i bandets hemstudio på Island, de legendariska Abbey Road Studios i Storbritannien och flera studior i USA. Den första låten som släpptes från albumet, 'Blóðberg', släpptes i måndags och finns att streama nu. Få band skär igenom världens brus och distraktioner som Sigur Rós. På albumet ÁTTA finns ett nytt driv som kommer från nybildningen med multiinstrumentalisten Kjartan Sveinsson som är tillbaka i fållan – efter att ha lämnat bandet 2012 – tillsammans med frontmannen Jónsi och basisten Georg Holm. “With just the three friends in a room, letting the mood speak to them, they found themselves “just wanting to have minimal drums and for the music to be really sparse, floaty and beautiful,” förklarar Jónsi. “We’re getting older and more cynical so I just wanted to move us so that we felt something!” Kjartan Sveinsson håller med “We wanted to allow ourselves to be a bit dramatic and go far with these arrangements. The world needs that right now. It’s hard to describe, but for me everything is always open to interpretation. People can think and feel how they want.”  Albumet är inspelat på flera kontinenter, i bandets Sundlaugin studio på Island, legendariska Abbey Road i Storbritannien och ett antal studior i USA – ÁTTA är mer orkestral, och berör allt som har gjort Sigur Rós till en av de mest ambitiösa och hyllade band på senare tid, med nära tio miljoner sålda album. På ÁTTA medverkar London Contemporary Orchestra under ledning av Robert Ames och samarbetar med isländska Brassagat í bala. Det är blandat och co-producerat av en annan frekvent medarbetare Paul Corley, tillsammans med bandet. I en post-pandemivärld splittrad av krig, ekonomisk turbulens, kulturkrig och brutal splittring, ÁTTA känns som balsam och förenande band. “It’s what the music asked for and spoke for itself,” säger Hólm.“This record sounds like a SigurRós album, but it’s more introverted than before. It’s very expansive with this sound of strings, but it looks within more than outside.”Även för Jónsi, både Sigur Rós och ÁTTA existerar bara rent i – speglar tiden då vi kanske behöva dem mest. “When we do this, we always talk about each album as if it might be the last,” he adds. “We’re always thinking about climate change, doom-scrolling and going to hell. The world felt a bit bleak making this album, but maybe there is hope. When there is darkness, there is light.” Sigur Rós – ÁTTA Låtlista 1. Glóð 2. Blóðberg 3. Skel 4. Klettur 5. Mór 6. Andrá 7. Gold 8. Ylur 9. Fall 10. 8Sigur Rós kommer att fira ÁTTA med ett begränsat antal mycket speciella konserter med en 41 st stor orkester första gången i Europa och Nordamerika; alla konserterna sålde slut på rekordtid. Turnén drar igång på Meltdown Festival i Storbritannien på releasedagen för albumet 16 juni. Bandet kommer att uppträda med London Contemporary Orchestra, som också ackompanjerar dem vidare på deras Europaturné. De kommer sen att spela tillsammans med Wordless Music Orchestra i Nordamerika. Alla konserterna kommer att ledas av Rob ASmes.  För mer information om Sigur Rós: https://sigurros.com/ För intervjuer kontakta: Anette Ståhl / Enmusa Music, tel: 0707-180 120 [email protected] För mer information: Ulrika Hammar / BMG, tel 0705–295 312 [email protected]