Music Monday: Jónsi
Mar 01.10 /
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The debut solo album “Go” from Jónsi of Sigur Rós is being released April 5th!! I have been a long time fan of Sigur Rós, just look at my play count for them on my last.fm – it is over 15,000.. 2x more then anyone else on my list! So when I say that I am very excited about Jónsi’s new album, I am so serious! Full screen the video below! It is great and crazy and just gave me the goosebumps. I think it is summed up saying it is sheer happiness exploding from the speakers! You can also listen to some of the new stuff before it is out here or here.
go contains nine songs amassed from the large pool of songs written by jónsi during his many years with sigur rós. the album is sung in english and icelandic, and was co-produced by jónsi, his partner alex somers and peter katis (the national, interpol).
when he began working on go, jónsi initially thought he would be making a low-key, acoustic album until, as he says, “somewhere along the line, it just sort of exploded.” that explosion resulted in sheer aural fireworks. not a straight ahead pop record, nor rock, folk, ambient or electronic, it encompasses all of these to create an expansive musical palette that’s been brought to life by jónsi alongside a number of free-spirited collaborators.
chief among these is nico muhly, the philip glass protégé who is renowned for his work with björk, antony & the johnsons, bonnie “prince” billy and grizzly bear. muhly has arranged all the songs on go, bringing strings, brass and woodwind to dance playfully alongside his offbeat piano playing. add into the mix the percussive genius of samuli kosminen, whose original drumming powers many of the songs along, and you have a sonic landscape that bears little relation to anything else around today, yet explodes from the speakers with sheer happiness and wonder, wide-eyed and eager to be heard. [via]
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