Monday, July 28, 2008
I'm headed to Colombia for a very quick business trip, back in the wee hours of Thursday morning. More about that tomorrow. Today, like any Monday, belongs to music....
But Who's Watching Reykjavik?

'Ethereal', 'classical', 'minimalist,' and 'pretty' are four adjectives frequently used to describe the band's style. A three-minute single like 'Gobbledigook' is unusually short for Sigur, who prefer to take seven or eight minutes to fully flesh out a musical idea.
The band's artiness extends to their album covers (example, pictured left) and video clips (featured below). Other quirks: song and album titles in the complex Icelandic language, and, as if that weren't enough, sometimes they sing in a gibberish of their own invention they call 'vonlenska' which they translate as 'Hopelandic.'
Below is some of their album art. 'Who's watching Reykjavik?' is a joke that Sigur Ros is reported to have made when they joined with Björk to give a concert in Northern Iceland to protest building an aluminum plant powered by the island's geothermal steam. Since 35,000 people attended the concert, literally 15% of Iceland's population, the group was wondering if anyone was home minding the store : - )


And now, the high-quality video clip for Gobbledigook, featuring superb cinematography and some nudity.....
Here's another beautiful, cinematic video to a relatively short Sigur Ros song, 'Hoppipolla'..
Finally, a good picture of the band visiting one of Iceland's many volcanoes...

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