Posts Tagged ‘jonsi’
Video: Jonsi at Boston’s House of Blues
May 8th, 2010 • Boston, Iceland, Video
Tags: jonsi
Here are some videos from the Jonsi show at the House of Blues in Boston on May 6, 2010.
Jonsi Photo Blog
May 8th, 2010 • Boston, Iceland, Photo Gallery
Tags: jonsi
I was fortunate to have attended a concert by Icelandic post-rock legend Jonsi in Boston’s House of Blues on May, 6 2010. It was one of the most stunning visual and audio experiences I have ever had. Check out these photos I snapped while there.
ALBUM REVIEW: “Go” by Jonsi
April 5th, 2010 • Album Review, Iceland, Rock
Tags: Go, jonsi, Sigur Ros
Among the best soundtracks of all time, people will inevitably cite The Graduate by Simon and Garfunkel or Henry Mancini’s work for The Pink Panther. There is indeed something to be said about these succinct, complete works of cinematic musical composition as they fit within the context of a single film.
You may well be asking yourself why exactly I am talking about film soundtracks given that Go by Sigur Ros frontman Jonsi is not a soundtrack (despite the extended documentary release that coincides with it). On some level, however, this new Jonsi album is a soundtrack without a film. When one listens to this album one cannot help but be taken to a world not our own in the depths of our own imagination. Go provides, for me, the audio track to the ramblings of my mind, and certainly any human could elicit some sort of similarity in my opinion of this disc. Read more »
BOBCATRACKS 2
April 1st, 2010 • BOBCATRACKS
Tags: baths, beck, charlotte gainsbourg, fang island, jonsi
Here are our editor’s top songs for April 1, 2010:
Doug Ray (Editor in Chief): Jonsi – Go Do (Go)
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Bradley McGraw (Deputy Editor in Chief): Baths – Mecha Joy (Baths)
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Peter Senzamici (Photography Editor): Fang Island – Daisy (Fang Island)
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Liana Blum (Art Editor): Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait (IRM)
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Jonsi announces film to complement upcoming release
February 26th, 2010 • Commentary, Iceland, Video
Tags: Dean Deblois, Go, Go Quiet, Heima, jonsi, Noah and the Whale, Reykjavik
It would seem that a number of my favorite musicians are now following the trend of producing films to accompany their album releases. Recently, English anti-folk musicians Noah and the Whale released album and film The First Days of Spring, and now Icelandic post-rocker extraordinaire, Jonsi, has announced a film to complement his forthcoming release Go, due in stores early April.
The film, titled Go Quiet, is billed on his website by director Dean Deblois (Director of the Acclaimed Sigur Ros documentary, Heima) thusly: “The concept behind ‘go quiet’ was simple: it’s New Year’s Day in Reykjavík, and Jónsi awakens to a trashed house in the wake of his party. he avoids cleaning up and instead procrastinates by playing songs that reflect the night before, the bittersweetness of new year, and the melancholy of a year gone by”
This full length DVD will be released alongside the album as a part of various special edition packages.
Check out the trailer, it is pretty epic:
Music Video Log 2/10/10
February 10th, 2010 • Commentary, Video
Tags: beach house, jonsi, MTV, Music Television, Music Video, The Very Best, Toro Y Moi
This week was a huge step back for those of us who grew up with Music Television (MTV). The cable channel originally set up to feature predominantly music based programming, specifically music videos officially dropped the subtext of “Music Television” from their now-famous logo.
Granted, I personally only had a few years of ‘real’ MTV before the network was, in my opinion corrupted by the influences of reality TV, notably The Real World and Road Rules, which ultimately are, at this point, among the most influential shows of our time, leaving us a legacy of ratings hits ranging from Survivor to The Mole and even the insufferable Jersey Shore that is apparently the new craze on MTV itself.
Fortunately for the next generation of music fans, which I might as well be a part of as well, online video sites, such as YouTube and Vimeo are constantly being flooded with music videos from artists of all levels of fame and genres. These videos are available for free and whenever I want them, so, I am willing to see music television go the way of the Dodo, just as long as the record labels do not stop producing this subgenre of film of which I have much affinity.
There are always new and different videos being released on the Internet, here is a sampling of a few of my most recent favorites.
Jonsi – Go Do
The Icelandic singer (of Sigur Ros) is putting out a solo album (Go), this is the video from the first single, Go Do
The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
The interplay between Esau Mwamwaya and Ezra Koenig (of Vampire Weekend) in this video is hysterical.
Toro y Moi – Blessa
For the video for the first single from his new album, Causers of This, Toro y Moi (Chaz Bundick), buzz artist of the moment, creates a dream-like, lap dissolve heavy recreation of a good old fashioned house party. Pay attention to what he is drinking from.
Beach House – Silver Soul
The Baltimore duo presents a rather fantastic hula hoop user in sepia with an intricate use of speed augmentation and fantastic cinematography, very befitting of the song
Preview: Go by Jonsi (with Audio)
February 7th, 2010 • 1 comment Album Review, Iceland
Tags: Go, Go Do, jonsi
Lead singer of the band Sigur Ros, Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson, has dipped his toes into the world of solo work before under the pseudonym “Frakkur,” but none of that early work comes close in quality or sound to his most recent venture, his forthcoming album Go, which is slated for a global release on April 5th. So far, two tracks have been released officially by the artist “Boy Lilikoi” was given away as a free download to fans on December 4th, and, just this week, the second track, “Go Do” (The opening track on the album) was released on YouTube by his label.
In support of the album, Jonsi will tour North America, including two stops in Boston’s House of Blues on May 5 and 6. Tickets are going to be $30 and go on sale on Tuesday 2/9/10. Read more »
Upcoming Album Release Dates of Note
January 1st, 2010 • News, Release Calendar
Tags: album release, beach house, calendar, dr. dre, eels, erykah badu, field music, final fantasy, groove armada, hot chip, jonsi, Lil Wayne, lupe fiasco, ok go, seabear, Spoon, the whigs, the white stripes, three 6 mafia, vampire weekend, wyclef jean, xiu xiu, Yeasayer
It takes a few weeks following the holiday season for album releases to really pick up, but by the time we have all reconvened in Lewiston, Maine and throughout the up coming weeks and months there are a few releases to look out for. Here is a list of some that I am particularly excited about.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) — Heartland
OK Go — Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky
Vampire Weekend — Contra
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Eels — End Times
Spoon — Transference
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Beach House — Teen Dream
Los Campesinos! — Romance is Boring
Three 6 Mafia — Laws of Power Read more »