The Monkey Blog by WRBC » Reykjavik http://wrbcradio.com/blog The Journalism Wing of Radio Bates College in Lewiston, Maine Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:58:09 +0000 en hourly 1 Jonsi announces film to complement upcoming release http://wrbcradio.com/blog/2010/02/jonsi-film/ http://wrbcradio.com/blog/2010/02/jonsi-film/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:33:38 +0000 Doug Ray http://wrbcradio.com/blog/?p=510 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:

-Doug Ray

Doug Ray is the co-host of Saltimbocca and Escargot, Sundays 8-10 PM on WRBC.

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Among the best performances of the festival were Yelle (FR), FM Belfast (IS), Seabear (IS), Boys in a Band (FO), GusGus (IS), Fuck Buttons (UK) and Cocktail Vomit (IS).

Here is a photographic sampling of some of the concerts and mischief that took place in Reykjavik:

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-Doug Ray & Nelson Harris

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