kveikur

[Fljotavik]

Director: Andrew Thomas Huang
Producer: Tom Berendsen & Sarah Lawson
Production Company: LEGS

Cinematographer: Laura Merians
Choreographer: Ryan Heffington
Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler
Art Director: Orion Martin
Costume Designer: Dan Selon
Hair and Makeup Artist: Frida Maria Hardardottir and Jennifer Cunningham
AD: George Nessis

Dancers: Will Johnston, Demian Boergadine, James-darrell Odom, and Sarah Amos

VFX created with help from The Mill LA

Fonte: http://www.andrewthomashuang.com/MOV_SigurRos_Brennisteinn.htm

[MAX_AM]

Ho cercato con il traduttore online di capire i titoli.
Sembra quasi un concept geologico
brennisteinn (zolfo)
hrafntinna (ossidiana)
isjaki (iceberg)
yfirbord (a tutti i livelli?) [superficie]
stormur (tempesta)
kveikur (accensore?) [stoppino]
rafstraumur (elettrico) [corrente elettrica]
Bláþráður (non ho trovato nulla) [filo fino (inteso come la mia vita appesa un filo) ... poi si scoprirà che voleva dire filo blu e buonanotte al secchio ]
var (era?) [miccia]

Ho aggiunto la mia traduzione che deriva dalla mia indubbia conoscenza del dialetto veronese che si sposa assai bene con l'icelandic Un consiglio, anche se non richiesto: spesso è più facile tradurre l'icelandic con l'inglese ....e poi passare dall'inglese all'italiano. Esattamente al contrario di quello che si fa con i gusti musicali

[Fljotavik]

Ho cercato con il traduttore online di capire i titoli.
Sembra quasi un concept geologico
brennisteinn (zolfo)
hrafntinna (ossidiana)
isjaki (iceberg)
yfirbord (a tutti i livelli?) [superficie]
stormur (tempesta)
kveikur (accensore?) [stoppino]
rafstraumur (elettrico) [corrente elettrica]
Bláþráður (non ho trovato nulla) [filo fino (inteso come la mia vita appesa un filo) ... poi si scoprirà che voleva dire filo blu e buonanotte al secchio ]
var (era?) [miccia]

Ho aggiunto la mia traduzione che deriva dalla mia indubbia conoscenza del dialetto veronese che si sposa assai bene con l'icelandic Un consiglio, anche se non richiesto: spesso è più facile tradurre l'icelandic con l'inglese ....e poi passare dall'inglese all'italiano. Esattamente al contrario di quello che si fa con i gusti musicali

Funziona anche con il dialetto veneziano? Grazie toso!

[Sigur-man]

Non capisco cosa c'è in comune col dialetto veronese... mi sembra totalmente un'altra cosa
Comunque... bello! Mi piace la traduzione. Sento che sarà un bell'album...

[Mod XXII]

Un consiglio, anche se non richiesto: spesso è più facile tradurre l'icelandic con l'inglese ....e poi passare dall'inglese all'italiano.

E' quello che ho fatto, ma molto molto velocemente e online. Senza usare un vero vocabolario (infatti ne ho toppate metà ahah).

Quindi l'idea del concept (nelle intenzioni, almeno) è sempre più probabile. Dai titoli direi quasi sicuro.

[Fljotavik]

Io direi di sì, anche se il video di Huang che ha diretto anche mutual core della nana mi ha condizionato parecchio

[Mod XXII]

“We realized one day when we were working on this album that we hadn’t put piano on any of the songs. It was kind of funny to realize that. Obviously, there would’ve been a lot of pianos if Kjartan were there.”



Comunque... mi pare - non che centri con quanto sopra eh! - che le setlist oramai siano sempre tutte uguali.
Ecco, questo non mi piace per niente (non che io sia un fan dei bootleg, me ne basta uno o due per tour).

[indigo]

“We realized one day when we were working on this album that we hadn’t put piano on any of the songs. It was kind of funny to realize that. Obviously, there would’ve been a lot of pianos if Kjartan were there.”

Per curiosità, dov'è che hanno rilasciato questa dichiarazione?
Comunque mi viene da pensare che tutto sommato è meglio così. Amavo la traccia del pianoforte, ma qualunque 'rimpiazzo' di Kjartan sarebbe risultato inadeguato. Quindi, meglio la svolta a questo punto!

[indigo]

[i]
Comunque... mi pare - non che centri con quanto sopra eh! - che le setlist oramai siano sempre tutte uguali.
Ecco, questo non mi piace per niente (non che io sia un fan dei bootleg, me ne basta uno o due per tour).

E' sicuramente una scelta 'comoda' per loro... ma neanche a me la cosa piace.
Se proprio anche per il prossimo tour la setlist dovesse essere unica, spero almeno che sia ben strutturata!
Sinceramente almeno un paio tra Viđrar vel til Loftárása, Ný Batterí e Popplagiđ, ci terrei a vederle dal vivo!

[belubelu]

Sigur Rós
Losing a member leads to a new appreciation of the fast and heavy
By KEVIN RITCHIE

“Fast” and “heavy” are words not typically used to describe the music of Sigur Rós, an Icelandic band known for gorgeous, glacially paced post-rock epics. But the past year has been one of energizing change.
Last summer, keyboardist Kjartan Sveinsson opted not to tour in support of their Valtari album and then quit to pursue a career in classical music. Undeterred, singer/guitarist Jónsi Birgisson, bassist Georg Hólm and drummer Orri Páll Dýrason regrouped and started jamming in their Reykjavik rehearsal space.
The impact of Sveinsson’s departure was apparent, as the band soon found out.
“The dynamics changed a little bit – and not in a bad way,” Hólm says over the phone from Iceland. “We realized one day when we were working on this album that we hadn’t put piano on any of the songs. It was kind of funny to realize that. Obviously, there would’ve been a lot of pianos if Kjartan were there.”
While Valtari’s choral work and meandering piano recalled the ethereal prettiness of their 1999 international breakthrough, Agætis Byrjun, Hólm describes their upcoming seventh LP, Kveikur (due out June 18), as an aggressive, unpretty reimagining of their signature sweeping, cinematic sound.
It was also made uncharacteristically quickly. Kveikur will materialize a mere 13 months after Valtari, which took four years.
“‘Outside your comfort zone’ is a phrase I like to associate with [this album],” says Hólm. “We’d start playing a song and say, ‘Whoa, that’s very different! Is that good or not?’ And we just kept on going to see where it went. We surprised ourselves.”
Take lead single Brennisteinn, a relentlessly hulking number with a grotesque, farting bass that lives up to the title (“sulphur” in Icelandic) and demonstrates Sigur Rós’s newfound emphasis on rhythm.
The juiced-up sound is auspiciously timed: they’re in the midst of their first North American arena tour, which kicked off at Madison Square Garden. The show opens with Sigur Rós and their 11-piece band surrounded by translucent gauze. Hólm refuses to elaborate except to say that, like their sound, the tripped-out visuals mix the familiar with the surprising.
“Although a lot of the songs are quite aggressive, it’s not because we are aggressive,” he says. “We’re feeling energetic, and we really like what we’re doing. Sometimes you can hear that a band doesn’t like what they’re doing as much as they should. But we’re definitely enjoying this at the moment.

[Burriccu]

A me me pare che sto tentativo de sti sigur ros de andà avanti assomiglia a quello de Bersani quando si ostina a chiedere la fiducia al M5S.

Ti lovvo, ti ho lovvato e ti lovverò pessempre.

ottuT, ma che minchia è tutta 'sta gente nuova? che cazzo ci fanno? ce li hai portati te? so' amichi tuoi? con tutta 'sta folla me sta a pija un attacco de chiusofobia. Ma che è, se semo trasformati en un sito de sesso onlain???

[indigo]

ottuT, ma che minchia è tutta 'sta gente nuova? che cazzo ci fanno? ce li hai portati te? so' amichi tuoi? con tutta 'sta folla me sta a pija un attacco de chiusofobia. Ma che è, se semo trasformati en un sito de sesso onlain???

...sì, anche per me è un piacere conoscerti.

[popplagio]

If serene albums like 2002’s ( ) and last year’s almost totally ambient Valtari were music for contemplating the silence of the fjords, Brennisteinn – the first sonic glimpse of Kveikur, due June 18 – is the sound of said fjords abruptly collapsing on top of you.

“There’s definitely a bit of a change,” bassist Georg (Goggi) Holm explained over the phone from his home in Iceland. “A lot of the stuff is rougher, it’s more gritty and more aggressive. But not necessarily all of it.”

Brennisteinn’s low rumble of a bass line, like a creaky drawbridge being raised, announces the change, as drummer Orri Pall Dyrason lays down an ominous half-time rhythm that sounds tailor-made for stadiums. Granted, singer Jon Þor (Jonsi) Birgisson’s ethereal falsetto still sounds angelic, but now it’s an angel warning that you’re about to descend into a most unholy place. Musically, it’s as though the band’s modus operandi has been inverted; instead of starting with a quiet sound and slowly moving toward a boisterous, sometimes ear-splitting peak, Brennisteinn starts out galloping like a modernized Carmina Burana before the drums fall away and reveal the quiet in the eye of the song’s opening hurricane.

I asked Holm, were they worried about fans’ reactions to their reinventing themselves so drastically?

“In many ways, we’ll never be able to get away from our sound. It’ll always be somehow identifiable as our sound. But I think even we were a bit surprised by the new material we created. It was just so different from whatever we had done. You can hear the sound is still there, but there’s just something new and fresh about it.

“We did surprise ourselves when we were writing it – like, ‘What are we doing?’ It was completely different, but in a good way.”

Holm is right, in that you really can hear the Sigur Ros magic even in the thundering cacophony. “We like sounds that are organic. I guess we’re suckers for that,” he says.

He explains that many of the sounds on Kveikur were created by sampling real sources and then playing them through digital controllers.

Sigur Ros’s fans are no doubt as sentimental as the band, so the departure of guitarist Kjartan Sveinsson – announced last fall as merely a hiatus from touring, then officially confirmed as a true split from the group during a Reddit Q&A in late January – has been met with much breast-beating and wailing. But Holm avers that the touring group, consisting of the trio plus Holm’s younger brother, Kjartan Dagur Holm, as well as a pianist known only as Obo, and eight other players on strings and brass, can reproduce the records as well, or better, than the four piece could. “The live show has never been as full and complete as it is at the moment. It’s better than ever.”

Sveinsson’s departure might prompt fears that the band will never perfectly recapture its classic sound, and that’s probably true. Yet the way Holm describes the band’s working process, which makes them almost sound like a hive mind, means they will likely survive the transition.

“We don’t listen to the same types of music, although we all sort of agree when we hear something that is good,” Holm says. (He also reveals that they tend to blast chart pop at high volume backstage before their shows – the will.i.am single with Britney Spears, Scream & Shout, is a current favourite.)

“When we write music together, if we at some point say, ‘I’m not sure about this one,’ we all agree. We all have the same sense of music, I think.

“We work very well together, and we kind of have to work together, in some ways. We all have to be in the room and writing the songs together. It can’t be, someone writes a song and comes into a rehearsal space, and says, ‘Let’s play it.’ It never works. I don’t think we’ve ever even tried it.”

[Mod XXII]

so the departure of guitarist Kjartan Sveinsson

[sigurlotus]

the touring group, consisting of the trio plus Holm’s younger brother, Kjartan Dagur Holm, as well as a pianist known only as Obo, and eight other players on strings and brass, can reproduce the records as well, or better, than the four piece could. “The live show has never been as full and complete as it is at the moment. It’s better than ever.

Permettimi di dissentire Georg.. suvvia, non scherziamo!