sigur rós - heima

sigur rós - heima
There are two types of people when it comes to the Icelandic musical group SIgur Ros. Those who get violently ill while listening and those who falls to there knees in awe of the band's brilliance. I'll let you guess which camp I fall into. I can vividly recall the precise moment I had heard their first "single" and it's affect on me.

Years ago Robert ,Gaylene and I drove to Minneapolis to seem them on tour in support of the there first album. It wa an amazing concert, they band displayed a unique maturity, you knew they'd be around for while. Back then we joked we should try and convince them come up to Gimli. I was convinced that the image of them playing on the shores of Lake Winnipeg would have been a powerful one. This film confirms we had the right idea. With lots of views of Iceland in this film you can understand where the music has come from. The band literally plays in some fields, old fish plants, around the old churchs.

Here the blurb from the website.

'heima' is sigur rós's first ever film, filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in iceland. they hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to the furthest flung corners of their homeland for their debut venture into live film, to create something, well, inspirational.

on their way they went to ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small community halls and the absolute middle-of-nowhere-ness of the highland wilderness, as well as playing the largest gig of their career (and in icelandic history) at their homecoming reykjavik show.

loosely based on a documentary format - and including personal reflections from the band - 'heima' also serves as an alternative primer for iceland the country, which is revealed as less stag destination-du-jour and more desolate, magical place where human beings have little right to trespass.

'heima' features performances of songs from all four sigur rós albums, many radically reworked, as well as two exclusive new songs in 'guitardjamm', which was filmed inside an abandoned herring oil tank in the far west of the country, and the traditional 'a ferd til breidarfjardar 1922', performed with poet steindor andersen.

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