Sigur Rós - Hollywood 01-05-2001

 

John Anson Ford Theatre

Hollywood (California), USA.

01 - May - 2001.

 

 

Disc 1 (74:13)

 

01. Nýja Lagiđ

02. Ný Batterí

03. Syndir Guđs

04. Svefn-G-Englar

05. Kem ég enn af Köldum Heiđum / Fjöll í Austri Fagurblá

06. Fyrsta

07. Samskeyti

08. Dauđalagiđ

 

 

Disc 2 (41:25)

 

01. Von

02. Olsen Olsen

03. Hafssól

04. Popplagiđ

 

 

Recording Equipment - History

Core Sound Binaurals + Sony PCM-M1 > DAT Master > Tascam CDRW402 > xAct > FLAC

 

Taper: Tranehead

Location: third row center

 

Comments

Very nice recording straight off the master DAT. It sounds pretty clear overall with all instruments and vocals well audible and minimal crowd interference. The show features the singer Steindór Andersen on vocals for two songs, indexed together on track-5 disc-1.

 

To know more about those two songs and about Steindór Andersen, let's quote the fantastic website http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk :

In early 2001, Sigur Rós set out to record some songs in their newly-completed Álafoss swimming pool studio with their friend Steindór Andersen. Steindór Andersen is a fisherman and chairman of the Icelandic poetry society, called 'Iđunn'. Steindór is a chanter/singer of the traditional Icelandic epic poetry form called Rímur. Rímur are narrative poems which generally tell stories of Icelandic heroes and epic battles which have been passed down generations in Iceland through word-of-mouth since the 14th century. Rímur were regarded as a performance art; a good Rímur chanter would engage his listeners with his clever rhyming schemes and catchy melodies. Rímur were performed on winter nights when inhabitants sat occupied by their work (making clothing from wool, wreathing horsehairs into ropes, cutting tools from wood, etc.) for seven centuries, this was Icelanders' only branch of entertainment and it's only recently that this tradition has dissolved.

The Steindór Andersen EP contains six songs, three of which Sigur Rós accompany him on. Two songs feature Steindór alone and the last song on the CD is Steindór and his friend Sigurđur Sigurđarson singing the poem lžkurinn (the stream), recorded under the bridge of the stream by Sigur Rós's studio. 1000 copies of the CD were printed and sold in the spring tour of 2001, where Steindór joined the band to perform the songs from the EP. Tracklist:

  1. kem ég enn af köldum heiđum  (with Sigur Rós) [6:18 mins]
  2. til ei ltur tíđin mér  (solo) [1:00 mins]
  3. fjöll í austri fagurblá  (with Sigur Rós) [6:00 mins]
  4. slćr á hafiđ himinblć  (solo) [1:28 mins]
  5. hugann seiđa svalli frá  (with Sigur Rós) [6:02 mins]
  6. lćkurinn  (duet with Sigurđur Sigurđarson) [5:49 mins]