Disc 1

Excellent audience recording, that it is said to come from a DAT transfer. It sounds strong and clear, and moreover, crowd interference is minimal when the band are playing. Only issue to note is that track-1 on CD-1 starts pretty saturated until 4:10 into the song, more or less, as levels are fixed by the taper. The show features the singer Steindór Andersen on vocals for tracks 5 and 6 of 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 'Iðunn'. 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 Sigurður Sigurðarson 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:

kem ég enn af köldum heiðum (with Sigur Rós) [6:18 mins]

til ei ltur tíðin mér (solo) [1:00 mins]
fjöll í austri fagurblá (with Sigur Rós) [6:00 mins]

slær á hafið himinblæ (solo) [1:28 mins]
hugann seiða svalli frá (with Sigur Rós) [6:02 mins]

lækurinn (duet with Sigurður Sigurðarson) [5:49 mins]