Riceboy Sleeps - Jonsi & Alex
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| Available | 24-07-2009 |
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The band formerly known as Riceboy Sleeps and featuring John Thor from Sigur Ros
Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur Rós, Jon Thor (Jónsi) Birgisson has - together with his partner Alex Somers - been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now. The early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced with the track ‘Happiness’, on the exemplary ‘Dark Was The Night’ Red Hot compilation.
Now, however, the full-length ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ album (the name having migrated from artist moniker to album title) is finished and ready to subtly redefine expectations of slow and elegiac instrumental music in 2009.
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ is human in a profound and verging-on spiritual way. It says nothing, literally, and yet living through its 68-minutes you emerge feeling much has been revealed. Its slowly evolving abstract landscapes are both edifying and life-affirming. Sometimes it feels like a record coming back at you across the seas of time, with ancient Washington Phillips-style tumbling musical figures and stumbling crescendos as slow as a sunrise, or a weightless mantra-like choir singing from somewhere in the Middle Ages down the centuries.
Known primarily for his haunting falsetto and other-worldly presence as the singer in Sigur Rós, Jon Thor (Jónsi) Birgisson has - together with his partner Alex Somers - been exhibiting artwork and staging exhibitions under the name Riceboy Sleeps for two or three years now. The early fruits of the musical side of this collaboration surfaced with the track ‘Happiness’, on the exemplary ‘Dark Was The Night’ Red Hot compilation.
Now, however, the full-length ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ album (the name having migrated from artist moniker to album title) is finished and ready to subtly redefine expectations of slow and elegiac instrumental music in 2009.
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ is human in a profound and verging-on spiritual way. It says nothing, literally, and yet living through its 68-minutes you emerge feeling much has been revealed. Its slowly evolving abstract landscapes are both edifying and life-affirming. Sometimes it feels like a record coming back at you across the seas of time, with ancient Washington Phillips-style tumbling musical figures and stumbling crescendos as slow as a sunrise, or a weightless mantra-like choir singing from somewhere in the Middle Ages down the centuries.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Happiness
- Atlas Song
- Indian Summer
- StokkSeyri
- Boy 1904
- All The Big Trees
- Daniell In The Sea
- Howl
- Sleeping Giant
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