awake & listening: sigur rosOne week ago today I experienced a Sigur Ros concert (along with a few of these contributing bloggers and other friends). It was my third experience witnessing a live Sigur Ros show. Each occasion has been unique, moving, and worthwhile, and this time it was cool to share the experience with so many other people I know - some quite new to this great band.
Sigur Ros music fits on this blog, but the music and the live experience transcend this blog. It is quite difficult to describe, translate, remark on, or explain much about Sigur Ros.
You can read thoughts on the show from the Rheas or Bloguss, and I blogged (very short) on my 2nd time seeing them here.
One of my favorite accounts of their music was on NPR's All Things Considered on November 20, 2002. It's obviously an old review - of their album ( ) , but I completely & wholeheartedly agree with the reviewer's sense of the music. It pertains to all of Sigur Ros' work.
He concludes,
"it's a little unfair that we have to make sense of these things - to deconstruct them and perhaps take away some of the wonder that the music conjures.
I mean, Sigur Ros really do make beautiful music, and I'd sometimes prefer to simply stick to the pastoral metaphors, because the truth is there are times on this album, jibberish or not, that cannot be described in any other way except to say - it sounds ... like a sunrise..."
it surely does.
-s.o
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