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Artist:
SEABEAR
Title:
Teenage Kicks
Label:
A NUMBER OF SMALL THINGS (GERMANY)
Format:
7"
Price:
$6.50
Catalog #:
ANOST 014EP
Iceland's
Seabear
do a cover version of the punk rock classic, "Teenage Kicks," originally performed by
The Undertones
in the late '70s. Seabear made it a song with soft, sentimental and mellow tones, including a summery viola, a sparkling piano and the warm voice of
Sindri
. "Piano Hands" is a B-side session from their full-length debut, a silent tune with an abundance of sound.
Artist:
SEABEAR
Title:
The Ghost That Carried Us Away
Label:
MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
MORR 076CD
This is the debut release by Iceland's
Seabear
.
The Ghost That Carried Us Away
flatters in a rather
unobtrusive way: fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by the 24-year-old
Sindri Már Sigfússon
. Guitars,
piano, his almost bashful and yet present voice -- themes of nature, mortality and love from Iceland's musical heartland,
Reykjavik. There's a violinist with her voice in the clouds,
Gudbjörg Hlin Gudmundsdóttir
(violin, vocals,
harmonica) and
Orn
(guitar, lapsteel). Other members include
Eiki
,
Orvar
,
Gudni
and
Dóri
: one plays the flugelhorn, the slide-guitar and upright-bass, one belongs to the live line-up of
Sigur
Rós
and another is part of the sensational
Múm
. Some are stage members of
Benni Hemm Hemm
's band -- the
other Icelandic artist on Morr music. Sigfusson invited them into his small studio, placed them in front of the only
microphone and let them think about his musical thoughts. He likes the notion and the feeling of lo-fi, and for the
recording of the drums, only three microphones were used. The result is reminiscent of the reduced stereo recordings of
the 1960s. "Libraries" is tiny and gigantic, unobtrusive and exciting at the same time -- a song like blinking into the
most beautiful sunrise. A tumbling piano, swinging drums and melancholy melodies. "Hands Remember" includes murmuring
vocals and two violins. In "Summer Bird Diamond," birds twitter to the sounds of an old banjo and glockenspiel. It is
almost like a chamber folk radio play. And "Seashell" at last, is a pocket symphony, arranged around jumping drums.
Artist:
SEABEAR
Title:
The Ghost That Carried Us Away
Label:
MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:
LP
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
MORR 076LP
LP version. This is the debut release by Iceland's
Seabear
.
The Ghost That Carried Us Away
flatters in a rather unobtrusive way: fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by the 24-year-old
Sindri Már Sigfússon
. Guitars, piano, his almost bashful and yet present voice -- themes of nature, mortality and love from Iceland's musical heartland, Reykjavik.
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