Sigur R?s - Hvarf/Heim
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Artist: Sigur R?sEdition: Music CD
Audio: French (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Salka
- Hlj?malind
- ? G?r
- Von
- Hafs?l
- Samskeyti [Live]
- Star?lfur [Live]
- Vaka [Live]
- ?g?tis Byrjun [Live]
- Heys?tan [Live]
- Von [Live]
Music reviews of Hvarf/Heim
Music Review: Really Different and Beautiful
Rating: 5 Stars
Sigur Rose has a unique quality that is enchanting to me. Their music is like a tone poem in 4 dimensions and I want to go to Iceland every time I hear them. This is my favorite album of theirs so far.
Description of Hvarf/Heim
November 5 sees Sigur R?s release a 2 CD set featuring all-new recordings titled "Hvarf - Heim". The album has two titles because it is in effect two separate, but complementary, entities with two front covers and is issued as a limited edition run of two discs. Open it one way and it's "Hvarf" ("disappeared" or "haven") a five track electric studio record comprising mainly unreleased rarities from Sigur R?s's back-pages, none of which features on "Heima" (the double DVD release issued on the same day). It features three previously unreleased songs (Salka, Hlj?malind and ? G?r) alongside radical re-workings of two tracks from their debut album "Von". Open it the other way and it's "Heim" ("home"), a six track live acoustic record, comprising delicate new unplugged versions of some of Sigur R?s's finest moments, which have never been performed in this way before. The band were originally planning to release a more traditional live album to go with the "Heima" tour film, but instead decided upon "Hvarf-Heim" - infinitely more stimulating and exciting than some "will-this-do?" toss-offs of songs they honed to perfection in the studio aeons ago. Hlj?malind / Star?lfur is released as a limited edition double A-side 7" vinyl single on October 22 as a taster for the album release, but also to celebrate the UK Premiere of the "Heima" film which is on October 24 as part of the BBC's Electric Proms.In Icelandic, the word "hvarf" means "disappeared," and the first five tracks of Sigur R?s's double CD set nearly did disappear, having remained unreleased until this collection. Fans will love new opportunities to enjoy the band's precious style--precious save for "I Gaer," which starts out like a music-box and builds to dramatic, Pink Floyd-esque guitar-rawk proportions. The inclusion of two specific tracks, "Von" (meaning "hope") and "Hafsol," will especially delight longtime SR fans; written and recorded during the group's infancy in 1995, these tracks became treasured live performances, having never been captured on disc as their expanded, evolved versions until now. The disc's second portion, "Heim" ("home") is a six-song acoustic set that shows Sigur R?s in a less grandiose, more delicate light. The original versions of each were spread throughout SR's four previous releases, and all six were captured live-to-disc when the band performed a unique tour comprising surprise concerts in settings ranging from deserted fish factories to darkened caves. (The tour has been released separately as an endearing DVD, a companion to this collection entitled Heima.) While totally acoustic, the songs remain full-bodied, lush and lovely, especially the former underground hit "?g?tis byrjun" and "Heys?tan," within which you'll hear--if you listen closely--the sounds of chirping birds singing along with the orchestral instruments. --Denise Sheppard
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