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The scene in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou where Sigur Rós's "Starálfur" bubbles up on the soundtrack is one of my favorite goosebump moments of the past decade of film, proof positive that the exact right match of song and visual can elevate even a mess of a movie like that one.So credit Irish writer/director Neil Jordan, the guy who made The Crying Game and Interview With the Vampire, with some truly savvy instincts. As Sigur Rós announced on their website last week, Jordan has enlisted the band's keyboardist, Kjartan Sveinsson, to write the score for his forthcoming film Ondine. A few songs from Sigur Rós will also appear on the soundtrack.In The Life Aquatic, Sigur Rós's particular brand of airy mystery worked beautifully in fantastical deep-sea scenes. From the looks of things, Jordan may have similar uses in mind for the band. IMDB describes Ondine's plot thusly: "The story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a mermaid." So magical-realist Splash, basically. Nice! Also, Colin Farrell plays a character named Syraceuse, and that guy killed it in In Bruges, so this movie could be really good.
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The multi-instrumentalist previously left the band to "do something different"The post Kjartan Sveinsson rejoins Sigur Rós after nearly a decade appeared first on NME.
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Nearly two decades ago, Sigur Rós helped put together an orchestral work called Odin's Raven Magic that premiered at the Reykjavík Arts Festival in 2002 and was only performed a few times after that. It was inspired by the epic Icelandic poem Hrafnagaldr Óðins and was a collaboration between the band and a group of…
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Sigur Rós: Speak Out Against Iceland For Second Tax Evasion Trial: “They’re Treating Us Like Criminals”
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Sigur Rós, Icelandic masters of majestic and otherworldly post-rock sprawl, have been dealing with some real-world problems in recent years. In early 2018 news broke that the Icelandic government was investigating the band for tax evasion. Although the band claimed it was a mistake by their former accountant Gunnar Ásgeirsson and they'd alread...
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Members of the experimental rock band Sigur Rós have been cleared of tax evasion charges in Iceland, according to Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið and confirmed by Pitchfork.
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Sigur Rós: Charged With Tax Evasion
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Members of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros have been charged with tax evasion, three years after local authorities launched a probe into the avant-garde rock band’s finances.
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