SIGUR RÓS - RECORD STORE DAY 2019
on april 13th record store day will be celebrated around the world - for this year’s event SIGUR RÓS will release two exclusive vinyl albums. 22° LUNAR HALO and VARIATIONS ON DARKNESS are soundtracks to separate modern dance collaborations, each building on sigur rós music, both new and existing, to create brand new works.
22° LUNAR HALO
soundtrack to brand new dance work by leading taiwanese choreographer CHENG tsung-lung, premiering in taiwan to coincide. tsung-lung chose his favourite music from throughout SIGUR RÓS’s career, which was then twisted, bent and broken, and finally added to in the band’s reykjavík studio to create a new perspective for CLOUD GATE 2. musical director KJARTAN HOLM.
vinyl exclusive to record store day. limited edition on black heavyweight 12″ vinyl. spined sleeve printed with special inks. released april 13th.
VARIATIONS ON DARKNESS
soundtrack to a series of choreographed performances from the ICELAND DANCE COMPANY, originally commissioned for the band’s NORÐUR OG NIÐUR festival New Year 2018. IDC musical “vacillation and transfiguration” expert VALDIMAR JÓHANSSON was granted unique access to unreleased SIGUR RÓS material, as well as multitracks of the band’s catalogue, using them to create a score of high nordic drama to underpin the apocalyptic vision of choreographer ERNA ÓMARSDÓTTIR. edited for vinyl by KJARTAN HOLM.
vinyl exclusive to record store day. limited edition on black heavyweight 12″ vinyl. spined sleeve printed with special inks. released april 13th.
22° LUNAR HALO photographer: LEE Chia-yeh // Variations On Darkness photographer: Anna Kristín Arnardóttir
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towards the end of 2018 we released the third hour of sigur rós’s endless ambient mixtape LIMINAL, launched alongside tónandi, the band’s collaboration with spatial computing sorcerers magic leap
putting out KLUKK – SIGUR RÓS IN BELLS was just one of the fun things we did on krunk in december.
JÓNSI NOMINATION
jónsi also picked up a golden globe nomination for REVELATION, his song with Troye Sivan from the film ‘BOY ERASED’, which has also got a nod for the ‘best song in a movie’ in the oscars long list. [Watch]
2019 is building up to be a very busy year at krunk, with a full range of releases from across the sigur rós family. watch this space…
