Composer Reacts to Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar (REACTION & ANALYSIS)

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Composer Reacts to Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar (REACTION & ANALYSIS)

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Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar
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@wtglb 3 жыл бұрын

Love Sigur Ros, one of the reasons I visited Iceland 3 times. Coincidentally met Jonsi coming out of a store in Reykjavik with his partner, Alex, what a thrill! He was so nice and down-to-Earth

@michaelgiaquinto3092 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to have that happen too me I love jonsi solo work as well we bought a zoo soundtrack is a favorite piece of music of mine!! I would love to talk with them

@wtglb 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgiaquinto3092 it was so unexpected! It was really nice, Alex offered to take pics of us, really sweet

@nmeau 2 жыл бұрын

You mean The store in Reykjavik :-)

@jonathanolson1185 3 жыл бұрын

Those long droning sounds are actually being played live by Jonsi the vocalist. And they are actually being played on his guitar with a cello bow. He uses the bow technique very frequently throughout their music.

@Lebowski55 3 жыл бұрын

My enjoyment of this type of music typically involves feeling it rather than analyzing it from the theoretical perspective

@knrst9061 2 жыл бұрын

Thats just like.. your opinion, dude..

@StringHead92 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first Sigur Rós song I ever heard. It was a live version and it was the first time I saw anyone bowing their electric guitar with a cello bow! And my first contact with post-rock, it really opened up a whole new world for me. As far as I know, Sigur Rós lyrics are pretty cryptic and vague, even for Icelandic people. This band, at least on this album, takes the more ambient side of Pink Floyd and turns it up to 11. Jónsi (the singer) has one of the most unique and angelic voices I've ever heard. This is one of the many sides of their music, though. You've heard the emotionally heavy (Untitled #8) and the quiet introspective (this track) sides of Sigur Rós, you've yet to listen to some of their celebratory stuff. They can go pretty uplifting and make good use of strings and brass when they want to. Great input as always, Bryan!

@kiddvicious78 2 жыл бұрын

This song is regarding birth - the unborn child is the Sleeping Angel, thus the sound of the baby crying and the quickening heartbeat. The blast of music towards the end was the birth, bursting forth to a cacophony of sound. To the singer (unborn child), it's a jarring loss of the peace that was felt and sung about earlier in the song. The end describes a "ruined brain" put to the breast, being fed by sleeping angels (humans are sleepwalking through life) - it's a lot happening.

@musicaddict5076 3 жыл бұрын

This is the first track that got me into Sigur Ros. Very nostalgic for me every time I hear it. They create the most haunting, uplifting, beautiful music out there.

@Zuringa 14 күн бұрын

First heard Svefn-g-englar on the TV series V. I immediately had to find out what it was and it has turned into one of my most listened to pieces of music. It is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.

@jonathanhenderson9422 3 жыл бұрын

I think I said on your last Sigur Ros reaction that this band is up there with Cocteau Twins and Alcest as the bands that I think make the most ethereal, rapturously beautiful music I know of. I haven't listened to them consistently in almost two decades, but I really should make it a point to revisit them sometime soon. They just make the kind of music that I could wrap myself in like a blanket and never want to leave.

@CriticalReactions 3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree with about the encompassing beauty and comfort that they songs provide. I think I've done Alcest before (maybe) but Cocteau Twins doesn't sound familiar.

@jonathanhenderson9422 3 жыл бұрын

@@CriticalReactions Here's what I wrote about Cocteau Twins on my 100 Favorite Artists list (I ranked them #27): "If heaven has a soundtrack I imagine it being something like Cocteau Twins. This band essentially invented dream pop and set the standard for all bands after; yet despite how many bands have attempted similarly dreamy, ethereal, rapturously beautiful aesthetics, none IMO have equaled what CT twins achieved. Much of that is attributable to Liz Fraser's angelic voice and original vocal writing, which is a mix of English, Scottish, and nonsense phrases crafted into unique melody lines. Underneath that is Robin Guthrie's echo, reverb, chorus, delay-drenched guitar that conjures stained-glass cathedrals of sound, full of flickering technicolor landscapes as vast as the cosmos. With the exception of their goth-tinged debut their discography is nearly flawless as well, including the wealth of EPs that are often as good as the full albums." For a first listen I'd recommend any of these songs: Heaven or Las Vegas, Lorelei, Carolyn's Fingers, or Pearly Dewdrops' Drops.

@melaniecolgin3705 3 жыл бұрын

This song and all their other music is played in person by the band, all of it is amazing live with very little sampling. If you hear strings, it's real strings, if you hear a xylophone it's a xylophone and so on, I've witnessed first how they roam from one instrument to another and include other musicians to accomplish the multi layered vastness of their sound. The " language " is Vonlenska, it's a made up vocal created by the lead singer Jonsi, it's meant to be interpretive.

@gummiaudun 3 жыл бұрын

Best band of all time! Nice video and great analysis. You deffo should dive into their discography. Their movie ‘Heima’ is amazing and if you wanna see them play a live show I recommend the one from The Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2017.

@wtglb 3 жыл бұрын

“Heima” is excellent

@PhoenixDecim 3 жыл бұрын

We got the remastered videos now!

@maxmaidment96 3 жыл бұрын

Building on your feelings about the song with my own, I feel this song captures the melancholy of the idea that just as you or I may read a book or comic and be invested in the characters and then put down the book never to read it again. Some god is reading us as a story, and we will eventually be laid down for the last time not to be read again.

@CriticalReactions 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, that's some heavy thought; that we're just short lived characters in a fiction enjoyed by higher beings.

@Thomas.Saunders Жыл бұрын

I'm a little surprised to find this. Sigur Ros has been my favorite band for 15 years and I find them to be a bit of an acquired taste, not many like them on first listen. Although some tracks are more approachable than others. I've seen them live 3 times, if I count Jonsi's solo tour. Many of their songs don't even have lyrics, they are just made up words and they call it Hopelandic. They are an amazing live band and just about blow the roof off of any venue. Looks like you have a few other Sigur Ros songs, I'll have to listen to them soon also.

@filmpopmovie 3 жыл бұрын

They are creating all their sounds with instruments made of wood and string. Stunning music. Great song. Next song, for a composer, should be the one that one that hooks you. And the following 5-6 albums.

@paznewis107 3 жыл бұрын

I got this on vinyl when it came out 😸 must go find it 🙏

@frankyeichler3303 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my love for this band is indescribable. I say that about a lot of bands, but none of them are even remotely close to Sigur

@ggluckmanful 3 жыл бұрын

There's something about cinematic music that I find innately limiting. Whether it's matched to specific imagery or just intended to inspire hypnogogy, I feel like there's something a bit sad about making music in the service of visuals. My experience of artistically mixed media, has occasionally been deeply rewarding ('The Long Count' by the Dessner brothers and Matthew Ritchie was great), but it never feels to me like the music hits the heights of what the pure medium can produce for me. Equally, I basically dismiss soundtracks and scores more often than not. That said, there's definitely something special about what Sigur Ros does, and this song is no exception.

@CriticalReactions 3 жыл бұрын

I think there is an excellent conversation to be had here but I don't know if I'm capable of being a strong part of it. The idea of mixed media vs pure media especially within the context of viewing/listening to one part of the mixed media art in isolation. Regardless, I agree that Sigur Ros does do something exceptional here. :)

@ggluckmanful 3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough.

@annatraustadottir4387 2 жыл бұрын

Cinematic music, Sigur Rós?

@jarunia17 3 жыл бұрын

This isn’t what I usually listen to (mostly metal) but I’ve been hearing good stuff about this band for a long time and yeah, they delivered. I think you described the feelings it invokes how I would have so I’ll just add that I loved the sound of the drum kit the most, the groove had me invested in the song the whole time.

@AIPTutorials 3 жыл бұрын

I went to one of their shows in 2012. The diversity of the crowd was astonishing. Metal heads, hip-hoppers, punks, hippies, and all ages from toddlers to octogenarians. I had never really seen that level for a band before.

@ninobrassinga97 3 жыл бұрын

We don't need a 'God' we have Sigur Rós, big fan since 2013/14 (i don't really know since lol) Sigur Rós forever Love from Holland 🤘🎹🎻🎸🎤🎸🥁🎼🎶♥🤘

@Galinn_Arts 3 жыл бұрын

I love Sigur Ros

@timgil7830 2 жыл бұрын

I think the distortion on this one is a cello bow on the guitar. I may be wrong but he does that regularly

@mejsjalv 3 жыл бұрын

And they say you gotta sing in English to get noticed. They have gone far with Icelandic based gibberish and what I can call a magical sound.

@misterguts 3 жыл бұрын

10:07 Here, Jonsi is tuning across the spiritual shortwave bands to find another soul being born. Very appropriate for this song whose title means "Sleeping Angels".

@109dod 2 жыл бұрын

If you include the G, it’s Sleepwalkers

@jeannettesimpson9778 3 жыл бұрын

I have the album this track is from. I picture a black and white video of a long car journey through an Icelandic moonscape. (I'm waiting for the day when you can plug into your brain and record the images unfolding. That'd be cool.)

@CriticalReactions 3 жыл бұрын

No kidding. As someone who is terrible at drawing my thoughts but think I have some interesting ones I'll be the first in line to test something like this -- especially while listening to music.