Jonsi - Go

Featuring nine songs drawn from the large pool of material amassed by Jónsi during his many years as singer with Sigur Rós, and arranged in collaboration with classical wunderkind Nico Muhly ("one of the hottest composers on the planet" - Daily Telegraph).

The video for ‘Go Do’ has just been finished. Directed by Arni & Kinski (previously responsible for no fewer than six Sigur Rós videos), the video was filmed on location in Iceland between Christmas and New Year, which is quite an achievement when you realise there are about four hours of daylight at that time of year. It looks gorgeous, and is available to view now on You Tube.

Jónsi is also going out on a world tour to promote ‘Go’. No simple one-man show with just an acoustic guitar, this will be a bells-and-whistles extravaganza! The shows which start in North America in April will feature a brand new band and a stage set designed by 59 Productions (www.fiftynineproductions.co.uk) and is going to be drop-dead amazing.

The idea of the stage collaboration with 59 Productions is to bring together the worlds of theatre and music in a new and hopefully unique way, in order to create something other than the hoary old clichés that pass for innovation in rock'n'roll. The ideas remain very much "in development", but there will be some surprises, for sure.

For those of you eager for their next fix of new Jónsi music, you can check how three of the songs must have sounded before Nico got his hands on them and, in Jónsi's words, made them "explode", by going to http://soundcloud.com/jonsi/jonsi-on-wnyc-soundcheck and listening to the man and his acoustic guitar navigate their way through his first ever live radio session last week on WNYC, New York.
And finally, there’s been a lot of stories about Sigur Rós scrapping an album and going on “indefinite hiatus” recently. There’s nothing to worry about - they’re all very happily having babies and preparing new Sigur Rós projects to come. But in the meantime Jónsi is stepping firmly into the limelight and ‘Go’ – the album and tour – is his baby. It’s going to be a thing of wonder!!

Tracklisting:

1. Go Do
2. Animal Arithmetic
3. Tornado
4. Boy Lilikoi
5. Sinking Friendships
6. Kolnidur
7. Around Us
8. Grow Till Tall
9. Hengilas

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