Riceboy Sleeps: more than a Sigur Ros project
The last two years have been involving for Sigur Rós fans. A full length, a movie/documentary, an EP, tours and other treats. Adding to the mystery of this band was a side project called Riceboy Sleeps. What first began as a 48 page picture book by Jón þór Birgisson (vocalist and guitarist for Sigur Rós) and his partner, Alex Somers. They followed this with art exhibits, videos… and then an instrumental on the tremendous Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation).
Riceboy Sleeps – Happiness (Dark Was The Night)
Happiness, the track that fits nicely with the compilation, “was neither finished nor mastered when the deadline came around.” Jónsi and Alex acted quickly to complete the track, along with eight others, and are poised to release Riceboy Sleeps on July 20th.
The official press release has this to say about the album:
“Played solely on acoustic instruments in Iceland (and featuring long-time string collaborators amiina, as well as the Kopavogsdaetur Choir) and then endlessly toyed with on solar-powered laptops in a raw food commune in some far corner of Hawaii, ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ has a suitably, uh, ‘organic feel’ to it; the wave-like lapping of its tidal flow buried beneath analogue hiss, crackle, pulse and distortion; the creaking of rigging and sometime indeterminate falling delicately over; and, on ‘howl’, ruminative animal chirrups, grunts, snorts and purrs.”
Riceboy Sleeps tracklisting:
happiness
atlas song
indian summer
stokkseyri
boy 1904
all the big trees (video)
daníell in the sea (video)
howl
sleeping giant