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Go (Experience Edition) [CD+DVD]

Jonsi Audio CD
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“I started out trying to make a low-key, acoustic album, but somewhere along the line it just sort of exploded,” says Jón Thor Birgisson by way of explaining the unexpected trajectory of this, his first solo album, after more than a decade of fronting Iceland’s Sigur Rós.

“I have written many, many songs over the years that didn’t fit the band, and I put them away in different folders – electronic,… Read more in Amazon's Jonsi Store

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  • Audio CD (5 April 2010)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD+DVD
  • Label: Parlophone
  • ASIN: B0039OR6J2
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 65,455 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Go Do
2. Animal Arithmetic
3. Tornado
4. Boy Lilikoi
5. Sinking Friendships
6. Kolniður
7. Around Us
8. Grow Till Tall
9. Hengilás
Disc: 2
1. Go Do (Jónsi and Nico Live At The Working Men's Club)
2. Boy Lilikoi (Jónsi and Nico Live At The Working Men's Club)
3. Kolniður (Jónsi and Nico Live At The Working Men's Club)
4. Stars In Still Water (Jónsi and Nico Live At The Working Men's Club)
5. Go Do

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Officially speaking, Go marks the debut solo album by Jón Þór Birgisson, vocalist and guitarist of Iceland’s Sigur Rós, although fans will know it is not the first time he has harboured creative ambitions outside of his mother band--see 2009's Riceboy Sleeps, which saw Birgisson paired up with boyfriend Alex Somers, making serene ambient soundscapes with a choir and string quartet.

Go, however, relents on the wintry experimentalism for a suite of songs rather more hooky and straightforward than anything on Riceboy Sleeps--or, indeed, most anything in the Sigur Rós canon. Recorded with composer Nico Muhly and sung largely in English, the pace is set by songs like "Go Do" and "Boy Lilikoi", billowing and ornate creations that pull twinkling piano, dancing flutes and snowstorms of electronics around Birgisson's unearthly falsetto. The album finds its ballast in a couple of slightly more heavyweight songs, "Kolniður" and "Hengilás", which take a slightly moodier route, heavy with strings. The result is an album that Sigur Rós fans will love, but new listeners may warm too as well. And if the long-term future of Sigur Rós is still in question, Go feels exactly the right sort of record to launch a fruitful solo career. –-Louis Pattison

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Go is the exhilarating, joyful and fearless solo album from Jón Thor Birgisson, known to the world as Jónsi, the lead singer of Sigur Rós.

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), Go also features sleeve art conceptualised and realised by Jónsi's sisters Inga and Lilja.

The Jonsi CD, DVD and Online Experience Edition features access to streamed live footage plus a whole host of other items. The DVD features four tracks performed by Jonsi and Nico Muly including an unreleased track, plus the video for "Go Do".


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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. M. A. Reed TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
You can take the girl out of Bananarama, but you can't take the Bananarama out of the girl.

Set free from Sigur Ros, though `free' isn't the right word, Jonsi's debut solo album is a triumph. Neither alien, nor familiar, neither new nor old, it is as good - if not better - than any of his band's work. To talk in terms of songs, titles, and lyrics is to talk in riddles. The album is a slow, forty minute burn, a flickering white flame, an unhurried, glacial exploration. The words are impressionistic - sounding like language or phonetics, impressions, glimmers. The most obvious word is the portmanteau of Flutterbyes.

In some ways "Go" is most defiantly a solo record, a singular vision that shows just how much and how little of Jonsi is in Sigur Ros : but the gap is the same of that that is between great solo artists of the past, Morrissey, Lou Reed, whereby it is known and visible that whatever they do, is the essence of them. Jonsi's fellow musicians support, not dictate, but it sounds a remarkably egoless work, where the music is the aim, the songs, melodies, motifs, themes grow and expand, shrink and contract, breathe and blossom, with no constraint for a chorus, a verse, a middle-eight, break. The drums pound, then cease, the elegant guitar themes and strings soar, and in the midst of this, the fog of sound, the listener makes their own world, their own universe, and loses themselves - or finds themselves - in this tabla rosa of masterfully produced sound. Or perhaps, if you prefer, this record allows the listener to travel in time and space to a land of their own imagination.

What I would recommend is the `Experience Edition', which contains a superlative DVD : four stripped down, acoustic songs relayed in a basic guitar/piano/vocals form, which offer strong, valid, alternative interpretations of the albums obvious major contenders alongside a non-album song "Stars in Still Water". These versions offer equally powerful, and effective, imaginings of the core songs in a simpler telling. Which, to be frank, are as worthy as the better-known album recordings. Jonsi is master of his own destiny, and this music is as good a record as any his parent band have produced. Recommended.
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Jonsi is one of the best composers of the time and he demonstrates with this beautiful album, probably one of the best in 2010. And... the DVD is wonderful!
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Having reviewed the CD before, I'll just comment on the DVD. On this Jonsi returns to his original intention of using acoustic guitar and is inventively and very competently accompanied by Nico Muhly on piano - who occasionally gives Jonsi the odd admiring glance. Jonsi is dressed Innuit style and both wear face paint and feathers. The whole effect mesmerises the two peacocks standing in the background. Every time Jonsi sings "I met you" they are shown facing each other, head to head. The songs are performed in front of a glittering red heart on the stage at a working men's club. "I met you" comes in the last track "Stars in still waters", which is not featured on the CD. It is a beautiful, sad and melancholy song so typical of Jonsi Birgisson, with an incredibly long, high note held on the "you". Any Sigur Ros fan has to add this to their collection.
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