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02/04/2010 14:51:51

Jónsi News: Album, Tour And Video!

 

JónsiThe release date of Jónsi's debut solo album, 'Go', has recently been confirmed for the week of April 5th around the world. 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 the album now has a finished sleeve, conceptualised and realised by Jónsi's sisters Inga and Lilja.

Meanwhile, details of his first live concerts outside of Sigur Rós were announced this week. The shows which start in North America in April will feature a brand new band and a stage set designed by 59 Productions. The idea of the stage collaboration 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 cliches that pass for innovation in rock'n'roll. The ideas remain very much "in development", but there will be some surprises.

This week everyone will finally get to see the video for 'Go Do', the first single to be taken from 'Go'. Directed by Árni & Kinski (previously responsible for no fewer than six Sigur Rós videos, including 'Glósóli' and 'Viðrar vel til loftárása'), 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.
 
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 Jónsi's Soundcloud page 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.

Listen to Jónsi in an interview with BBC's Zane Lowe. The interview starts 28 minutes into the show. 

North America tour dates:
April 6 Vancouver, Canada - Vogue Theatre
April 7 Vancouver, Canada - Vogue Theatre
April 9 Seattle, WA - The Showbox SoDo
April 10 Seattle, WA - The ShowBox SoDo
April 13 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
April 15 Berkeley, CA - Zellerbach Auditorium
April 16 San Francisco, CA - Palace of Fine Arts
April 18 Indio, CA - Coachella
April 21 Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
April 22 Lawrence, KS - Liberty Hall
April 24 Minneapolis, MN - Pantages Theatre
April 25 Minneapolis, MN - Pantages Theatre
April 26 Milwaukee, WI - The Pabst Theatre
April 27 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
April 28 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
April 30 Toronto, Canada - Sound Academy
May 1 Toronto, Canada - Sound Academy
May 2 Montreal, Canada - Metropolis
May 3 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
May 5 Boston, MA - House of Blues
May 6 Boston, MA - House of Blues
May 8 New York, NY - Terminal 5
May 9 New York, NY - Terminal 5

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