Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros - Angels Of The Universe. Sigur Ros - Full Discography + Live + Rare + EP - MP3 - By fabi.ace. Find great deals on eBay for sigur ros cd and. AU $33.99 +AU $15.85 postage; Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson & Sigur Ros - Angels Of The Universe 17.
Orn Hilmarsson Hillmar - Angels Of The Universe . Furthermore, the songs Sigur contributed weren't even penned by the band. Sigur simply remixed the songs about, and made them feel more modern. With that out of the way, this album is still fantastic. I'd never heard Hilmarsson's work before this album, and it's safe to say I rank him as one of the more talented musical minds around today. There must be something about Iceland that allows its inhabitants to produce such beautiful art, because all the music I've heard from over there- -Sigur Ros, Mum, Bjork, Hilmarsson- -is unspeakably beautiful. Hilmarsson wrote this album fusing several styles together: there are strong elements of classical music (the Russian composers in particular), background ambience and effects with an electronic touch reminiscent of Sigur Ros or Mum, and finally repeating melodies almost like that of godspeed you! I say almost because gy! Hilmarsson uses it almost like a painter would use the same color over and over on his canvas. In the first four or five songs, there is a repeating tune that goes over and over, with slight variations each time in pattern, rhythm, background, etc. Around track six, that tune twist a bit and almost feels like it corrupts or decays. It becomes surreal and haunting. It builds in volume and intensity- -again, very similar to gy! The second half has its own common features, even elements from the first half, but seems twisted somehow and otherworldly. There's a lot of fierce, distorted noise towards the end like in tracks eleven or twelve. It gets angrier and angrier until it seems to sort of die. The last tracks before Sigur's work are very soft and mournful, almost wind- like. Cue Sigur Ros. I'm a huge fan of Jonsi and the gang, don't get me wrong, but.. Hilmarsson's work is rather unique, it's his own, and you can tell yourself that the last two tracks were implanted by someone else. Maybe in the context of the film the last two songs make more sense, but not here. While they're good songs, more great work from Sigur complete with the signature haunting vocals and reverberations in the background, they don't fit on this album. I'd have preferred Hilmarsson to have finished the disc himself, or even by ending it at Te Morituri. While this is a phenomenal disc, and Hilmarsson definitely deserves five stars and due credit for the music HE wrote, the misplaced elements at the end made me bring it down to a three. Hilmarsson also has another CD out entitled 'Children of Nature,' but I've had no luck in finding it.. He definitely deserves it, for the beauty of his work.
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