new material debuted
16/01/2003

sigur ros played three new songs at the kárahnjúkar protest conference last night in reykjavík. the music was accompanied by a short film entitled ‘fimmta árstíðin’ (the fifth season), which sigur ros co-produced. the film contained aerial landscape shots of iceland. the first two songs played are likely to be recorded in the band’s studio to appear on the upcoming vaka single, but nothing is confirmed yet. for the last piece, jonsi lined himself in the middle of the stage with his mouth gagged, accompanied by a choir which was gagged as well. a microphone was set up in front of jonsi and an extended version of avalon (the last song on ágætis byrjun) came on the pa. after a short while, jonsi took off his gag and sung an operatic improvised vocal accompaniment to avalon. the choir remained silent and gagged the whole time. kjartan came out for a short while and conducted this silent choir in the slow rhythm of avalon.