Heima

Finally received my copy of the Sigur Rós film “Heima“.

The film follows the band as they put on free gigs around random and often bizarre locations around iceland. They obviously did this, and made the film because they love and cherish their country. The film is beautiful as it cuts between their performances and scenes of the landscape.

The most amazing thing is the music of course, and I dunno how the sound engineer has done it but I’ve never heard them sound so good, the audio is so bright and crisp and powerful. And I was only watching it on a 2-channel setup. God knows what it sounds like in DTS.

I bought the special edition, which has the 2 dvd’s stored in a very luxurious photo album esq book. It’s the best “limited edition” I’ve ever had, the box is completely solid and heavy, and the book feels almost hand made. Unfortunately most of the photo’s seem to be printed way too dark. I dunno if that’s an artistic decision or bad profiling at the printers?

The 2nd DVD pretty must extends the film, in fact it’s probably more meaty, as it has the entire songs, plus it’s full of quite crazy scenes, such as a long scene where the band are taken on a tour around this guy’s museum of musical memorabilia, it’s basically just his house with some junk in it.

Anyway, you just have to see this film. If you aren’t already sold on Sigur Rós, you most definitely will be after watching it.