Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)

Tracklist:

1. "Gobbledigook" – 3:05
2. "Inní mér syngur vitleysingur" (Within me a lunatic sings) – 4:05
3. "Góðan daginn" (Good day) – 5:15
4. "Við spilum endalaust" (We play endlessly) – 3:33
5. "Festival" – 9:24
6. "Með suð í eyrum" (with a buzz in our ears) – 4:56
7. "Ára bátur" (Oar boat/Boat of years) – 8:57
8. "Illgresi" (Weeds) – 4:13
9. "Fljótavík" [A place in Iceland] – 3:49
10. "Straumnes" [A mountain near Fljótavík] – 2:01
11. "All alright" – 6:21

Review de allmusic:

With their fifth full-length album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (translated as With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly), Sigur Rós have taken the poppy, sunshiny leanings of their previous album a step further into the light. The band has always been known for otherworldly soundscapes, and while there is enough of that here to keep the faithful happy, the band also writes straightforward, three-minute pop songs like the incredible catchy, sticky-sweet duo ("Gobbldigook," "Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur") that kick the album off like the first rays of the morning sun blazing through your bedroom window. That feeling continues on through the album as both the joyously soaring vocals and the buoyant melodies keep things floating happily on air. The arrangement of sound is quite different from previous albums, too. In the past their sound was characterized by a great wash of instruments merging together into great, gently heaving walls and waves of sound; on this album, for the most part, you can pick out individual instruments whether it's the acoustic guitar that underpins many of the songs (and provides the main backing on the intimate and quite lovely, and quite un-Sigur Rós-like, "Illgresi") or the lone piano that begins "Ára Bátur" (which does expand out into an epic undertaking with over 90 people including the London Sinfonietta and London Oratory Boy's Choir eventually playing on the track). Despite the few tracks that reach for the heavens, for the first time the band sounds grounded and stripped down. Songs like "Festival," with its pounding bassline and charging drums, and the melancholy album closer, "All Alright," which is based on a lonely piano figure (and features lyrics sung in English for the first time in the group's history), are firmly tethered to earth and shorn of excess artifice. In the past it was easy to be impressed with the sound of Sigur Rós, to be carried away by the grandeur of the band and be hit hard by the titanic emotions. On Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust you can really hear the human hearts behind the wall of sound, and while the emotional impact is on a smaller scale, somehow it is even more affecting.

Samples:
Gobbledigook
Íllgresi
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur


Formato mp3 320kbps


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Henryck Gorecki - Sinfonía Nº 3 "Sorrowful Songs" (1976)

Autor: Henryk Gorecki (1933-presente)
Obra: Sinfonía Nº 3 (Sorrowful Songs)

Un cachito de información robada del wiki:

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Polish: Symfonia pieśni żałosnych), is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal later style.
A solo soprano sings a different Polish text in each of the three movements. The first is a 15th-century Polish lament of Mary, mother of Jesus, the second a message written on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II, and the third a Silesian folk song of mother searching for son killed in the Silesian uprisings.^[1]
The first and third movements are written from the perspective of a
parent who has lost a child, and the second movement from that of a
child separated from a parent. The dominant themes of the symphony are
motherhood and separation through war.

Es de lo más emotivo, solemne y enternecedor que escuché. Una verdadera lástima que compositores como este sean prácticamente desconocidos, incluso en círculos "académicos".

El "género" vendría a ser minimalismo sacro, en una línea similar a la de Arvo Pärt (ya voy a subir algo del tío Arvo también )

Video del 2º Movimiento

La interpretación de Upshaw está mejor que la del video, y suena mucho mejor también.

La calidad de audio es excelente, formato FLAC. La misma calidad de un cd de audio común pero con un peso muy reducido. Si no pueden reproducirlo dejo links para bajar los codecs:

Para winamp: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/143614
Para otros: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
El windows media player creo que baja los codecs automáticamente


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