Brand New & Unopened SIGUR ROS - Agaetis Byrjun A Good Beginning 7 LP boxset KRU

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Brand New & Unopened SIGUR ROS - Agaetis Byrjun A Good Beginning 7 LP boxset KRUNK8DX 

This listing is for brand new, unopened, mint copy of the limited edition SIGUR ROS - Agaetis Byrjun A Good Beginning 7 LP boxset KRUNK8DX. This set is now completely sold out and very rare. This copy is totally mint and unopened, still in the original packaging it was supplied in. 

LIMITED EDITION DELUXE BOXSET

84-page cloth-bound book

2 x lp: ágætis byrjun

2 x lp: live at íslenska óperan 1999

3 x lp: demos, rarities and early live recordings

The band expand their breakthrough album with demo and early live versions of all songs on the album, plus never-before-heard material and other rare nuggets, as well as the full 90-minute concert played in Reykjavík on the day the record was released in 1999.

This super deluxe 7 x vinyl limited edition comes with a lavish book of photos and material from their early days, and is housed in a bespoke linen-bound box.

7 x standard weight LPs, plus 84-page hardback art book in linen-bound slipcase.

live at íslenska óperan 1999

Intro

Von

Syndir Guðs

Flugufresarinn

Olsen Olsen

Ágætis byrjun

Viðrar vel til loftárása

Svefn-g-englar

Ny batterí

Nýja lagið

Hafssól

There is also an immaculate recording of the concert the band played at the Íslenska Óperan (the Icelandic Opera House) on June 12, 1999 to celebrate the release of record that would soon send them around the world on word-of-mouth alone, a pre-internet phenomenon.  Recorded for Icelandic radio, the 95-minute show has not been heard in full since it was broadcast live on the day 20 years ago. 

In a note of poignancy, the show at the Íslenska Óperan would be the last original drummer Águst Gunnarsson would play with his fellow band mates,  vocalist/guitarist Jón Thor Birgisson, bassist Georg Holm and keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson, who himself had only officially joined the band the year before.

Live at Íslenska Óperan 1999 has been specially mixed for the 20th anniversary edition by Kjartan from the band and Birgir Birgisson, who all those years ago made the original RAS 2 radio recording of the event.  Birgir would later go on to be engineer at Sigur Rós’s house studio, Sundlaugin.

demos, rarities and early live recordings

Svefn-g-englar   (Live at Popp í Reykjavík, 1998)

Starálfur   (Original speed version)

Flugufrelsarinn   (1998 Demo)

Ný batterí   (Instrumental)

Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm)   (1995 Demo)

Viðrar vel til loftárása   (Alternative ending)

Olsen Olsen   (1998 Demo)

Ágætis byrjun   (1998 Demo)

Hugmynd 1   (1998 Demo)

Hugmynd 2   (1998 Demo)

Hugmynd 3   (1998 Demo)

Debata mandire   (Live at Laugardashöll, 1999)

Rafmagnið búið   (From Ný batterí EP, 2000)

The demos, rarities and early live recordings, which stretch across six sides of vinyl, have been pulled together from the band’s own personal archive and contain many recordings they had forgotten existed.  Songs have guide vocals, or are played at different speeds, with alternative arrangements and no words – not even Hopelandic.  They are snapshots of a band trying things out and about to find their feet in a spectacular way. 

In some cases the only source might be a single, unlabelled cassette and, as a result, the odd glitch is part of the patina of age. These songs have been hand-picked by the band to include nascent versions of every song on Ágætis byrjun*, alongside demos of songs that didn’t make the cut, and the long sought after Debata Mandire, on which Jónsi and Kjartan duet in keening falsettos, before, as Kjartan says in the extensive sleeve notes, his “bad habits” robbed him of the ability to sing that high. 

84-page cloth-bound book

The deluxe vinyl boxset also includes an 84-page linen-bound slipcase featuring visual content drawn from the Sigur Rós archive (aka an overstuffed case in Kjartan’s studio).  Handwritten string arrangements, lost artwork ideas and early ‘business cards’ are seen alongside candid images of the band at the moment just before their lives changed. 

All the musical content available in the deluxe vinyl edition is mirrored in the expanded 4 x CD edition, and is included in the double vinyl version as a download code.  

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