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合計収録時間 | 00:41:04

Full performer name: Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson/Sigur Ros. The soundtrack for Iceland's much celebrated film Englar Alheimsins (Angels of the Universe) lives up to the lavish praise with an overcast and ethereal score composed by a startling duo of Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson and Sigur Ros. With a story revolving around a man losing his mind, this marvelously stark musical accompaniment was certainly essential to the experience. Hilmarsson seems perpetually in tune with the film's despair -- "Nidurlaeging," "Stigid Nidur Til Heljar," "Mattleysi" -- all written with such a complex mixture of opaque strings and acoustic guitars that one imagines the composer having a tragic breakdown of his own during the songwriting process. Sigur Ros has two pieces at the end of the soundtrack as well. While both were originally recorded for the band's Ny Battery EP, they work in equal measure here: "Bium Bium Bambalo" is a long, hypnotic interpretation of an ancient Irish-Icelandic lullaby (making it the first time the song has been transferred from oral tradition to record), whereas "Danarfregnir Og Jardafarir" (Death Announcement and Funerals) is a slightly more prog-rock take on a Joni Muli Arnason composition (Iceland radio service used the original track to relate daily deaths and arrangements). As one can guess, Englar Alheimsins is far from an uplifting experience, yet its stirring, remarkable melancholia is something valuable for anybody in the mood for something strangely special. ~ Dean Carlson

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