ÁGÆTIS BYRJUN

When i first heard their music i was completely blown away! It was my first year attending art school...i had just moved into a new city & it was my first time out on my own. I felt like a newly hatched bird so tiny and helpless ( but at the same time i was also excited as hell) to spread my wings and fly to a whole new world. The first few months where very difficutt , i'm a very shy person and don't make friends easily.the only person i did know at the time was my roomate jesse. He was sort of a ''beatnick'' of sorts, he turned me on to the hauntingly beautiful peoms of joni mitchel's music on vinyl, the techno elegentence of the band air, not to mention the awsome smell of burning insence mixing with the night sky. *on that same night he changed my life forever... He played singur ros'es '' agaetis byrjun.''i had heard a lot of out- of- the ordinary music in my short life time, i myself am out - of- the ordinary chick so naturaly i'm drawn to any/ and allthings ''weird'' or unuseall. Nothing however could prepare me for hearing this band for the first time. I'm still, even years later unable to comprehend how thier sound was able to sooth me so much, it didn't matter that i could'nt translate most of the lyrics because it was the most beautiful & uniuqe music i had ever heard. For me, when i'm overwhelmed with how crazy life can get i feel like my whole body is wound up so tight evenually just goes completely numb. Not only did sigur's music penitrate my'' outer shell'' it also found it's way deep inside my subconious....i know how crazy this sounds but seriuosly - it was like it was chasing away everthing that had hurt me or made me feel anything less then a complete person. My body felt more alive that night then i only felt since i was a child. I did'nt realize intill that momemt how much of me was'nt whole. It's true my life has seen it's share of heartbreak and tragites but i never expected one album to have that much of an effect on m e.... But man oh- man! I'm so glad it did!! Music really is the universal healer i 'm walking proof of that. Thank you jesse you crazy beatnick