No, that's just how it turned out to be. Usually we never have a definite plan of what we're doing. That's just sort of how it ends up. We just get together, set up our gear and start jamming. Someone starts playing something and the rest of us are just mucking about.
"Kjartan "Kjarri" Sveinsson" is former keyboardist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He joined the band in 1998. A multi-instrumentalist, he has also played such instruments as the flute, tin whistle, oboe and even the banjo, as well as many of the unorthodox instruments that contribute to Sigur Rós's distinctive sound. He also plays the guitar.
Kjartan has performed under the pseudonym "The Lonesome Traveller" with Sigur Rós band-mate Orri Páll Dýrason and Amiina violinist María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (whom Kjartan married in 2001). "The Lonesome Traveller" covered Sigur Rós songs acoustically in an Alternative country/alt-country style.
Kjartan also composed scores for the 2005 Academy Awards/Academy Award nominated short film The Last Farm/Síðasti bærinn (The Last Farm), for award winning director Ramin Bahrani's 2009 short film Plastic Bag (film)/Plastic Bag which features the narration of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, and for the 2009 film Ondine (film)/Ondine directed by Neil Jordan. Kjartan also contributes to Sigur Rós's orchestral and string arrangements, along with the group Amiina. He is also featured heavily on The Album Leaf's album, In a Safe Place, playing a wide variety of instruments.
More Kjartan Sveinsson on Wikipedia.There were so many things going on at that time. For the band and personally, with everyone getting into this music-business thing, touring, all that ? everything was getting kind of heavy for us. I mean, we're just four boys from Iceland.
No, we almost never improvise on stage. We're not clever enough for improvisation. We'd just mess it up.
I think people are just getting bored of the clichés. And I think people are finding more and more they can do different things and try other things out and not be dependent on ... whatever. I think that's a very good thing in music in general. And a lot of people are doing that a lot now.
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