A Number Of Small Things/Artists/Seabear products

Seabear & Borko 2008 - Silkscreen Poster 12,00 €

design: Julia Guther

Apfelsin Bros. - Picture Book 24,99 €

Sindri from Sin Fang and Seabear and Örvar from Múm are good friends. They are tattoo buddies. They are football chums. They have travelled all over the world together in a tour bus. It's about time they made a book together. There is something similar about how these boys paint the world. There is a certain crudeness to their aesthetic unravellings, one could liken it to pancreas surgery performed with a spoon. And however colorful, lighthearted and festive their drawings, music or jokes are, there is always a certain self-reflexivity to what they spew. And to chart and map the reoccurring themes of the book, they have included a song. In two parts. It's a jolly romper.

This book contains 80 pages of drawings and it's covered in orange linen weave. Including a 5'' vinyl with digital download code of a collaborative song. Limited to 1000 copies.

Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away from 9,99 €

This album doesn't blurt it out: There is no loud "Ta-Dah!", no exclamation mark. "The ghost that carried us away" flatters in a rather unobtrusive way. However, it has encircled you after the third song at the latest. Fragile hymns of nonchalant casualness, created by the 24-year-old Sindri Már Sigfússon. Guitars, piano, his almost bashful and yet so present voice. "Nature, mortality, love", these are the topics of his debut album. Even the one who listens only briefly, is able to make them out within the sounds. "Do you remember how the things look when you were young."
Reykjavik again. Iceland, the musical heartland. On top of that, there is a violinist with her voice in the clouds: Gudbjörg Hlin Gudmundsdóttir (violine, vocals, harmonica). There further are musicians Sindri shared his hometown and his passion: Orn (guitar, lapsteel) who forms together with Sindri and Gudbjörg the inner triangle of Seabear. Or Eiki, Orvar, Gudni and Dóri. One plays the flugelhorn, the slide-guitar or upright-bass. One belong to the live line-up of Sigur Rós (Eiki). Another is part of the sensational múm (Orvar). Some are stage members of Benni Hemm Hemm's Band - the other Icelandic artist on morr music. Sindri Már Sigfusson has invited them into his small studio, placed them in front of the only microphone, let them think about his musical thoughts. He likes the notion and the feeling of LoFi, Sindri says. Only for the recording of the drums three microphones were used. The result is reminiscent of the reduced stereo recordings of the 1960ies.
Libraries is the most direct promise that pop music is able to make. Tiny and gigantic, unobtrusive and exciting at the same time. A song like a blink into the most beautiful sunrise. A tumbling piano, swinging drums. Melodies, melancholy: "My little bird flew away from me". Or "hands remember", the singing being close to one's ear. "The voice of an old friend", a murmur, two violins. There is later "summer bird diamond", birds twitter to the accords of an old banjo, a glockenspiel. It is almost a radio play, chamber folk. And "seashell" at last, a pocket symphony, arranged around jumping drums. Sufjan Stevens would have done it in a very similar way.

LP-Version contains 2 Bonus Tracks on the extra 7inch "Teenage Kicks"!

Seabear - Teenage Kicks / Piano Hands 4,99 €

Finally back in stock! This is about the essence and the easiness of pop music. Nothing less. And nothing that could described better than with this with this open breathing cover version of the punk rock classic "teenage kicks", originally performed by The Undertones in the late seventies. Reykjavik based Seabear made that a song with many of tones in between, soft, sentimental, mellow and remarkable. Performed with the need of (mostly) five musicians close to their own teenage years. A solid statement of course but one with the softness of a summeresque viola and sparkling piano tunes. And the warm hearted voice of Sindri, who is the spiritus rector in a democratic concept of being a band.
"Piano hands" is what is usually called a side product of the recording sessions for Seabears debut "the ghost that carried us away" released earlier this year on Morr Music. A silent tune with many notes to notice.

Seabear - We Built A Fire from 9,99 €

Defying its humble beginnings as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sindri Már Sigfússon, Seabear has morphed into a rambling experimental/indie/folk septet. Joining Sigfússon (whose unassisted musings are now released via his Sin Fang Bous moniker which just made the American Rolling Stone call him the “Icelandic Beck”) are Gudbjörg Hlin Gudmundsdottir, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, Halldór Ragnarsson, Örn Ingi Ágústsson, Kjartan Bragi Bjarnason and Sóley Stefánsdóttir - all working in a wide range of solo-, band- (Kimono, Skakkamanage) and visual arts-projects in their own right. For their second full length LP, We Built A Fire, all members of the band had equal input in the writing process, thereby creating Seabear's first real collective album.
While Sigfússon's unmistakable voice remains the centerpiece on We Built A Fire, the new joint approach is reflected in songs like "I build you a fire" where the whole band joins in on vocals. While retaining their signature simplistic and addictive naive indie folk ("Wooden Teeth", “Lion Face Boy”), the band have branched out stylistically to include elements of straight up indie rock ("Softship"), intense balladry ("Cold Summer") and even some country twang ("Leafmask").
There is something instantly familiar about Seabear's songs that resonates with fans and critics alike. Despite scant promotion and airplay behind their debut album release, 2007's The Ghost That Carried Us Away, their songs and animated videos were a social media hit generating millions of plays. It's a very Icelandic DIY setup - their music is recorded by the band in their basement studio with its apple carton covered walls. All artwork and videos are hand made by Sindri's partner and band mate Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir.

Vinyl with Gatefold-Artwork and extra poster!

Seabear - Lion Face Boy / Cold Summer 4,99 €

This is the first single from the upcoming second Seabear album "We Built A Fire". While "Lion Face Boy" features the classic Seabear indie-folk-virtues, the flipside "Cold Summer" surprises with an intense and unsettling ballad that breaks new territory and sees the band depart from the radically naive songwriting they have been so far renowned for.
Seabear started out as a one man project of singer/guitarist Sindri Már Sigfússon but grew into todays collective of 7 Icelanders with their debut album "The Ghost That Carried Us Away" in 2007. Seabear will release their second album alongside the "While The Fire Dies" 6-Song EP in March 2010.

Seabear - While The Fire Dies EP 9,99 €

Released in conjunction with their second longplayer 'We built a fire' (on Morr Music), 'While The Fire Dies' brings us six exclusive tracks from this band, that started as solo-project of Sindri Már Sigfússon (aka Sin Fang Bous) and meanwhile has become a creative collective of seven Icelandic musicians.
While the album showcases Seabear's wide range of styles and influences from Indierock to intense balladry, 'While The Fire Dies' focusses more on the band's folky and laid-back side. The countryesque uptempo opener 'Pocket Knife' is followed by alternate acoustic versions of the Seabear classics 'Arms' and 'Singing Arc' as well as the perfect Seabear-ballad 'Bright House'. After a short country twang interlude ('Leafmask II'), this EP ends with 'Doctor', a string-dominated elegy and a perfect epilogue to both: album and EP.
Seabear will hit the road in Spring 2010 playing the Eurosonic, By:Larm and SxSW Festivals followed by tours all over Europe, the US and Canada.

Seabear - We Built A Fire 9,99 €

This limited version contains the cdep 'While The Fire Dies' and a poster!

Defying its humble beginnings as the lo-fi solo project of Icelandic singer/multi-instrumentalist Sindri Már Sigfússon, Seabear has morphed into a rambling experimental/indie/folk septet. Joining Sigfússon (whose unassisted musings are now released via his Sin Fang Bous moniker which just made the American Rolling Stone call him the “Icelandic Beck”) are Gudbjörg Hlin Gudmundsdottir, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, Halldór Ragnarsson, Örn Ingi Ágústsson, Kjartan Bragi Bjarnason and Sóley Stefánsdóttir - all working in a wide range of solo-, band- (Kimono, Skakkamanage) and visual arts-projects in their own right. For their second full length LP, We Built A Fire, all members of the band had equal input in the writing process, thereby creating Seabear's first real collective album.
While Sigfússon's unmistakable voice remains the centerpiece on We Built A Fire, the new joint approach is reflected in songs like "I build you a fire" where the whole band joins in on vocals. While retaining their signature simplistic and addictive naive indie folk ("Wooden Teeth", “Lion Face Boy”), the band have branched out stylistically to include elements of straight up indie rock ("Softship"), intense balladry ("Cold Summer") and even some country twang ("Leafmask").
There is something instantly familiar about Seabear's songs that resonates with fans and critics alike. Despite scant promotion and airplay behind their debut album release, 2007's The Ghost That Carried Us Away, their songs and animated videos were a social media hit generating millions of plays. It's a very Icelandic DIY setup - their music is recorded by the band in their basement studio with its apple carton covered walls. All artwork and videos are hand made by Sindri's partner and band mate Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir.