Harvest Records to Sponsor Free Screening of Sigur Ros Documentary
(Asheville, NC) – Harvest Records will sponsor a free screening of the Icelandic group SIGUR ROS' first documentary feature film on Monday, November 19th at the Fine Arts Theatre (36 Biltmore Ave) in downtown Asheville. The screening will be held at 9:30pm, and tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis at the box office, which will open 30 minutes before screening.
Heima -- which translates as both "At Home" and "Homeland" in Icelandic -- chronicles a series of free concerts Sigur Ros played in their native country over the course of summer 2006. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world's most fascinating and inscrutable bands captured live while exploring their natural habitat like never before.
Material from all four of the band's albums is featured, including many rare and notable moments. Among these are a heart-stopping rendition of the previously unreleased "Gitardjamm", filmed inside a derelict herring oil tank in the far West Fjords; a windblown, one-mic recording of "Vaka", shot at a dam protest camp subsequently drowned by rising water; and first time acoustic versions of such rare live beauties as "Staralfur", "Agaetis Byrjun" and "Von".
Harvest Records will also be selling Sigur Ros cd's for purchase following the film, as well as taking preorders for the 2xDVD edition of Heima, due out in early December.
For more information on this event, please contact Harvest at 828.258.2999 or the Fine Arts Theatre at 828.232.1536. For more information on Harvest Records, contact co-owners Mark Capon and Matt Schnable at 828.258.2999 or harvestrecords@gmail.com.