#Happiness by Jónsi and Alex Somers

[charseraph]

Letting myself feel to a nice song. Perfect melancholy.

[dragodina]

I just love that song so damn much:

The live version is even a tiny bit better:

What an awesome beautiful musical masterpiece 🥰❤️

Even after 13 years I'm still getting so damn emotional listening to that song 😭. And it keeps inspiring me for my own ideas and just leaves me with a positive feeling. Even after all this time ❤️.

The whole album "Riceboy Sleeps" is simply amazing ❤️.

[agaetis]

Jónsi & Alex Somers - Happiness - Riceboy Sleeps

[letsplayballet]

8 and 23 for the song asks?

8. A song that you liked when you were 10 that still slaps

“In A Big Country” by Big Country, which remains one of my top 5 80s songs

23. A song that when you listen to it you’re transported to a liminal space, time is pointless and you must sit and wallow in the void that remains

honestly there’s A Lot but i’m gonna say “Happiness” by Jónsi and Alex Somers bc i have a near-pavlovian relax response to it thanks to my old ballet teacher using it in yoga all the damn time

[phroyd]

Song - Happiness

Artist - Jónsi & Alex Somers

Album - Riceboy Sleeps

Phroyd

[quarantinemusiccalendar]

Day 36: Jónsi - Go

This one is a dreamy atmospheric delight. Full of joy.

After releasing and touring 5 albums with Sigurd Rós and making a pure ambiente record with his partner Alex Somers, Jón Þór Birgisson, commonly known as Jónsi, felt like making a solo record. And so in the spring of 2010 we got an album named very simply: Go. And as was to be expected from a frontman and the creative engine of Sigurd Rós, he again created magical soundscapes full of instrumental swells, feedback and wails, but compared to all previous Sigurd Rós records and the ambiente Riceboy Sleeps record he did with Alex, the choice of instruments he used make it a very happy record. On top of all the usual ones and a range of string instruments, he has put a lot of bells, celeste, glockenspiel and harp, but also a variety of random objects that make intristing sounds when used as pescussions, including a beer tray in. None of the songs is dark as we’re used to from the Sigurd Rós discography. Three of the songs start sort of in a sad, somber or meditative spot and then grow and are lifted both vocally and instrumentally into amazing hight. But a good number of tracks are a pure joy and happiness in various tempo. Some of them are downright euphoric. His soundscapes are also populated with way more sounds then what we tend to get from Sigurd Rós. He explained that, in the band they tend to be a bit lazy with their sounds and that’s why it’s so minimal. But this time he felt like using the space fully. Also working with Nico Muhly (Björk, Grizzly Bear, Glen Hansard) as a producer, who is in Jónsi’s own words very energetic and tends to work very fast, pushed him to fill the soundscapes with happy sounding instrument up to the brim. Also, this time around he wrote and included several songs in English.

Jónsi explained that the album is generally about hopes and fears and also carries an idea of encouragement to go and do everything one wanted to do and achieve. That’s clearly the message behind the opening track Go Do. Similarly, Grow Till Tall also circles around the same topic. It seems to be a a tree-like analogy about growing and developing as a person. And while Go Do is a rich up-tempo Kolniður is a song about fear. It channels the ideas of fear as a gut feeling in stomach that holds an individual down and keeps him from doing things and realizing his dreams.

Animal Aritmetic is a cacophony of sounds and verses bursting at seams with pure joy and feeling of being alive.

New Piano Song is not on the regular Go album. You would find it on the live Go Live record.

Happy Wednesday, relax and enjoy.

Album highlights: - Go Do - Animal Arithmetic - Kolniður - Grow Till Tall - New Piano Song (live)

Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3bB5lH7

[malenkaya-glosoli]

All the anti-LGBT+ talk I heard in church became especially upsetting to me when I learned of Jónsi and his boyfriend Alex Somers, because I love them very much and I want them to be happy together, but every time I told a family member of mine that I want LGBT+ people to be happy as they are, I always got told "no". One time at church the pastor said you can't be both gay and a Christian, which broke my heart to hear because I knew that this isn't what Jesus wanted us to be saying, but even then I couldn't be sure because everyone was so adamant about homosexuality being a sin and a choice, and every time I told family that people are born gay, it's not a sin and they can't choose it, I would always get lectured with phrases like "you can love the person but you can't love everything they do", "what does the Bible say about this?", "what would God think?"... I was so scared that I would go to Hell just for supporting a gay couple even though I could never turn on them and no one ever said I would go to Hell for loving their relationship. I'm not really religious (but that doesn't mean I'm not still a Christian), not just for this reason, but especially because of it and also how no one in my family would believe me once I learned of the mistranslations. Whenever I brought those up, I would always be accused of believing everything I read. Once, when I said that I wouldn't mind gaining a wife if any husband of mine were to transition from male to female, I was asked "Why would you let someone live like that?" And when I said I think I might be bisexual, I was basically told that it was hopefully just a phase even though I didn't say I was bisexual, I only said I think I MIGHT be. They say it's a lifestyle (I can't bear that word when it's used against LGBTQA+ people), they say they don't believe in it and that they don't agree with it. It was so frustrating that it became yet another reason for me to wish for Jónsi and Alex to adopt me, even though I know they can't. I was afraid until I found the site HopeRemainsOnline. It completely took away my fear. It is a Christian site, but it is pro-LGBTQA+. They have the translations of certain verses and analyses of the original languages and more. For example, what we know as "A man shall not lie in bed with another man as he would with a woman" was analysed and compared to the original Greek and the direct translation from the Greek read basically as "two men shall not lie together if in a woman's bed because a woman's bed is a woman's place". And my family would not believe it at all, and one of them told me they'd be shocked if what I found did turn out to be the real truth. I was disappointed, but of course I was not surprised. They're so insistent that it is a sin that when I look at the Bible, when I'm not comparing it to other translations in other languages, I'm looking at the messages of love, hope, understanding and acceptance because it makes me feel that at least I understand it for what the real truth is and that at least I have found what too many have misunderstood and lost. The site may have ended my fear, but it hasn't ended my frustration. If I were to tell a Christian gay person "I hope you find Jesus", I'd mean that instead of making them "stop" being gay (which of course is impossible for them), I'd mean for them to understand that God loves them just the way they are regardless of who they love and no matter what most "Christians" say. I wish more Christians would be like this.

Not all Christians are bad, but hear me out.

Growing up Christian I lived in fear. I feared what God thought of me. I feared what other Christians thought of me. As I got older I started depending on God less. I moved in with my fiancé at the time only a year ago (or so). He then told me that he wanted to repent. He wanted to stop having sex until we were married. So I complied and we got married in a hurry. I was not ready to be married yet. I didn’t want to be married yet. But because of the belief of “The One” and Christianity I gave in and married him. Only 5 months of marriage I got scared of him. I left him. After I left I realized a lot of his behavior towards me was abuse. You see, I’m autistic and mentally ill. He used that to control me. He manipulated me into marriage. He said he was trying to save us, to save me, but he forced me into marriage. After that I learned to recognize abuse. I learned that I was also abusive, mainly from my mental illness but I didn’t want to be abusive so I’m trying (and getting better) to change. I also saw abuse in Christianity. Using the fear of hell to keep people from sinning. That’s manipulation. That is abuse.

Not all Christians are bad, in fact I’m friends with some Christians and they still love me even though I never go to church. But in my opinion, Christianity is abusive.

[charseraph]

Weeping listening to Jónsi and Alex Somers’ live performance of Happiness at the Sydney Opera House.

I think if it also had Daníell In The Sea I’d be demolished.

[dragodina]

10 Songs, 10 People

Thanks so much @except4bunnies for tagging me 😊! That was interesting, a bit emotional but so much fun 🙂.

Since I don't have Spotify I just shuffled my phones music libary.

This is possibly going to be real odd for me 😅 (me and my very strange taste in music 🙈)

But anyway, here we go:

1. "Midnight City" - M83

I don't know why but that song just really positively lightens my mood and makes me want to sing the lyrics loudly at the end and dance along ... against the beat (so I don't). There is even a drum cover from Coop3rdrumm3r on Youtube that I like just as much as the original because, suprise, it has some more additional drums.

2. "Poison" - Freya Ridings

My favourite song of Freyas first album, to me it has some Bond touch to it and her voice ist just soo wonderful. Then those touching lyrics. And listening to them now I feel in some way they are pretty fitting for Julia Grosz and Ela Erol (small wink to @except4bunnies 😉✌🏼).

3. "Cosmic Love" - Florence And The Machine

FATM definitely belongs to my top 3 favourite artists. Not only does she has a unique breathtaking voice but also her lyrics are so heartwrenchingly beautiful. Especially with "Cosmic Love" but also "Falling" in particular. Florence just writes songs and words like they are poems, each song being a chapter and leaves me in awe, in tears and in wonder. And I absolutely love how she includes ever so often a choir in her songs, that feeling of many voices singen her lyrics together with her voice is just so damn powerful (especially in her debut album). And sometimes I'm a sucker for just one line of lyrics that becomes very special to me.

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map

And knew that somehow I could find my way back

Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too

So I stayed in the darkness with you

4. "Evigheden" - Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Funny enough (and my music player did that all on its own) Scala is a girls choir from Belgium that became famous for their cover versions. And I absolutely freak-fu**Ing love them. For about ten years I made it a tradition to see them live at least once a year. Another of that top 3 artists of mine. "Evigheden" is just so gently beautiful. Every time I hear that song I close my eyes and at some point it just hits me right in the feels ... and in the heart. The end of the song always seems to destroy me. I can't remember ever not crying when that song comes on. To listen to it live is even harder but also more special. I remember that one time, after loosing a very close loved one, I went to their concert, they played that song. And I burst out in tears sobbing. But I felt it was some sort of a good crying, because I was so deep in memories and the music brought me there and carried me through. It was really embarassing but somehow I needed that in that moment. It will always have a special place in my heart.

(The atmosphere this creates is just so freaking crazy ... yes ladies at 2:45 and 5:42, I get you 😭)

5. "Take Me Home" - Jess Glynne

Another female artist with. I absolutely love her uptempo and dancy souly songs yet the lyrics for "Take Me Home" are so beautiful and Jess voice is just so full of soul.

Came to you with a broken faith

Gave me more than a hand to hold

Caught before I hit the ground

Tell me I′m safe, you've got me now

Could you take care

Of a broken soul?

6. "Happiness" - Jónsi & Alex Somers

No lyrics. Just sound. And that so beautiful that it always takes my breath away, brings me to tears, touches me on another level. Especially the live version of theor performance at the White Festival. Jónsi is part of Sigur Rós and Alex Somers back then was his partner. They together released that one album called "Riceboy Sleeps". One of my favourite albums of all times. There are so many feels, so much history that I can't put into few words. Just that its very special to me.

7. "Hero" - Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott

Song to the first "Spider-Man" movie with Tobey Macguire. I liked that one back then 😅. Honestly I haven't listened to that in ages but I sang along right away. Such a cool song after all those years. Even though I'm still chuckling by the beginning line "I'm so high, I can hear heaven". Yeah Spidey, what good stuff did you take?

Someone told me

Love would all save us

But, how can that be

Look what love gave us

A world full of killing

And blood spilling

Now that the world isn't ending

It's love that I'm sending to you

It isn't the love of a hero

(That historical up side down kiss scene 😍 I need something like this for Tinia ..... 😅🥰🙈)

8. "La Terre Vue Du Ciel" - Armand Armar

I'm a bit of a sportsfreak (maybe not so much for the WM right now but normally I really am). I didn't know the song before but in 2018 at the winter olympics Aljons Savchenko & Bruno Massot performance to it. I'm not so much into figure skating but that performance had me in awe, made me speechless. Because it was so damn perfect, just as the song. I really screamed at my screen when they took home gold.

9. "Tornado" - Jónsi

Okay, I probably don't have to state it, but I'm a huge . His first solo album Was just awesome! I love it still so much. And I did had the chance to see his live. I was so insecure back then myself, really shy and I'm an introvert. But I wanted to see him live so badly that me (coming from a small town in saxony) drove to the big city Berlin. I was shoved and mocked. But it was all okay and fine in the end because just to see him live and hear the songs made it all allright.

I wonder if I'm allowed ever to see

I wonder if I'm allowed to ever be free

(That intro and that drummer ...)

10. "Unser Stern" - Ron van Lankeren

Okay, now it get's really embarassing ...

One song from the soundtrack of the anime "Digimon". That was my youth. I loved that anime. And I can still sing along to all of those songs. ALL OF THEM. I probably should look up where I can watch that again, just for the feeling of good old times.

Unofficial additional number (because I made a stupid mistake and suddenly had two number 5s and continued on, wooopsi 🙈)

11. "Ny Batter��" - Sigur Rós

Yep. Thanks smartphone, I almost thought it would leave me without a Sigur Rós song. Sigur Rós. That one band that changed my life completely when I was a teenager. Jónsi with his falsetto voice, the bowed guitar and that way of using his voice as an instrument rather than singing lyrics (they called it hopelandic). At first I even thought it was a woman singing 😅. I don't even know if there is one song of them that I don't like. And yes, it's strange. It's so strange. But I just simply love their music. I can't even describe that feeling. Ever since I first heard that bowed guitar solo intro of the live version of "Ny Batterí" I was under their spell.

There is so much history, so much emotions, so much tragedy and joy and everything in between I connect with their music. The way that "Sæglópur" carried me through when I needed emergency surgery twice and was so fucking scared. My brother came into the hospital and left me with his MP3 player where he had put on all their albums for me to listen to.

Sometimes all you need is to hear, to feel, to listen. And to let go. No words needed. But make up your own story to the music.

Sigur Rós did that for me. And so much more.

Since probably all people that I know and follow around here already got tagged for this I will not tag again or evetypne will get this twice or thrice 😅.

Just have a wonderful 2. advent evening and a good start to the new week all you lovely peoples 😊!

[weownthenitenyc]

After an incredible New York debut in May, the David Lynch Foundation is excited to announce the 4th iteration of the Festival of Disruption, which will return to the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles on October 13th and 14th.

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PRESS HERE for tickets for the immersive festival, curated entirely by auteur filmmaker/artist David Lynch and presented by ALEX AND ANI, which go on sale June 20th at 10 am PT. The weekend will again unite David Lynch’s favorite creatives across disciplines and genres for a unique lineup of musical and artistic performances, talks, film screenings, art exhibits, meditation sessions and more, all with the goal of raising consciousness and funds for the David Lynch Foundation.

The event takes its name from one of Lynch’s favorite quotes, attributed to the founder of Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: “Life is a festival of disruption.” Indeed, only from the mind of Lynch could such a collection of artists join forces for this once-in-a-lifetime weekend. All of the participants were chosen because they champion creativity, experimentation, integrity, beauty, depth and kindness – they embody the spirit of Festival of Disruption.

“The Festival of Disruption is not only a music festival, it ‘ s also an art festival and forum for speakers to share ideas and inspire creativity. It promotes Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to end suffering for the people and bring happiness and peace. The Festival of Disruption wants to disrupt the old bad, and bring in the new good!” – David Lynch

The musical lineup is led by Wu-Tang Clan founder RZA, who will re-score the classic 1978 kung-fu film “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” from the opening sequence to closing credits, syncing scenes from the movie with tracks from Wu-Tang’s legendary discography. Leading the daytime programming, David Lynch himself will participate in an audience Q&A while attendees are treated to complimentary coffee and donuts. Multiple Academy Award-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will also give an audience Q&A and introduce a screening of his 1996 film “Jack” starring Robin Williams.

“I thought it would be interesting to show what is usually considered my worst film. As films are generally like your children you tend to favor those that are the most disadvantaged.” – Francis Ford Coppola

In addition, Sigur Rós’ Jónsi will team with collaborators Alex Somers and Paul Corley for Liminal Soundbath, a meditative light and sound experience which repurposes music from throughout their collective catalogs to hypnotic effect.

Other highlights include a rare stateside visit from legendary performer Grace Jones, who will discuss and screen her documentary “Bloodlight and Bami,” rising star rapper Vic Mensa, the second-ever performance from longtime Lynch fan Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas) and DJ QBert, a DJ set by members of Los Angeles-based band Saint Motel, and a musical trip back in time with Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.

In a performance sure to delight longtime Lynch aficionados, renowned classical ensemble Dover Quartet will play music from their Twin Peaks Suite, while Nashville musician Justin Johnson, whom Lynch discovered on YouTube, will treat festival-goers to his signature approach to blues and roots music. Longtime David Lynch Foundation supporters Dylan Carlson (Earth) and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) will also perform during Festival of Disruption, while writer Barry Gifford will be featured in conversation in tandem with a screening of “Wild at Heart,” Lynch’s 1990 film adaptation of Gifford’s book of the same name.

Highlighting Lynch’s ongoing involvement in multiple artistic motifs, the festival will stage the U.S. premiere of his photography and sculpture collaboration with fashion designer Christian Louboutin entitled “Fetish,” first presented in 2007 at Galerie du Passage in Paris. Additional performers will be added at a later date.

Proceeds from Festival of Disruption benefit the David Lynch Foundation, whose mission is reducing toxic stress and trauma among at-risk populations, including victims of domestic violence, veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress, and underserved urban youth, through the evidence-based Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. In line with this mission, the festival will welcome New York Times best-selling author Dr. Norman Rosenthal to discuss the psychological benefits of TM.

Previous Festival of Disruptions brought together Robert Plant, St. Vincent, Bon Iver, The Kills, TV On The Radio, Sharon Van Etten, Laura Marling, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Animal Collective, Angel Olsen, Au Revoir Simone, Reggie Watts, Questlove, Moby, Shepard Fai rey, Flying Lotus, Jon Hopkins, Dean Hurley, LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang, John Malkovich, Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Naomi Watts, Bill Hader, Pete Holmes, Isabella Rossellini, Brian Koppelman, Gregory Crewdson, Frank Gehry, Ed Ruscha, “Twin Peaks” cast and crew members including Sheryl Lee, and many more for wildly successful weekends. Attendees were captivated by the immersive Lynchian world created at The Theatre at Ace Hotel and Brooklyn Steel with custom décor, bespoke food & beverage, and photo and virtual reality exhibits that reflected the filmmaker ‘ s incomparable vision.

As presenting sponsor,  ALEX AND ANI  will have a pop-up shop at the Festival featuring their limited edition collection designed in collaboration with David Lynch himself. Twenty percent of the purchase price of each ALEX AND ANI x David Lynch Foundation accessory benefits the organization’s mission to prevent + eradicate toxic stress among at-risk populations. New items to the charity collection will debut at the festival, including a beautiful Fish Hook Necklace and “Twin Peaks” themed Coffee and Donut Bangles. The ALEX AND ANI x David Lynch Foundation collection first debuted in October 2017 and has raised more than $250,000 for the Foundation to date.

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