biggi - vocals, guitar
tim simenon - live electronics,
ben chetwood - drums, glockenspiel and samplers,
iain wilson - electric violin and bass,
ricardo gosalbo genout - accordion and keyboards,
natalie spicer - oboe,
jak berry - flute,
viktor steinarsson - guitar,
god - everything else.
Influences
horror movies and surreal books
good friends
people who are driven
haruki murakami
swedish pixie girls, with strange voices like stina nordenstam or karin dreijer from the knife
minimal electropopmusic
bjork, the mother of creative icelandic music
anyone, who does when the odds are against them
dead rebels, like nick drake, nina simone, serge gainsbourg, chet baker and billie holiday
frozen cats like, haukur morthens, jon muli, erla thorsteinsdottir og elly vilhjalms
my old band, maus. wich i will be a proud member of until death do us apart
musicians who turn sadness into beauty, like the cure, notwist, portishead, sufjan stevens, bonnie prince billie, neil young, the shangri-la's, johnny cash and elliott smith altough he blew it at the end... fell into shadow, so to speak.
people with balls who don´t give a fuck what you think, like nick cave, pj harvey, kukl and tom waits.
people who push the limits, like steve reich, can, the mars volta, einsturzende neubauten, ghostigital and aphex twin.
people who make me dance like, michael jackson, !!!, diana ross, moloko, ratatat, m.i.a., le tigre, the stone roses, fischerspooner, plumb dj's, arcade fire, and anyone who can move me enough to shake these bones on the dancefloor.
"I would call it beautiful, but gorgeous doesn..t even begin to describe it. Simply put, it..s the kind of music you..ll pay import prices for, and while you wait for your CD to arrive, you..ll listen to the same songs on MySpace over and over and over."
Emily Strong. Soundcheck magazine, US.
"id is an album that quietly sparkles with deep-space lullabies and headphone techno.
Most tracks are remiscent of the richly hued and kaleidoscopic designs of a Cubist painting, they are busy stretches of sonic swirls, riding a shuffling groove. But the jewel in the album..s crown belongs to "Sofdu med ljosid a," a gorgeous digital epic that captures the heart with its warm washes of muted synths. Like a hot spike burning through ice, the song cuts deep and betrays a sadness so lovely, it hurts.
At present, Biggi has yet to crack the North American market. Until he does, id remains a tiny gem tucked away in a cove of obscurity, making it a valuable find."
Imran Khan, Inside Entertainment, Canada
my name is Birgir Orn Steinarsson, i've been the singer/guitarist of icelandic band Maus for quite some time now. everyone calls me biggi, and your welcome to do so as well. i moved from my hometown of reykjavik, iceland, to London late 2004, to focus on my creative work. there i finished my debut solo album called "id", wich was released by 12 tónar in iceland and scandinavia mid october ..06.
the album was produced by tim simenon and geoff smith and mixed by jono podmore.
i also work as a producer, producing both my own album with them and others. so far ive recorded albums with kimono, lokbra and bag of joys. recently i've been doing some remixes for other bands. send me a line, if you have some music you would like me to bigitize!...
currently i..m back in iceland again slowly working on my second album. i..ve put all performances on hold and i..m hoping to release a new album next year, 2009... when i..ve had time to finish. some of the song will feature the bigital orchestra, my gang in London, but other guests will be on it as well...
my old band maus have just released a new song, eerrrr... well, it was recorded in september 2004 but it hasn..t seen the light of day until now. the new song, called cover my eyes, has been made available for download with our entire catalog online through grapewire.net. see below.
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A new B.Sig song called "Far away" performed ad Cafe Rosenberg, Reykjavík will be available for our fans at our www.myspace.com/bsigmusic for a couple of days. This is an unreleased song, pls tell us if you think this song should go on next album or not.
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Bandið var stofnað í enda 2008 af þeim Trausta Laufdal Aðalsteinssyni og Óskari Þór Arngrímssyni félögum úr hljómsveitinni Lokbrá. Hljómsveitin er þessa daganna að taka upp sína fyrstu breiðskífu. Pontiak Pilatus spilar tónlist í anda m.a Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beatles, Rolling Stones, ELO, Kinks, Trúbrot, Hljómar, Chuck Berry, Oasis, The Verve, Ride & Traveling Wilbury's svo einhvað sé nefnt.
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