yep i made a facebook thing. i will upload some songs when they let me. here it is: http://www.facebook.com/pages/seabear/22226177099
we are playing a show with our friends hjaltalín (www.myspace.com/hjaltalinband) and parachutes (www.myspace.com/parachutesmakesongs) on the 17th of july.
in september-october we will go on tour wih the legendary borko (www.myspace.com/borkoborko) around europe.
we are currently having lots of fun recording the new album and if we're lucky it'll come out this year.
thank you very much to people messaging and commenting nice things. even though we dont manage to reply to all of you i hope you know its a great encouragement for us.
yep we're working on a new album these days and it's going great.. let's hope it will come out this year. meanwhile you can enjoy these youtube videos of seabear covers. best, sindri.
our good friend matti the super photographer tagged along for a few days on our europe tour with múm and mr.silla & mongoose. here you can read about his experience and see some fun pictures: http://icecreamman.com/review/detail/matthias-scandinavian-tour-seabear-mum-mr-silla-mongoose
and here he has made a slideshow of most of the pictures he took: http://www.matthiasarni.com/seabearslide/index.html
there are also lots and lots of pictures from the tour taken by various nice people on flickr: http://flickr.com/search/?q=seabear
everyones favorite bass player, dóri, has also opened his new website with his artwork on it, www.hragnarsson.com, chicka check it out.
hello! we are getting ready these days to play in lots of places in europe with múm. hope to see you there. we did a couple of fun recordings of 'arms' and 'i sing i swim' for icelandairwaves podcast a few weeks ago. if you go to youtube.com and type in 'seabear' you should be able to find it. also now on youtube our video for 'i sing i swim'
here are a few reviews by nice people i found on the internet: http://www.itsatrap.com/reviews.php?r=249 (english) http://www.rjominn.is/reviews/show/456/ (icelandic) http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2920 (english) http://indiemuse.com/2007/11/09/seabear-the-ghost-that-carried-us-away/ (english) http://www.grapevine.is/default.aspx?show=paper&part=fullstory&id=1672 (english) http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/s/seabear/the_ghost_that_carried_us_away/index.htm (german) http://super45.cl/2007/10/08/seabear-the-ghost-that-carried-us-away-morr-music/ (spanish) http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=1799&type=Albums (english) http://www.herohill.com/2007/02/reviews-seabear-ghost-carried-us-away.htm (english) http://www.exitmusic.ch/rezensionen/kurz_gefasst/seabear_the_ghost_that_carried_us_away.html (german) http://dagensskiva.com/2007/07/25/seabear-the-ghost-that-carried-us-away/ (swedish) http://www.popnews.com/popnews/seabear/ (french) http://www.m-la-music.net/Seabear-The-Ghost-That-Carried-Us.html (french) http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2007_seabear.htm (italian) http://www.vitaminic.it/2007/10/seabear-the-ghost-that-carried-us-away/ (italian) http://www.dedication.it/trlist-seabear.htm (italian) http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/5750/181/ (australian) http://www.platomania.nl/maniagenre.asp?cdid=23997&platomanianr=235 (holland) http://www.qromag.com/reviews/album_reviews/seabear_:_the_ghost_that_carried_us_away/ (english) http://puddlegum.net/seabear-these-are-the-things-the-things-that-dreams-are-made-of/ (english) http://www.textura.org/reviews/seabear.htm (english) http://www.sentireascoltare.com/CriticaMusicale/Monografie/seabear.html (spanish) http://derstandard.at/?url=/?ressort=Lieblingsplatte (german) http://www.thetripwire.com/news/2007/11/8/on-the-cover-seabear (english) http://forestgospel.blogspot.com/ (english) http://www.groove.se/site/artikel.asp?artId=237 (swedish)
the ghost that carried us away is out in the US. you can order it from places like amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-That-Carried-Us-Away/dp/B000RPCRN6/ref=_sr_1_5/104-5447699-9431917?e=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191929444&sr=8-5
yep the ghost that carried us away is out in europe and you should be able to get it at nice record stores. unfortunatly smekkleysas webstore has quit so the only way to get the icelandic version of the album is from this place:
it's also out on Itunes and will be released in america in september i think.
the morr music version of the album will feature this nice video made by our friend lars in high def: http://youtube.com/watch?v=p0M6s_OIRNc
you should also check out the super nice video inga made for our nice friends in múm: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VhS-csU0k1U she also made the artwork for their new album, Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy, coming out soon, an album that i highly recommend.
yeahp the new album is out today in iceland. icelandic version has a different cover and eight pictures inside it. avalible in all musicstores in iceland and on www.smekkleysa.net. all the best, sindriii
hello hello. time for a little update. the new album is almost ready and is being mixed now. it will come out on the lovely morr music records (www.morrmusic.com) in may. you can listen to some of it on the radioshow hlaupanótan and live acoustic songs and some unreleased one's too. hosted by the very nice kira kira (www.myspace.com/trallaladykirakira). can be streamed here: http://dagskra.ruv.is/streaming/ras1/?file=4314655 interview in icelandic but everything else in english.
