The high вЂEвЂ™ that I play there came out like a radar, like a submarine radar sound.

It was called the submarine song at the start because my organ that I was using then, I was plugging it through an amplifier and the frequency aspect of the amplifier and the organ was all wrong. Though JГіnsi always has the last say about the lyrics of course because he has to sing it. The lyrics in вЂњSvefn-g-englarвЂќ were all co-written, we used to do that quite a lot back then. I think it was probably Georg who came up with the three chord riff. We wrote that in a rehearsal space, in a basement there. ItвЂ™s a song that we never got bored of, everyone enjoyed playing it. And that idea came to be like being in the womb, like being a fetus or something like that. To me at least it was always like being underwater, like in a swimming pool, you dive to the bottom and you might just sit there and relax your body. Rather than being conceptual and say something important, it was more about what the song was telling us to do. There was more about describing the feel of a song, we used to work a lot like that back then. In this episode, Kjartan Sveinsson talks through the making of ГЃgГ¦tis byrjun on its 20th Anniversary.

Their breakthrough record, ГЃgГ¦tis byrjun, was released in 1999. In 1998, Kjartan Sveinsson joined the band on keyboards and guitar and provided the integral arrangements for strings, brass, choir and orchestra. They released their first album, Von, in 1997. Sigur RГіs was formed in ReykjavГk, Iceland in 1994 by JГіnsi Birgisson, Georg HГіlm and ГЃgГєst Gunnarsson. A podcast celebrating classic albums, as told by the people who made them. The Making of ГЃGAETIS BYRJUN by Sigur RГіs - featuring Kjartan Sveinsson

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