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debut album, "id", out now!

About Me

DEBUT ALBUM "ID" OUT NOW!
check out biggimusic.com


"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.

new video for perfect sunday, by freymar

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/12/2005
Band Website: biggimusic.com
Band Members: 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.
Sounds Like: biggi
Record Label: 12 tónar (scandinavia), electric tones (uk)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new maus song, online on myspace!

ok, just a quick note to let you know that the new maus song Cover My Eyes is now up on our profile here on MySpace. go to myspace.com/mausiceland and have a listen.This is a song we recorded in septe...
Posted by biggi on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:15:00 PST

new maus song uncovered

if you are able to tune into Rás 2, either online, or on FM90,1 in Iceland, you should check out the new maus song wich will be aired for the first time @ 14.15 on monday... that..s Rás2, Poppland @ 1...
Posted by biggi on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:09:00 PST

new songs born

hey, its been awhile... as i don..t blog about things not related to my music, there really hasn..t been a lot to blog about. For the past months i..ve sort of been doing anything but music related st...
Posted by biggi on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:40:00 PST

8 out of 10 in Ox fanzine

hey, just got some great news. apparantly ID got 8 out of 10 points in a german magazine called Ox Fanzine. i don't have the actual article yet, but i will post it as soon as its in.today, i've been d...
Posted by biggi on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:59:00 PST

uploaded more songs, album out in germany

apparantly you can now upload 6 songs on myspace! that´s great. so, i´ve added 2 more songs from my album id. they are: planes over skyscrapers and drug of choice. and my album is out in germany tomor...
Posted by biggi on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:19:00 PST

long e.p. release next spring

hey everyone. been a while. been lazy this summer. haven't done anything since recording with the bigital orchestra in may. since moving back to reykjavik, i've been settling slowly into life here, an...
Posted by biggi on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:06:00 PST

perfect sunday video online!

hey everyone. just posted a video for my song perfect sunday online. its directed by freymar with art direction from natasa. the dancers are from laban in london, and the video was shot in a small cel...
Posted by biggi on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

new pics on biggimusic.com

hey everyone, the new video for perfect sunday by freymar þorbergsson will be ready after the weekend. until then, we leave you with a small teaser, a picture gallery from the video shoot, and off the...
Posted by biggi on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST

biggimusic.com opens!

hey everyone. just opened my own webpage, biggimusic.com, design by the talented peter bickel. go check it out!the perfect sunday video is almost finished, i'll post it up as soon as its ready!iceland...
Posted by biggi on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:14:00 PST

leaving london

here i am, in my house packing all my stuff. i'll send it via ship to iceland tomorrow. then i wait for the jet plane to take me home.it's been more than 2 and a half amazing years in london, but i gu...
Posted by biggi on Mon, 21 May 2007 07:29:00 PST