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Page 1 of 3  On the 26th of August St. Petersburg touched a fine imponderable musical substance, woven by musicians of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros. The main band of the isle, lost somewhere in fogs between Europe and USA, appeared in the Cultural Centre of Lensovet. Sigur Ros’ coming to Russia is a sensation not only musical, but also a cultural one! Sigur Ros are the stars of the primary range – not from the cohort of the stale heroes of the past, invading the concert halls of Russia, but the paramount persons of the contemporary Europe music, the best live band, according to Tom York. And the happening they arranged on scene is hard to entitle by the trivial word “concert” – so much staginess, emotionality and power were whether put in or nonchalant and composedly shed. The vocalist Jonsi Thor Birgisson was forcefully tormenting the guitar with a bass-viol bow – what a barbarous act in the eyes of some more conservative musicians and what a godlike sound elicited from cords! A touching collective xylophone playing, performed by the all together participants of the band, standing in a rank in mysterious blue border-lights sounds like angels’ chants in USSR’s Cultural Center, not accustomed to such refined echo under the ceiling. The ancient harmonium that travels with Sigur Ros across Europe, revoices the piercing falsetto of Jonsi. And the drummer Orri, wearing an original crown, dubs in a such way, that an Islandic elvish geno seems to begin to march from under the stage in a second, tapping their little tabors. The final movement, when Jonsi breaks into splinters his bow after all, on the next passage of the song from the endless melancholy to the wild rapture, maddens the crowd. Well-nigh to catharsis, people rise and applause, being strewed by confetti, and many of them have tears in their eyes – so greatly Sigur Ros are able to make you sit, make your brain reel and bemuse your heart.
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