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Ghostigital
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We are Ghostigital, an experimental/electronic band from Iceland.
Members are Curver and Einar Örn.
That is us. We have 2 albums out.
Einar Örn -- Vocals
Curver -- Electronics, Tape Delays, Gadgets

It seems that when Einar Örn (former SUGARCUBES and K.U.K.L. front man) enlists another artist to work with him, it's like collaborating with the Cubists, or the Dadaists in musical form. His partner in this case, with the movement named Ghostigital, is Curver. An Icelandic multi-instrumentalist, Curver's background is as eclectic as the music he dabbles in: a producer, artist, a remixer (Sigur Ros) , a music teacher. Ghostigital's Les Demoiselles de Avignon is named In Cod We Trust.
Welcome! You're really in for a fantastic treat.

For those new to the sonic world of Ghostigital, you should know that there doesn't seem to be any floor plan to the music, even though there is architecture. It's best you just relax, release preconception, don't think or analyze too much. Here's an idea: let us do the analyzing so the thoughts don't get in the way of your listening experience. Know the music will come to you the way it wants to; you are not in control.

Often it seems that neither is Einar. His vocal tone evokes the everyday man hung on an everyday line and pushed to extremes, but extremes that for the moment are livable and sometimes amusing. His rap does not spew harsh violence but the cool cosmically comic fright-journalism of breakfast in workaday hell.

Unmistakably Icelandic, their subjects could have multiple national origins -- exchange codfish for... well, anything and you get the meaning. In 1940s America, "fish" was slang for the dollar and there, the joke of the album is easily apparent. Whether Einar is commenting on what he sees while standing in line at the grocery store, men who are fixated on fish or seeing the Northern Lights through a headache, his songs are still stories of relationships with average living, a lifestyle that merges the mundane with the sublime.

While the genre-mashing In Cod We Trust pulls the aesthetic rug out from under a listener's expectations, one should not fear that they are lost in a pop music sea. Ghostigital fashions an aural forest of industrial, Bel Canto, Jazz, Rap, '80's New Wave, and Electronic music-- just not necessarily in that order or only at one time.

For this album they recruited: Ipecac Recordings label mates Mugison and Dälek in the USA, as well as Mark E. Smith, Sensational, KatieJane Garside, Steve Beresford, Ása Júníusdóttir and Hrafn Ásgeirsson including Einar's own son Kaktus playing trumpet.

City: Reykjavik
Hometown: Reykjavik
Country: Iceland
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Hovering Hoover Skates by Ghostigital
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video by the weird girls
8 months ago 330 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - Northern Lights
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Song from our album IN COD WE TRUST from 2006. Featuring SENSATIONAL. Video by A...
2 years ago 6,528 views ghostigitals
Aria
7:40
[TRANSLATED] Aria
[TRANSLATED] Aria
Aria is a song by Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson. The song is on Ásgerður Júníusdóttir...
2 years ago 3,970 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - The Heart
3:02
Live video done while we were touring with the Melvins in the autumn of 2006, well...
2 years ago 2,299 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - Black Sand
3:38
video shot at Snæfell. Concert done in aid of Icelandic nature. http://this.is/na...
2 years ago 3,840 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - Good Evening
5:22
This video was made using the camera in mobile phones. We did it in March 2005, An...
2 years ago 416 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - Monday
3:36
[TRANSLATED] Ghostigital - Monday
[TRANSLATED] Ghostigital - Monday
Taken off Ghostigital 1st album. www.ghostigital.com
2 years ago 1,046 views ghostigitals
Ghostigital - Not Clean
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Not Clean is taken from Ghostigital's IN COD WE TRUST which was released in 2006. ...
2 years ago 4,490 views ghostigitals
Mess Up
3:22
[TRANSLATED] Mess Up
[TRANSLATED] Mess Up
Video from Ghostigital first album
2 years ago 704 views ghostigitals
Capybara - Ástin
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[TRANSLATED] Capybara - Ástin
[TRANSLATED] Capybara - Ástin
Band: Capybara (Type of a animal) Song: Ástin (Love)
2 years ago 2,243 views Studio112iceland
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Channel Comments (8)
vinkonamin (6 days ago)
More videos please!
ExMachine (1 year ago)
It is nice. NICE.
smegghiggins (1 year ago)
i saw you guys on that screaming masterpiece movie- had to hear more... i'm glad i found some of your stuff on youtube- fucking excellent.
klakkin (1 year ago)
Happy Halloween!!...hope you are having the scariest halloweenies...
sugarbunni (1 year ago)
Starring MEEEEE....

SUGARBUNNI :)
KNOBHEAD10 (2 years ago)
loved the choon you done with damonif you've got a good copy of the live vid pop it up!

lovin the music lads
AndyYoungrulz (2 years ago)
I DREAMMM OF SLEEP, you spit on me man, i was in the front row in providence rhode island, and you spit all over me. ahhahahahha
lapdancer6969jp (2 years ago)
Awesome video work and, of course, beautiful, beautiful music. I couldn't get "Good Morning" out of my head, yesterday. Good luck with all of your US shows and I hope that Japan is lucky enough to see you perform.