Sólstafir - Lágnætti (Official Music Video)
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From filmmakers Bowen Staines and Gunnar B. Guðbjörnsson
(Sólstafir - Fjara, The Vintage Caravan - Expand Your Mind, Skálmöld - Gleipnir,
Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs and “Where’s The Snow?!" Music documentary),
comes a brand new music video for Iceland’s masters of psychedelic metal, Sólstafir.
"Lágnætti", from Sólstafir’s critically acclaimed new album, ÓTTA.
-OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE-
The conceptualization for the video began in May of 2014 and started production in late July.
The entire nine and a half-minute video was shot over the course of two twenty-hour days in Iceland’s West Fjörds, with a production crew of less than five people.
Although the core of ‘Lágnætti’ was shot on the Canon 60D and 550D,
a wide variety of cameras were used, including: the Canon 5D, GoPro Hero3s, a Krasnogorsk K-3 16mm, and an even an Apple iPhone 5 belive it or not.
The film was then flown across the Atlantic to Toronto, Ontario, where Bowen edited it over the next two months.
Care was taken to preserve the feeling of the song and lyrics, as well as the atmosphere of the location we chose to shoot: a fjord, Kollafjörður, about 20 minutes from Hólmavík.
With a history of several rather “post-production heavy” music videos under our belt up to this point,
We thought it very important to make this new video free of any special effects or post-production hoodwinks - relying instead on the location to supply its own special effects.
Indeed, the fjord supplied her own special effects... in the form of these beautiful, white seeds that constantly fluttered through our set, two perfect, sunny days for the duration of the production,
and last but not least, the Arctic Tern.
A large portion of the video was shot bordering the largest Arctic Tern nesting ground in the area - and anyone who’s spent time around these birds knows how aggressive, comically bad-tempered, and noisy they can be.
The words “production halting” also come to mind, as nearly every take started and ended with one angry tern after another swooping into frame, hell-bent on snatching eyebrows off someone’s face. They were also comically un-fond of our camera drone, constantly dive-bombing the propellers,
and forcing us to pull out of countless shots early for fear of seeing half a dozen injured animals,
as well as the investment of our dear friend Arnar at Dronefly.is go crashing into the ocean.
In the end, these birds played a much larger part in the video than we had intended, and definitely for the good. In our opinion, the birds are an unintentional, but vividly endearing character - an unplanned element that truly brings Kollafjörður to life.
Another somewhat unintentional character in ‘Lágnætti’, is this late-50’s model, grumpy (yet sensitive), bright red DIY project, fondly known only as “The Russian”.
Cobbled together over the years with various parts from all over the globe, this unique vehicle played a large role in the video, as well as lightening the mood on set whenever things started getting stressful. “The Russian” topped out at about 20kmh, and you had to manually hand-pump the gas from a metal can in the trunk, up a fuel line running over the top of the back seat. Never a dull character, “The Russian” exists to remind us all:
“HAMINGJAN FELST EKKI Í NÝJUM BÍL”, or “HAPPINESS IS NOT A NEW CAR”.
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-SÓLSTAFIR OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE-
It is with great pride and excitement that we present to you the new video for our song 'Lágnætti'. The video was directed by the same directing team of Bowen Staines and Gunnar B. "Gussi" Guðbjörnsson, who brought you the amazing ‘Fjara’ video 3 years ago, so the standard was already set sky high. But it is our belief that we have outdone ourselves, with the help of the good people from Hólmavík and Kollafjörður in the West Fjords of Iceland.
Enjoy!
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Fucking hell, that was pretty fucking immense, wasn't it? What a breath of fresh air.
@HelvitisGussi
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks man
@AndrewJShirley
8 жыл бұрын
A friend just linked me to this video, will be hitting Spotify and such... After Game Of Thrones 😉
Althought I don't understand anything, I can feel its power. Greetings and respect from Germany.
so emotional, music in which i can feel soul (my soul?). Thank you for visiting Tallinn.
Ich kann es nicht in Worte fassen...
I love the video and I have already watched it a bunch of times. It's a magical song as well. Really appreciate the video description - it's a nice little "behind the scenes". Quite interesting! :)
the best thing that ever got to know my ears, I hear the lp almost every day I love your music and your island Iceland
Underbar i all kreativ kontrastrikedom, vacker stark och det där djupa norrnordiska inre dunket av Liv ,) Me like it
beautyfull Vid, fantastic music!
Beautiful.
I really want to watch this video at 60fps like Fjara.
Beautiful country, nice song nd great band
Great!!
My new favorite song c: 😭💖
Забойнейший сюжет ржал от души! Ну и музло шикарное! its fully awersome!
Hail wotan.. Awsome song
I really want to chill in a bathtub in the middle of Icelandic nature. Does some tourism company provide this?
@Flugkaninchen
8 жыл бұрын
+kaguth I think you can take "chill" literally there. The water came from a glacier. ;)
Nice truck comrade
WOW
The music was great and I'm falling more and more in love with this band, but the shots in this video were fucking amazing. Anyone able to guess the camera model and techniques used here?
@papyrusghost9976
8 жыл бұрын
It says in the description: "Although the core of ‘Lágnætti’ was shot on the Canon 60D and 550D, a wide variety of cameras were used, including: the Canon 5D, GoPro Hero3s, a Krasnogorsk K-3 16mm, and an even an Apple iPhone 5 belive it or not." I agree, the cinematography here is fucking phenomenal, can't believe that most of it was apparently shot with a DSLR...
I love the music and the video , the nature is amazing !!!! But Im curious ... What's the meaning of the red car ? With comunist symbol?
@HelvitisGussi
9 жыл бұрын
There's litteraly no meaning of it... The video was shot close to Hólmavík in Iceland, we did two 20hour days to get all the shooting done and the car was just something that someone had in the town, we asked if we could borrow it and he said no problem. We just thought it looked cool.
@bogdankoldunenko8430
8 жыл бұрын
It did look cool and you accidentally made an allegory to the creation of soviet union))) Great video by the way, this band has best visuals of all I have thus far seen in metal.
Lovely, everything is lovely, but, can i ask anybody to translate what Lágnætti means?
@HelvitisGussi
9 жыл бұрын
Lágnætti is basicly just "Midnight". The word "Lágnætti" translates to "Low" (for Lág) and "Night" (for Nótt or Nætti) The word is from the oldest way of telling time Icelanders have, Back then we split the day in to 8 units of "time" "Ótta" is 3am "Rismál" is 6am "Dagmál" is 9am "Miðdegi" or "Hádegi" is 12pm "Nón" is 3pm "Miðaftann" is 6pm "Náttmál" is 9pm "Lágnætti" is 12.pm
@IvanAmentisBratoev
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, the whole album is so much closer to understanding now... I don't know more than 4-5 words in Icelandic, but a friend of mine thought me some stuff about Swedish and Old Norse, so when I read Miðdegi, for the first time - correctly, I was shocked how familiar it sounds!
@abyad000
9 жыл бұрын
Gunnar Guðbjörnsson But Ótta means fear too, doesn't it?
@HelvitisGussi
9 жыл бұрын
Gilbert Botos The Icelandic word for Fear is "Ótti" or "Óttast" so it's very easy to mix those two up
@abyad000
9 жыл бұрын
Gunnar Guðbjörnsson Ohh... thank you! I think I'll start learning Icelandic. Sounds and looks so awesome.
Excellent song and video, but was my comment regarding my first impressions out of character? :(
yours music wery cool. From Ukraine...