Sigur Ros. I love this band. I’m not really one for ‘band’ music, nor even pop/rock generally, but this Icelandic folk/rock quartet certainly know how to make a four-piece sound, well, ‘interesting’.

Know my propensity for obscure, found sound music, ambient noodling, etc, these guys provide it in spades, all from pure natural organic sources. So I was really chuffed to have been given the 2-disc standard edition of ‘Heima’.

Heima means Home in Icelandic, and is an interesting variation on a music DVD. Firstly, although this is about a series of free concerts at the end of a world tour, the primary film is a documentary about how it came about, with clips of performances from the shows. The second disc shows the performances in more detail.

Having only really watched the film Heima, I can’t fully comment on this. However, Heima as a documentary is beautifully shot, with fantastic sound, an excellent structure charting Sigur Ros’ free concerts in Iceland, how they felt, what it meant to both them as a band and the people they played for. One outstanding moment is when they revisit a disused fishing factory, where a lot of film footage was shown of it’s heyday. The fact that so many people travelled to this remote, abandoned building, and the comment, ‘It was good to return life to this place, if only for one night’ makes it seem so poignant.

Sigur Ros are not a performance band. In fact they are the complete opposite. This makes them suited to a variety of venues, such as the aforementioned factory, a tea room, at a reservoir protest, a schoolroom, and many more, leading up to the more traditional stages commonly associated with events like Glastonbury.

It’s not often that music moves me, but this music, combined with the scenes of God’s natural beauty, moved me to tears. This is a superb DVD, and I’m slightly gutted yet relieved that I didn’t get the special edition, although it might be worth adding to the Sigur Ros collection I have. Now, anyone got a spare copy of Von they want to sell off?