In 2006 having toured the world over in support of their Takk album, Sigur Returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts in Iceland. Heima is a unique record of that tour filmed in over 15 locations across the island, taking in the biggest and smallest shows of their career. On their way they went to ghost towns, outsider art shrines, national parks, small community halls and the absolu e middle-of-nowhere-ness of the highland wilderness, as well as playing the largest gig of their career (and in Icelandic history) at their homecoming Reykjavik show. 'heima' (icelandic for "at home" or "homeland"), truly, shows Sigur Rós as never before - whereas seeing the group live is normally a large-scale and sometimes overwhelming experience, making full use of lights and mesmeric visuals, 'heima' was always intended to reveal more of what was actually going on on stage.
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