Iceland's Jon Thor Birgisson (the ethereal-voiced lead singer and frontman of Sigur Rós) and his boyfriend Alex Somers (a member of the band Parachutes and the designer of much of the graphic contact for Sigur Rós' albums) create gently atmospheric work in a variety of media, encompassing ambient and instrumental music, visual art, and video work. The pair began collaborating in 2003, taking the name Riceboy Sleeps as a catch-all moniker for their work together -- the phrase was the title of a song Birgisson wrote when he first met Somers, who at the time was destitute, subsisting mainly on rice, and spending much of his time sleeping. At least initially, they approached their creations primarily as a private undertaking intended for their own pleasure and fulfillment, exploring a shared aesthetic of natural beauty and simplicity focused around organic, hand-made, and found materials, distressed and textured by age and wear.
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