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Iður til Fóta

Iður til Fóta
Þeyr (Iður til Fóta).jpg
EP by Þeyr
Released 1981
Recorded 13:46
Genre New wave
Length ??:??
Label Eskvímó
Cat. No.: ESQ 1
Producer Þeyr and Tony Cook
Þeyr chronology
Life Transmission
(1981)Life Transmission1981
Iður til Fóta
(1981)
Mjötviður Mær
(1981)Mjötviður Mær1981

Iður til Fóta was a single released in 1981 by the Icelandic group Þeyr through Eskvímó and it was edited in 10" format.
The title translates as "Moving Your Feet" but in Icelandic also forms a pun which can equally translate as "Guts at Your Feet".

This record was never reissued since the masters are believed to be lost. However, in 2001 some of its recordings appeared in Mjötviður til Fóta, a CD to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the creation of Þeyr. The title of this CD also combined the name of Mjötviður Mær (1981), the other album included.

The front cover, which was designed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, depicts a dancer being hypnoptized by a man who points at her and shows a geometric shape on her head. This illustration was intended to represent the hypnotizing effect of Þeyr's music towards the audience.

The back cover depicts a German inscription, here translated:
The fall of Asgard on Atlantis.
The Ragnarök of the Edda and "the thousand-year empire of God on Earth" according to Daniel, Ezekiel and John's Book of Revelation.

This text is followed by two quotations from the Bible written in Latin:
Væ væ væ habitantibus in terra. Apocalypsis VIII

Cuncta in quibus spiraculum vitæ est mortua sunt. Genesis VII


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