In 2002 Egill Sæbjörnsson released his first album on the Reykjavik-based label Bad Taste (Sugarcubes, Björk, Sigur-Ros, Mum), which was released on the London-based label Some Bizarre (Soft Cell, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mark Almond) a year later.

The album entitled “Tonk” of the Lawn was successful both in England and in Iceland. The accompanying videos that Egill Sæbjörnsson designed and produced himself, ran on MTV and Viva. Virgin Records (now EMI) offered Egill a collaboration, which he renounced after a few recording sessions. He then began to develop his music increasingly in the direction of art production. In 2002, for instance, he created an installation on stage, where he delivered a one-man performance with a singing bush (first performed in the Lisa Lounge, Berlin, during the festival Stardust Deluxe).

At the end of 2002 he released his third album, “Reproduced and Deper”, as 50 handmade copies available at only three selected music shops in Reykjavik. His first album,” The International Rock n’Roll Summer of Egill Sæbjörnsson” (1999), was released and sold the same way. In the exhibition “Berlin North” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Egill was invited to collaborate with other artists and create a piece, that would use sound, music, video and stage design. This piece summarised his experiments in music and art and brought it forth into the realm of theatre.