from www.bjork.com:

Details of the Drawing Restraint 9, are emerging. We can reveal:

• Drawing Restraint 9, by Matthew Barney to be premiered in Kanazawa, Japan on July 1st.

• Drawing Restraint 9, a soundtrack by Björk, will be released in late July.

• Björk has written a suite of haunting music for the sho, one of the oldest instruments in Japanese culture with seventeen reeds and fifteen distinct pipes. It is performed by Mayumi Miayata, one of the world’s foremost sho players. Björk also worked with scholars of the Noh theatre to produce new musical settings, incorporating the low, growling vocal techniques of traditional Japanese court entertainment.

• As a counterpoint to the ancient, Björk’s collaborations with her close circle of electronic producers continues – Mark Bell of LFO, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Akira Rabelais and Leila.

• Tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1. giftwrapping
2. petrolatum
3. pearl
4. bath
5. hunter vessel
6. shimenawa
7. storm
8. holographic entrypoint
9. ambergris march
10. field inversion
11. antarctic return


more to follow.

And an image from the project...

GangstaFam said:

SO exciting ~ what a perfect addition to a wonderful summer. This sounds like a complex and intriguing project. It appears that Bjork has embraced the challenge in her wonderous and creative style. I absolutely cannot wait! Thank you for the call and the post Nathan!!!! Now let's hope we don't have a conflict with the Dead Can Dance show in Chicago. I wonder whether she and her husband will present a unique musical/art showing? David Sylvian has done this with great success. Whatever ~where ever ~ I am THERE!

bratchildsfriend said:

Me too. She's one of a very small number of artists that I'd travel just about anywhere to see.

bjork doing a matthew barney soundtrack. i think i have to change my pannies.

I hope it's better than Medulla, as much I loved it and blew me away when I heard it, I never get the urge to play it. hopefully this album is musical comeback. p.s I just heard Roisin Murphy's album "RUBY BLUE" and seems like she's picking up where Bjork left off

Awesome!

twink69 said:

I have a feeling this one's gonna even less accessible than Medulla.

GangstaFam said:

it does sound very interesting though. and it's great that it will be
released so soon. i hate hearing about these kind of projects and have
to wait more than 8 months before they are released.

not sure i'm thrilled about this. but i'm sure it'll be very good in its own way whether it's in a way that makes me want to listen to it will have to be determined. but i look forward to hearing it

GrayKing said:

Why not? Too challenging? Too obscure?

Anxiety said:

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(just prepin' myself just in case this is some fart noises with strings shit and no vocals...)

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Xavier23 said:

that sure is a lot of effort to go to for someone you think sucks. but thanks for the input.

sosgemini said:

Man, don't be scurrred...

I'm equally if not more excited about a new Matthew Barney work. Is it a film, or what? I saw the entire Cremaster Cycle and am a fan of that wierd stuff.

heartbeatocean said:

i'm excited to see a new matthew barney project, too. i was lucky enough to see the retrospective at the guggenheim a couple years back, and i drooled over all five cremaster installments when the films came to chicago. i think this collaboration with bjork is gonna be at the very least VERY interesting.

Anxiety said:

People will love it or hate it.

heartbeatocean said:

heartbeatocean said:

I think people will look back at this stage of Bjork's career as akin to Bowie's Berlin era - difficult, uncompromising, and just plain insane. I'm sure she'll lose some fans along the way, but that won't matter once she reigns it in again. Let's just hope she doesn't go all "Let's Dance" on us after she gets this weirdness out of her system. I'll take weird over predictable any day.
[Edited 6/8/05 11:29am]

GangstaFam said:

haha nice parallel.

GangstaFam said:

so this is her Parade era..

sosgemini said:

Would that make 'Medulla' her 'Around The World In A Day'?

sextonseven said:

Maybe even her Black Album. Extreme!

GangstaFam said:

i'm sure it will be very interesting, and quite impressive. but, like Medulla, perhaps not something that I ever have a desire to listen to. know what i mean? not a put-down of the work, just not necessarily something i have much interest in.


we'll see. nice to see that instruments aren't as over as we were led to believe, though

GrayKing said:

This year, voices are totally over.

I listen to "Medulla" regularly and I love it. I still think that
"Vespertine" is her most beautiful, but "Medulla" is a very
good, be it weird, album.

IstenSzek said:

Same here. It'll be hard for her to top "Vespertine" in my book. But it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility.