Here's the cover!



Samples are here;
http://www.onelittleshop....cts_id=524




Can't wait...



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Wow.

Just heard the samples and I can't wait to hear the entire songs!

She incorporated way more traditional Japanese music and vocals in the music than I could have hoped for! Good thing, as I have been crazy about Japanese and Chinese music for about ten years now...

HamsterHuey said:

Ever since seeing Da hong deng long gao gao gua and Ba wang bie ji .

For all of you's; those are Raise The Red Lantern and Farewell To My Concubine.

So is this still out next week?

HamsterHuey said:

paisleypark4 said:

Go to www.imdb.com and check them movies out... they are amazing!

GangstaFam said:

Seems nothing is holding it back.

What do you make of the samples?

HamsterHuey said:

To be honest, I can't do anything with those samples. If anything,
they make me dislike what I hear.

But it would have been the same with any other album. Samples have
a way of making you fall bam smack into the middle of a song givin
you a 20 second listen.

Most of Björk's music, especially, is so layered and "difficult",
that it takes some quiet time and some relaxing into it. Only when
I hear the entire song from start to finish can I truly say what
I think about it.

For example, I heard a 25 second sample from "Desired Constellation"
before the album was released and thought "uh oh, I'm going to hate
this album". Then I heard a clip of "Vokuro" and thought "WTFinF!!".

But once I got the album, they quickly became my fav songs on there!

IMO samples only work for repetitive pop-tunes like Britney's songs
or any other Max Martin-ish tunes where the entire song is built up
out of a 15 second loop that repeats to death.

Why am I ranting like this, you may ask. Well, my friend, it must be
obvious now that I have been od-ing on caffein again today

IstenSzek said:

Awwww.
I started at 6 am, then worked without ANY break until 2:30 pm, after which I and Barry (my friend & Colleague) cicled home. On my way there, i thought; let's do shopping, then continued down to the Aldi, where I succeeded in filling five bags for only 25 euro's, whcih I think ROCKS!

Then home, started ckearing out the kitchen, but then remembered all the diet food for my sick cat Dexter was gone, so I had to cicle through the rain and get some food.

Now I am all sniffly.

HamsterHuey said:

awww. a slight cold AGAIN! I've been cold free for only 2 days in the last
two weeks

shopping at ALDI still surprises me. it's becoming a sport to buy as much
as possible for as little money as possible lol. great, now you're made
me remember their potato chips. damnit now i'll have to go get some after
dinner



but back to Bjorks new album before we jack your own thread hehe.

Björk's album makes me think of all the languages people speak at the Aldi.

Where I got;
Toilet paper ( a dozen 'rollen' for just 1 euro 'sumthing'.
Three one and a 1/2 litesr juice
Three immense buckets of yoghurt
A 'worst'
A kilo banana's
A bag of potatoes
A small bag of 'boontjes'
Four bags of crisps
Two packages of sauzijsebroodjes (warming one up as we speak)
Butter
Coctail 'nootjes'
and way more stuff I forgot.

we've turned a Björk thread into a grocery list

I'm sure she'd be proud of that! I've been a

bit too lazy to go for the crisps so I just sat

down with a box of koekjes again hehe.

HamsterHuey said:

I refuse to listen to samples. Hearing something on my computer for the first time spoils the experience for me. Especially with an artist as important to me as Bjork. Now if it's a case of something being released in the UK before the US like the latest New Order, I'll download it. But samples are cheating.

IstenSzek said:

EAT EAT! EAT THE MENU!!!

And does anyone know how I can find out when and where this movie will be playing near me?

GangstaFam said:

Trust me that movie is coming nowhere near me most likely not even to Atlanta

AnckSuNamun said:

You think we'll have to wait for the DVD?

Here's her most recent interview about it.

Björk on the wild side
(Filed: 21/07/2005)

Björk's latest album, a film-track collaboration with her partner Matthew Barney, is the strangest she has ever made. She talks to Jonathan Wingate about art and pop

"I'm a little bit hung-over today, but I'd say it's only a five-bar hangover, so I'm not feeling too bad," mumbles Björk with a guilty grin as she grabs a bottle of water and slumps on to the deep sofa in the Soho Hotel.


Björk: 'my record company thought that Debut wouldn't sell. I said: I don't care'

We are here to talk about her boyfriend Matthew Barney's new art-house film, Drawing Restraint 9, although Björk's head feels a little too fuzzy to wax lyrical at this time in the morning.

"Trying to even start to explain the film is kind of challenging," she giggles, "but with my little alcoholpickled brain, it's really tough. I guess that's the point with the way Matthew sets it up, because there is no story. You just have to sit there and enjoy it, a bit like nature. The film has a narrative, but a really abstract one. It's not your average Hollywood movie, let's put it that way."

The film represents the first collaboration between Björk and Barney, two of the most innovative characters in music and art. Björk makes a brief on-screen appearance alongside Barney, as well as providing the soundtrack, which is undoubtedly the most leftfield music she has ever released. If you thought last year's a cappella album, Medúlla, was weird, Drawing Restraint 9 ups the kook factor to another level.

"After doing the research with all the vocals on Medúlla, I was very curious to take that further to a place that was not narrative. Then, when Matthew explained that the film happens on the ocean," she says, pinching her nose and holding her breath, "I was curious to make vocal patterns that were sort of oceanic. My music is very much about structure, whereas Matthew is much more abstract. I have to have a map and a compass to see the . nal point before I start the journey, and then I can meet 10 lions or whatever."

A couple of years after she first burst into earshot as a solo artist in 1993 with her Debut album, an astonishing box of tricks that captured the zeitgeist and made Björk one of the most famous faces in the world, she seemed to have become a star almost by accident.

"Yeah, I suppose I did feel like I was in the wrong job," says Björk. "You know when you're in the gang at the back of the class, and you're wearing black clothes, and suddenly you're being treated like the cheerleader? And it's like: wait a minute. I'm not the one with the long blonde hair and the big boobs. You got it wrong. But I have to say, just to try it on for a few years was a laugh."

At the end of the 1990s, after a series of high-profile relationships seemingly played out in the gossip pages, Björk quit the constant glare of London's spotlight for the relative anonymity of New York to retrieve some semblance of a private life. Since then, she has guarded her privacy so fiercely that her collaboration with Barney comes as something of a surprise.

"I guess we never would have done this when we started going out, but now, five years into it, it's really natural and effortless," Björk beams. "It's not such a big deal, because we've already got the foundation, and nobody can mess with it. I knew we'd planted a lot of seeds over the last five years, and it felt like the right harvest time."


Barney is best known for The Cremaster Cycle, a surreal sequence of five films shot over 10 years which became the subject of a recent Guggenheim retrospective. Matthew Barney may be the name on every hip lip on the Big Apple's avant-garde art scene, but Björk's involvement is sure to bring Drawing Restraint 9 to the attention of a whole new audience outside the art world.

"Our working relationship is hard to explain," she says. "I guess what I like about Matthew is that he's very down to earth. Being an artist is a very functional kind of job. He would say: 'Aggressive ship', and I'd go and write an aggressive ship track. I'm translating his ideas into sound. He just gives me hints. Because we've known each other for a while now, the majority of it happened without us having to talk."

Björk's background in Reykjavik's punk and DIY art scene has stood her in good stead for her latest challenge, and she sees no reason to differentiate between highbrow and lowbrow.

"I've done lots of projects in Iceland that people abroad don't know about, so doing this project didn't feel so new to me. Being this 'singer-songwriter' is only part of me. It's all music at the end of the day. Iceland is so isolated that there's no such thing as high and low art. You have the guy who plays cello in the symphony orchestra, his brother is in a heavy metal band, and together they go to their niece's art opening. It's all very working class, because there's no hierarchy there. I'm probably a good example of it. To do a disco song one day and then do Matthew's project the next day is no big deal for me.

"Right now there is a big wave in visual art going on in Iceland," she continues. "I'm working with an artist called Gabriella Fridriksdottir. She has her own sort of universe happening, which I personally always find quite appealing," laughs Björk.

"She's exploring the emotional spectrum in a very conscious way, and there are a lot of similarities in the way we work."

As Björk set out on her sometimes strange but always compelling career path, she took her music to places nobody had ever even dreamt of before. Albums such as Post, Homogenic and Vespertine became increasingly experimental, yet the media remained interested, and the public carried on buying Björk's music. Her adventures in recording have never been more daring or modernistic, yet Björk clearly still thinks her music is an equal mix pop and art.

"People think that I'm too eccentric, so it's never going to work. I've always loved pop and leftfield music. My record company thought that Debut wasn't going to sell. I said: I don't care. I really have to do this or I'll go insane. You've just got to do what you do. I came from a punk background, so there was no way that I was ever going to compromise with my music. I have this utopian view that the common person – like your gran, or the guy who works in the sandwich shop – actually wants an adventure, to hear something they've never heard before. I might seem leftfield, but I'm really not trying to be weird, you know."


'Drawing Restraint 9' is out on One Little Indian records on Monday.

GangstaFam said:

most likely. South Carolina's not good enough for Bjork hehe

AnckSuNamun said:

Not fair. I'm hoping it comes to Royal Oak or Ann Arbor. That's probably the only way I'll see it in the theater.

GangstaFam said:

Maybe it will be in Toronto during the Tori Fest??? Now that would be a quandry wouldn't it?????

MoonSongs said:

We'd just have to go to both. A matinee and an evening concert.

GangstaFam said:

You MIX artists?



Doesn't that compromise, ermmm, something?


Hehehe

And thanks for the long interview thingie. Love it!

HamsterHuey said:

Well, if it's the only chance I'll have to see this movie while it's playing in theaters, I might have to.

And ever since I got my iPod and have watched your playlist threads, I've been exploring random!

GangstaFam said:

Oh my. How.... adventurous! I like it!

GangstaFam said:

I was thinking more of the trio of tickets you have for the weekend

MoonSongs said:

Can't wait! Front 10 rows for all 3 shows!

HamsterHuey said:

looks like an Ans Markus-painting.....( dunno what the fuck this thread is about.....being unfocussed.....again!)

abierman said:

Unnecesary swear words.
This thread is about Björk and grocery shopping.
There is focus to my posts, you're just too think to grasp the underlying motives, but that is okay.
I still like you. In certain ways.
Btw; you suck.
Cookie?

HamsterHuey said:

I said I was unfocussed, not you.....sorry you didn't get that.....still, that pic looks like an Ans Markus-painting....Bjork or no Bjork!



I know an oxymoron when I see one.....I know you like me, you have no reason not to, no explaination needed.... And yes I suck, in my own comforting way!

I'll have a cookie.....call me!


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