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Who sings a thousand years
Who sings a thousand years








who sings a thousand years

From then on, each album doubled as a nexus of deviation through which Björk exposed popular audiences to often-obscure fashion designers, filmmakers and, later, when she made her first app for 2011’s “Biophilia,” computer programmers. They talked about their hippie parents and the Russian folk tales they had watched as children, and he directed the fairy-tale video for “Human Behavior,” her first music video as a solo artist. She contacted its director, a young filmmaker named Michel Gondry. (You may have noticed that Björk, who has used a Tesla coil as an instrument, has all but ignored the electric guitar.) From then on, “mostly it was my songs and my vision, and I would decide what would be in which song and when.” Going forward, she would express her vision clearly to her collaborators, and choose them with great care.Īs she finished her first solo album, “Debut,” she saw a music video by a French band called Oui Oui on television. The move from the provincial to the global, from the charming mess of homegrown collaboration to the unknown possibilities of a career as a soloist in a newer genre of music, was also her declaration of independence from the macho vernacular of rock ’n’ roll.

who sings a thousand years

“It was really difficult for me to be that selfish,” she would later recall. She was a single mom with an interest in solitary endeavor, intrigued by what she’d seen in some nightclubs in Manchester. It was 1993, early in a new technological era. It’s only a two-and-a-half hour flight from Iceland to London, so that’s where she moved with her young son at the age of 27. In the late 1980s, as a singer in the postpunk band the Sugarcubes in Reykjavik, Björk began secreting albums by 808 State and Public Enemy, teaching herself about a musical lineage that ran from Kraftwerk to Detroit techno and on into England, to Kate Bush, Brian Eno and Warp Records. “It was more that I burnt myself on spending a lot of time doing music and then seeing visuals accompanying them that just didn’t fit that music at all.”ījörk, now 49, spent her teens and early 20s immersed in the collective do-it-yourself ethos of Iceland, where “if someone else wanted to put out a record we would just make the poster by hand.” She made a record of folk songs at 11, then found punk as a teenager, but she was, in pop music terms, a late bloomer when she diverged to what she describes as the “matriarch energy” of electronic beats - the effeminate, queer, culturally diverse heritage of underground dance music. “It wasn’t so much that I was really ambitious to do the best visuals in the universe,” she explained. It’s not that she isn’t proud of them, but she worries sometimes that the visual element of her work overshadows the music, her life’s obsession. She puts on a pot of coffee.ījörk has been feeling a little sensitive about her visual collaborations lately. She thinks she might have pulled a muscle from dancing. Björk’s current knitting project is a lilac mohair sweater. She finished mixing her newest album two days ago, followed by a party to which she invited the girls’ choir that sang on “Biophilia,” the brass band that played on “Volta” and her knitting group, which meets Wednesday nights in Reykjavik. Björk comes in from the snow with a lunch of bread, cheese, pastries, yogurt and chocolate. Later, one of her friends will tell me that she has been wearing neon yellow all year, a color she associates with healing and transformation. She waded through snow up the hill in white platform shoes, a dress and tights of fluorescent yellow and an ellipsoidal white puff coat. Listen to some of the best new recordings here.ījörk drove to the cabin in a Land Rover. Classical Music: 2021 was a year of reawakening for the art form.Jazz Albums: Even the big-statement albums this year had a feeling of intense closeness.Pop Albums: Recordings with big feelings and room for catharsis made the most powerful connections.

who sings a thousand years

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    Who sings a thousand years