Björk

[BerlinRocks]

I just read she is planning another album within a year!!
So excited!!

where did you read this???

 

[brokenenglish]

^ I read it on ohnotheydidn't... ...
I don't recall the original source though.

 

[style_savy]

Bjork performs at the Austin City Limits music festival in Austin, Texas, September 14
celebutopia

 

[SomethingElse]

There are quite a few mentions of a new album in the works appearing on the web, but it might be THIS year.

Bjork may just be releasing a second album this year. On the heels of May's "Volta," the Icelandic singer posted a note on her Web site confirming that she recorded "a special live session album" with her current touring band "a few weeks ago" at Olympic Studios in London.

A Bjork spokesperson says "we don't really have more details at this point," but all indications are the album will be out before the end of the year.

Bjork tells Billboard.com that the group -- which includes LFO electronics wizard Mark Bell and Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale, as well as a 10-piece, all-female brass section from Iceland -- did some session-style recording in April in California. "Already we have come a long way," she says. "I still feel we have potential to grow even more."

Bjork says that large band, which plays tomorrow (Sept. 8) at the Virgin Festival in Toronto, gives her a tremendous amount of flexibility. "I started with arranging my old stuff to brass," she explains, "seeing what of it would work. A lot of the songs that were previously done with strings turned out even better with brass. Having a keyboardist means I can do songs with harpsichord, clavichord, celeste and voice only -- the more lyrical side of my songs.

"But having two guys on electronics and one drummer means that I can go as macho as it is possible for me (and) do the hooligan songs," she continues. "The brass helps out, with that obviously being quite 'butch,' but also makes it easy for me to do musically complex numbers. So overall the importance is on dynamism -- really, really quiet songs and really, really loud ones."

Bjork has dates booked into December for what she calls "the longest tour I have done" -- including a stop at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas, Madison Square Garden in New York City and the TIM Festival in Brazil. She says she plans to be on the road a total of 18 months, which will take her deep into 2008.

She is going to have the time of her life in Brazil!

billboard.com published 7 September 2007

 

[Girl Afraid]

OMG I just bought my ticket to see her in november

 

[Ampop]

OMG I just bought my ticket to see her in november

No way that is amazing! Lucky you! mmmm where is the concert? Tell tell!

 

[Girl Afraid]

No way that is amazing! Lucky you! mmmm where is the concert? Tell tell!

November 10, in Chile

 

[Lea]

I'm gonna see her in December , can't wait!

 

[Mirik]

Arbat Prestige November 2006 scanned by me

 

[sarahslug]

I bet she's incredible live, you lucky lucky people.

 

[Girl Afraid]

seeing Her Tonight!!

 

[Mirik]

For Mixte by Jean Paul Goude foto_decadent comm @ lj

 

[Lea]

thanks for the photos, Mirik!

I went to the LA concert, it was amazing
these are my pics taken from cellphone

 

[strawberry daiquiri]

I love the new video for Declare Independence

declare independence

I'm continuously in awe of her talent for creating self-contained worlds, that I feel appealed to me even before I've seen them.

 

[versustito]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/1210176018_b0d19301d4_o.gif

Santiago of Chile Nov 10 2007

 

[versustito]

http://www.lastfm.es/event/323762

From Chile Nov 2007

 

[cheiby11]

she is stunning!

 

[More dancing]

i know, she's so cute. like a little cupcake aha.
i saw her in september at msg and it was truely amazing. i love bjork

 

[BerlinRocks]

Stereogum Presents...

ENJOYED: A Tribute To Björk's Post

On Monday 3/31, Stereogum releases Enjoyed, our song-by-song tribute to Björk's Post. (Listen to last year's Radiohead tribute here, and R.E.M. tribute here.) When we asked Björk about about the 1995 album she told us:

"I was very aware of it at the time that I needed to be musically promiscuous and have almost every song [a] different mood/style, and so on. The picture on the cover is me on Piccadilly Circus too excited, too many things, Bright Lights Big City kinda thing, and me eager to consume. So my musical heart was scattered at the time and I wanted the album to show that."​

Perfect material for a compilation by 11 different artists, no? Log on Monday to download the full album for free in MP3 format, read our new interview with Björk, and check out liner notes and videos from the contributing artists. Here's the album cover (designed by Scott Hansen), tracklist, and an early listen to Dirty Projectors' "Hyperballad." Enjoy.



01. Liars - "Army Of Me"
02. Dirty Projectors - "Hyper Ballad"
03. High Places - "The Modern Things"
04. Bell - "It’s Oh So Quiet"
05. Pattern Is Movement - "Enjoy"
06. Evangelicals - "You’ve Been Flirting Again"
07. Xiu Xiu - "Isobel"
08. Final Fantasy & Ed Droste - "Possibly Maybe"
09. White Hinterland - "I Miss You"
10. El Guincho - "Cover Me"
11. Atlas Sound - "Headphones"

you need to suscribe to get the free download...
but i think you receive everyday a new track...
i don't really understand how it works....
the first track i receive is very funny....

 

[Diorette]

^ Merci.