“It’s so interesting to communicate on so many levels. “We were sending each other a thousand ideas - it was like playing games with someone,” Björk said. Meanwhile, for the bird calls she wanted, Björk chose species recorded in Arca’s home country, Venezuela. “He was mirroring back to me a side of me that I probably would have ignored,” Björk said. There are echoes of them in her new songs. And there’s an optimistic and a celebrational element in both of our music that we really like.”Īrca gently steered her toward his favorite lesser-known Björk tracks, both instrumentals: “Ambergris March,” from her score for “Drawing Restraint 9,” and “Batabid,” a B side from 2001. At first we were really surprised because the generational gap is pretty large between us, and then we figured out that philosophically, we share a lot of things.
“We felt like we could write 50 albums, because it was so fun. “What was different was that me and Alejandro were merging,” Björk said.
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While Björk’s many previous co-producers have been enlisted to help execute her ideas, “Utopia” is closer to a full partnership. von Trier for comment for this article received no response. “But that we were definitely not friends, that’s a fact.” Attempts to reach Mr. “That was not the case,” he told the newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. von Trier had told a Danish newspaper that he had not sexually harassed her. von Trier’s assistant told Rolling Stone, “Lars declines the accusations Björk has made, but doesn’t wish to comment any further.” The Guardian reported that Mr. On Monday night, they said yes, and then on Tuesday, I returned to work.”Īfter Björk’s Facebook posts, Mr. I could stand up as a musician and say, ‘I’m not returning back to work on Monday unless I get full control of my music.’ And that took one day. “After two months of just turning up for every single thing, and really just accepting all the harassment and just becoming part of the whole - just keeping on doing what I was told, basically - I had one weekend where I stood up. And they would keep telling me, ‘Oh, it belongs to us now, it’s not yours.’
“But I was turning up at dance rehearsals, and somebody else had been editing my music in a way that was totally musically wrong. “When I talked about this project with Lars, he always promised me I had full control of my music,” she said. “Imagine a future and be in it/feel this incredible nurture, soak it in,” she sings, then turns to tech advice. The album concludes with “Future Forever,” with shimmering chords and Björk’s voice floating above silences she invokes a benign matriarchy. “I started thinking about this album as a city in the clouds,” she said.
After playing through the album on her stereo, she conversed volubly about the music across her kitchen table, over cups of strong coffee. (She has since been to London, to her home in Iceland, and on tour to Moscow, Buenos Aires and Tbilisi, juggling concerts with her band, gigs as a disc jockey and curating Björk Digital, a traveling exhibition of her virtual-reality videos, which she will expand with songs from “Utopia.”) That afternoon, she was outfitted in a multicolored dress with an asymmetrical cut. This album is supposed to be like an idea, a suggestion, a proposal of the world we could live in.”ījörk, 51, played a nearly finished version of the album for me during one of her brief stays in New York City this year, on a muggy day back in July. “Instead of moaning and becoming really angry, we need to actually come up with suggestions of what the world we want to live in, in the future, could be. “If optimism ever was like an emergency, it’s now,” she said.
Trump only strengthened her determination to envision hope. “Utopia has gone from everything being monasteries, to feminist islands, to socialism, to ‘Peach Blossom Spring,’” she said, referring to a tale of an isolated, idyllic community that was written in the fifth century in China. While making it, she read extensively about utopias: in academic studies and in stories and novels through the centuries, from ancient fables to the science fiction of Octavia E. In an interview at her apartment in Brooklyn, she said “Utopia” had long been her working title for the album. 24, is the latest iteration of Björk’s career-long fascination with how nature and technology can interact. What comes after heartbreak? For Björk, it’s “a love letter to enthusiasm and optimism,” she said.ījörk’s darkly formidable 2015 album, “Vulnicura,” reflected the breakup of her decade-long relationship with the artist Matthew Barney in songs of nearly paralyzing pain and simmering anger, weighted with dissonant, dramatic strings.īut her new album, “Utopia,” prizes airiness: the breath that powers voices and flutes the atmosphere where birds fly structures and tempos that change freely rather than being locked to a beat.
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