Björk recorded her first solo album, a collection of cover versions of popular songs, as an 11-year-old music student in 1977. Throughout her teens she performed with various short-lived bands, ending up at age 18 with Kukl, a punk group that eventually became the Sugarcubes. With Bj...
That age is perfect for making things because you don't have inhibitions; if you start developing your own musical language at 10, imagine how great it would be 20 years later.So, with the songs for this project, I try to address scales, chords, rhythm, different time signatures. A lot...
Music runs in the family as her mother is a well-known pop singer; Hera *** herself started performing at a young age – she had already recorded some children’s songs and appeared in television commercials before her twelfth birthday. She won her first singing competition in 1988 aged jus...
Elektra has pushed the release date of Bjork's "Greatest Hits" album from Sept. 3 to Oct. 8.
Beats produced by Timbaland are prominently featured on three tracks: the intense opener “Earth Intruders” (which hits iTunes April 9) the space-age “Innocence” and “Hope.” The latter lyrically alludes to the quandary of terrorism, with Bjork singing, “What’s the lesser of two evils...
Her sixth solo album, “Vespertine,” offers modest refinements on her craft, but Monday’s ambitious concert marked a more memorable step in her progress. Advertisement With a choir of 11 women from Greenland on stage and a full orchestra down in the pit, Bjork was like a kid set loose...
On “Heirloom,” Björk dreams up a fantastic new-age remedy for laryngitis: “I swallow warm glowing lights/My mother and son bake for me.” The midtempo decree is the fastest track on the entire album, yet barely paced to quicken our pulse. (The uptempo “Our Hands,” an outtake fr...
Beginning her piano studies at age six, and recording her first studio album at eleven, her impressive level and variety of musical development began very young. This would then only continue between 1979 and 1984, founding at least three bands, ranging from styles like punk, to jazz-fusion....
(a song revolving around the age-old sentiment “giving is receiving”), “Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left Carry My Pain On The Right),” and “Triumph Of A Heart” are most successful. The latter could be described as “future disco,” with human voices subbing for bass kick...
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