Vulnicura Strings


01. Mouth Mantra - 06:09
02. Lionsong (Una Sveinbjarnardóttir solo) - 6:17
04. Atom Dance (Sławomir Zubrzycki) - 07:46
05. Stonemilker - 06:48
06. Quicksand - 04:08
07. Notget (Sławomir Zubrzycki) - 04:41
08. Family (Sławomir Zubrzycki) - 07:04
Digital release bonus track





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Björk à propos de l’album




thanks to chris elms for mixing it

i hope you like this version too


The string arrangements for Vulnicura took me way longer than writing the album, or singing it, or writing the lyrics. It took me a year to do. I did a lot of embroidery and knitting as a kid, and the arrangements really tapped into that tradition. It’s like needlework. I really enjoy it. It takes a lot of time. I worked with local Icelandic musicians, and we have a different kind of relationship. It’s about costing billions and you go to the studio and it takes two hours to record it, like in the big cities. Red Bull Music Academy - Novembre 2016

For me, the key moment in the strings album is there’s a viola organista version of “Black Lake,” which has a section four minutes in that’s just a string, a sound, and so the song is broken down to this one very universal sounding exposition of raw pain. You carry it for a minute before the warmth comes back again. How did you walk that line between that intensity of emotion and bringing people back to a more comfortable place ?
It’s really intuitive. I do a lot of gigs. When you’ve done as many gigs as I’ve done, you learn in the room with people how far you can push it, and it’s fun to go and push it and take it further, and then reel in. With a recording that’s very different, because what you’ve made has to make sense in all these different rooms around the world. I believe you can be just as immersive or just as visceral. But there’s a certain grace or refinement that if you weave around it in the arrangement and even in the mix, the sound, the mastering, a lot happens there, and then it becomes this more spongy vessel that can take all the speakers and all the different rooms it will eventually travel to. But you don’t have to sacrifice any of the emergency. It’s just a question of how you wrap it up. Red Bull Music Academy - Novembre 2016

Björk à propos de Black lake

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