Bjork and MOCA have just released the music video Biophilia’s “Mutual Core”, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang (who also did the artwork for the Biophilia remix album). The video is unlisted, meaning you can only see it if you have the link, you can’t find it by searching. The explosive video features Bjork upto her waist in sand, surrounded by weird strange, lurking, licking creatures. As it turns out, these are definitely not the creatures…
A constant innovator, Bjork is pushing the lines between what’s conventional and not in the music business once with the release of her highly anticipated forthcoming x-th album, Biophilia. In the lines of what I scribbled earlier, the Icelandic songbird is planning to release the aforementioned release as a whole big iPad app. To be more exact, an app for each song, centralized by one core app. The apps will impress through interactivity. For example,…
Moving and extremely emotional, last year’s “The Crying Light” put Antony and The Johnsons in a whole different spectrum and finally made me appreciate them band for its true worth. Barely a year after this previous monument’s release, Antony Hegarty is prepping a new album titled “Swanlights”, whose cover is captioned above and release date set for Oct. 5 via Secretly Canadian. One of the tracks off this new effort is ‘Flétta’, which sees Antony…
Oh baby this was bound to happen. What am I talking about?? Yeah, a newspaper run by the Chinese communist rulling party is slamming and thrashing the oh so much expected Guns’N’Roses new album, Chinese Democracy. They claim it’s an attack on their nation, and there’s a really big chance that it’s going to be illegal in that country, though I have to say it’s hard for me to understand how an objective listener could…
Bjork had some moderate differnces with the press this past weekend, when she reacted to an item in the The Reykjavík Grapevine crediting Valgeir Sigurðsson with writing the arrangements on her 2001 album Vespertine, although this was not the case at all. She took the liberty of correcting the respective article, offering the true full credits of the album and then went on and accuessed the journalists of sexism, not necessarily the Grapevine, but rather…
One my favorite festivals is the Big Day Out Festival, a January/February trek in the Australian and New Zealand outback featuring live shows from the most hip acts at present date. This year’s headliners include: [tag]Arcade Fire[/tag], [tag]LCD Soundsystem[/tag], [tag]Rage Against The Machine[/tag], [tag]Battles[/tag], [tag]Bjork[/tag], Dizzee Rascals just to name a few, with future artist to be announced as the festival dates close in. For now you can have a look at the BDO schedule…
If you recall, in a previous post, we talked about a video making contest for [tag]Bjork[/tag]’s newest single ‘Innocence’. Bjork chose 10 lucky finalists from 500 entries, that were up for voting on the website and yesterday evening the winner was announced. Actually winners, the french directors Fred & Annabela who won with entry #10, the best video out of the finalist, hands down; I haven’t seen videos as good as this from actual hired…
A few months ago an announcement at [tag]Bjork[/tag]’s website opened a ‘YouTube like’ video contest for the Islandic diva’s track “Innocence” of the recent “Volta” LP. Innocence is to be made as video. An idea is born. The idea is to make the video. The video to Innocence, a song of yet to be released Volta record. Who is to make the video? Another idea is born: It is to be you, my dear! Anyone…
The islandic diva [tag]Bjork[/tag] has maped 6 six more events to her tour, in support of her recent album “Volta”. The concerts will be performed this autumn, the fist one being held on September 8 in Toronto, while the last one will be held in New York’s Madison Square Garden on September 24.
It seems that [tag]Bjork[/tag] has come across a very nifty musical gadget: “the reactable”, which she’s going to use in the upcoming [tag]Volta[/tag] tour. The very sophisticateddevice has been developed by a group of digital luthiers at the Audiovisual Institute at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. It’s basically consisted of a glowing round tabletop on which and blocks that are placed on its surface, each block represents a sound, a sample or a filter…
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