This new ‘Crystalline’ track really sounds like your typical Björk’s song, with this hard-to-describe atmosphere, just between weirdness and annoyance, full of strange noises and her lost-in-the-absence-of-melody soaring vocals, all powerful in their crying and lamenting. Strangely, the song ends in an insane firing-gun-like drumming.
This is the first track from her new album-multimedia project ‘Biophilia’, and I know that a lot of people are impatiently waiting for this album, which Björk introduces as, ‘an extraordinary answer to this fascinating question and her most ambitious and exciting work to date. A multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows, Biophilia celebrates how sound works in nature, exploring the infinite expanse of the universe, from planetary systems to atomic structure.’
I’ve personally never been able to get Björk, and this description makes me laugh a little bit; doesn’t she want to try way too hard? I know she is from Iceland, and she knows about nature, volcanoes, continental drift, snow and all that hot geysers stuff, but the expanse of the universe to the atomic structure?
This is what she said to factmag.com:
‘For me the project is a continuation of Volta, and whereas Volta is more about anthropology, this is kinda without the humans and…both zooming out, like the planets, but also zooming in, into the atoms, and in that way aesthetically sympathizing with sound, and how sound moves, and the physics of sound, and how notes in a room behave, how they bounce off walls and between objects, and it’s kind of more similar to how planets and microscopic things work.’
She just lost me again, I like when these artists have all figured out all the nature mysteries.
You can listen to the song here:
http://planetill.com/2011/06/bjork-crystalline/