The Music Of Bjork

Directed by Nick Knight.
Written by Björk
Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd.


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Bjork's

CRYSTALLINE from Biophilia

by Troy Trolley



Everything about Bjork is so utterly original that when you
first hear one of her songs, there is almost a discomfort
in trying to fit it into anything familiar to you.

It takes a few listens to finally find your harmony with it,
and then it feels like you've known it forever.

Her latest release combines the best of her originality, along with new technology, and references to our primal past, as well as all of the tiny things that are a part of the vastness of who we are, in relationships,
in ourselves, in our lives.

I know Bjork isn't easy to like, but for those who put the time in,
there is an artistic genius here that is rare on our planet.

She is one of my greatest inspirations.

She's an Artisan who comes from Entity 4.
She is a teaching, in herself.

The new album, BIOPHILIA, is Bjork's exploration of the catching up
of technology to our ideas and creativity, so that nearly everyone has a chance to create with ease what used to be complicated to create.

It is the merging of electronics and humans, accessibility and creativity.

This album is being released song by song as apps on the iPad,
which was also used for part of t


Björk

- Crystalline

(Official Music Video)
he recording of the album.

In this song, Crystalline, she speaks to the efforts we make in learning
how to love, and that true love grows slowly, like crystals, within us,
and not without our direct efforts to overcome the things that block
that growth.
There is Beauty in the Chaos at the end...



CRYSTALINE
Underneath our feet
Crystals grow like plants (listen how they grow)
I'm blinded by the lights (listen how they glow)
In the core of the earth (listen how they grow)

Crystalline internal nebula (crystalline)
Rocks growing slow-mo (crystalline)
I conquer claustrophobia (crystalline)
And demand the light

We mimic the openness
Of the ones we love
Dovetail our generosity
Equalize the flow

With our hearts
We chisel quartz
To reach Love

Crystalline internal nebula (crystalline)
Rocks growing slow-mo (crystalline)
I conquer claustrophobia (crystalline)
And demand the light
internal nebula (crystalline)
Rocks growing slow-mo (crystalline)
I conquer claustrophobia (crystalline)
And demand the light

It's the sparkle you become
conquer anxiety
Sparkle you become
conquer anxiety
Sparkle you become
When you conquer anxiety
It's the sparkle you become
when you conquer anxiety

MORE ON BIOPHILIA via Wikipedia:
Björk has previously revealed that "Biophilia" has been partly composed on an iPad; she has said that because she does not play conventional instruments like the piano or the guitar, this way of composing was appealing.

"Crystalline", the first single released, is a mostly electronic song, featuring a continuous "gameleste" base and electronic beats and rhythm. After the bridge, the song features a gameleste solo, and consequently ends with an uproarious breakcore section which uses the Amen break.

New musical instruments were specially developed for the album, and specially for the shows at the Manchester International Festival that took place in mid-2011 to introduce the album. The Tesla coil was used as a musical instrument on the song "Thunderbolt". A "gameleste", a mixture between a gamelan and a celesta which was programmed in order to be played remotely by an iPad, was also used in several songs. A group of pendulums were put together, creating patterns with their moves, transmitting the movements of the Earth to the sound of a harp.

For the music, Björk related the phenomenon the song describes to a musical structure or resource. For example; the song "Moon" has different musical cycles that repeat throughout the song; the song "Thunderbolt" contains arpeggios, inspired in the space between a lightning is seen and a thunder is heard; and in "Solstice", the counterpoint makes reference to the movement of planets and the Earth rotation, and the pendulums used on the song make tribute to the Foucault pendulum.

The lyrics also present metaphores to those phenomena. "Dark Matter" features heavy gibberish since the dark matter phenomena are directly "unexplainable". "Virus" describes "fatal relationships" such as the relationship between a virus and a cell as Björk explained "It’s like I have this new neighbour that I have to sort of learn to live with"; "Solstice" presents the relation between the gravity effect on celestial bodies and on human beings and in "Hollow", Björk took inspiration in her "ancestors and DNA, that the grounds open below you and you can feel your mother and her mother, and her mother, and her mother, and her mother 30,000 years back. So suddenly you’re this kinda tunnel, or trunk of DNA… All these ghosts come up so it ended up begin a halloween song and quite gothic in a way… It’s like being part of this everlasting necklace when you’re just a bead on a chain and you sort of want to belong and be a part of it and it’s just like a miracle."

Björk also tried to break the typical 4/4 time signature. For example, "Solstice" features 7/4 and 6/4 times bars;[17] "Hollow", 17/8 times bars and "Mutual Core", 5/4 times bars.


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"Love it! I also have to post a song from her. It is probably one of her more "catchier" songs, but it's my favorite. I love the way it makes me feel."
Heidi Taylor


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