I have yet to hear the new Bjork, but it's too bad that there are a
lot of people out there who think she's done some amazingly new and
original thing.
Kracfive records was doing the same thing three years ago. Check out
Original Instrument:
http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat009cd.htm
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:06:27 -0500, Luis-Manuel Garcia
<lgarcia@uchicago.edu> wrote:
quoted 25 lines Has anybody else picked up the new Bjork album yet? I'm still in the
>
> Has anybody else picked up the new Bjork album yet? I'm still in the
> middle of my "listen repeatedly" phase, but I'm really warming up to
> it. There's lots of great tracks and, as someone who studied voice and
> did a lot of non-western singing styles, I'm fascinated by what she did
> with the human voice. Most of the tracks are close to entirely vocal
> samples of various sorts, although some of these make use of digital
> transformations to create granular and oddly-pitched effects. I'm
> guessing that track 6 ("Who is it") will be her most accessible
> ballad-hit, while track 14 ("Triumph of a Heart") will be remixed for
> the dancefloor over and over. The album isn't for everyone, I suppose,
> but I'm really loving it.
>
> cheerio,
> Luis
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