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From:
Luis-Manuel Garcia
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Date:
Sat, 4 Sep 2004 23:06:27 -0500
Subject:
[idm] Bjork's new album (Medulla)
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Politics is parlor tricks." -W. Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org