Out now in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009WHAVG/qid=1122388501/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/026-8895521-9122818
Out on Aug. 23 in the US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A2H5M4/qid=1122388687/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-6430466-2372630
It's probably the weirdest album I've ever heard!
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shareIt is available in Los Angeles, USA. And despite Bjork's professed love of Japanese culture and recent studies of Noh forms, the soundtrack does not stand well on its own and shows uncharacteristic uneveness. Japanese musical forms have an organic progression, which in this work suffer from the attenuation of certain elements. It actually sounds as if she shut herself up with a handfull of foreign aural cues and cranked them through pell mell algorithmic processes to spit out a droning, atonal dirge with a few moments of mechanized manipulation or filagree beauty. For the most part, it lacks human vitality (which is what usually makes her so irrepresible). Recommended only for fans of the esoteric-just-to-be-different ilk.
That said, I'm sure it pairs well with, if it is not completely overwhelmed by, M. Barney's visual score.
It is available in Los Angeles, USA.
Funny, none of the release dates I'd read mentioned anything about an UK only release on 7/25. If it is an import, Amoeba must have been having a fire sale on new UK merch, because it was even cheaper than the new Babyface CD just down the asile. And surely selling fewer copies.
And PirateX--no resentment necessary if you like her work and buy everything up in proof of your fan-aticism. Bjork is an amazing song writer and performer--I saw The Sugarcubes open for PIL and have liked her since--but that hardly makes every belch and orgasm she churns through her computer a masterpiece.
Funny, none of the release dates I'd read mentioned anything about an UK only release on 7/25.
I resent being called "esoteric-just-to-be-different." I'm actually listening to it right now. Of course, I'd buy anything that Bjork is involved with because I am the biggest Bjork fan you'll ever meet, and I'm not saying that "just to be different." I genuinly enjoy everything she's ever done, whether it's stand alone or part of her regular catalog.
shareGet some fresh air or something, it's not meant to be that deep. Bjork isn't a structural artist, she's very sporadic and I'm assuming a lot of this soundtrack happened organically, contrary to what you're saying in your post - the fact that it lacks certain elements just confirms to me that it is a lot more 'human' than most music. People by nature are not perfect, and without careful consideration we will never put 100% into anything.
Anyhow, I can't be bothered listening to this album at all. Just can't get into it, but having said that 'Storm' is quickly becoming a favorite Bjork song of mine.
I agree with agoble, i love bjork and have done for many years, although lately it appears she is in danger of dissapearing up her own a**** in a desperate attempt to 'look cool'. Medulla was interesting and contained many good songs although D.r 9 appears to take the more pretentious elements of medulla and expand on them. Having said that there are many beautiful tracks on the album - i imagine the music will sit perfectly with Barneys' visuals - as long as it has more weight behind it than the cremaster crap.
shareThis soundtrack is totally un-related to any of Bjork's albums and is not a Bjork solo album in the same way that medulla, Homogenic etc are.
This is a soundtrack to the film. songs like Hunter vessel sound weird because its music to a "baddy ship" in the film - it's not meant to sound like a pop tune that everyone will want to listen to in their cars ;-)
I think the soundtrack is very very good - for what it is. music for a piece of art in the form of a film.
i think it is remarkable. While I view Barney with a skeptical yet fascinated eye, (he is much too detailed in his work to merely be posing) and Bjork is always stretching foward in her own blissful universe, which i would reside in till the end of my days, what excites me most is her inclusion of will oldham and akira rabelais into the soundtrack. If you are not familiar with Akira Rabelais, check out www.akirarabelais.com. I'm not sure if you can get to samples of his music from there, but you may find it at Samadhi Sound, a record label releasing his work. This is yet another interesting marriage of ancient and modern, this time the sho and Noh theatre with technological exploration, a staple of Bjork's (and now I am discovering, Barney's)work.
shareI RARELY like soundtracks on their own...dancer in the dark, wedding singer and 28 days later are the only soundtracks I can actually listen to and really enjoy.
That being said, I saw Drawing Restraint, and like alot of films the music works perfectly there, and made me want to listen to the album after seeing the film, not sure how long that will last though.
Unfortunate that more people will not be able to hear the music in its intended context because its just plain beautiful. That fact that Barney (and Bjorks music) could keep my full attention for 2 and 1/2 hours was a lovely suprise.
Takk for that.
It's available in Asutralia. It's a great soundtrack. "Storm" is brilliant. undoubtedly we won't see the film here in Asutralia for ages
shareIt has just been released in France and I just bought it. I'm currently listening to it while I'm writing that and it sounds promising...
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OK I've just ended my first experience with this soundtrack and here are my thoughts: very interesting, quite ecclectic, a lack of Björk's voice, surely not the best composition she's written but overall quite good. Let's see how my opinion will evolve after more of it...
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i totally wish she sang on more songs, but the ones she does sing on are really good! "Bath" and "Storm" are masterpieces, and "Catacea" is really sweet. as for the non-obviously-bjork songs i really like "Pearl", "Gratitude" and "ambergris march" (which reminds me of "Vespertine"). it's got those gems, but it's not the type of album i can listen to as a whole album very often. It's not the wierdest album I've ever heard (Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and Yoko Ono are responsible for those) but I am extremely interested to hear what Bjork will do next. I can't wait to see the movie piece for DR9...
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Okay. A friend of mine just downloaded it, and after listening to it, I'm not sure he actually downloaded the right album. I think it may have been mislabeled. It's all folky, and has an acoustic guitar and an accordian. There's a guy and a girl singing. The girl isn't Bjork and the guy does most of the singing. It's in another language, and I'm too stupid to figure out what language it is. It's really, really good. I like it a lot. I'm just not sure it wasn't just something that got mislabeled. Does the soundtrack fit my description of it?
"A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."-Orson Welles