BJORK: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "ANCESTRESS"

 Iceland based alternative rock singer BJORK has posted a video for  "ANCESTRESS", a track from her new release  "FOSSORA", due to be unleashed 9/30/2022 via ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS. 

 

 BJORK unleashed "UTOPIA", 11/24/2017 via ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FROM BJORK: 

 

bio.site/bjork

on my new album , fossora , i wrote 2 songs to my mother . this one , ancestress , is written just after her wordly funeral and is probably a common musician´s reaction ,

the impulse of making your version of the story , later .

this song is a letter to my mother , her story seen from my point of view

it is written in chronological order , the first verse is my childhood and so on

only recently did i discover that this song is probably somehow inspired by an icelandic song "grafskrift"

which is somehow a very direct and patriarchial account of someones life

i probably wanted to approach this in a more feminine way

her biological and emotional story

not her professions , partners or dates of birth and death

i am very grateful to my son , sindri eldon , to arrange and sing vocals for the verses

as he has a delicious voice and was very close to her .

for 20 years i have not been able to attend funerals as something in them rubbed me the wrong way .

possibly a big part of it is after having lived a life of thousand concerts , i probably have too strong ideas on how a ritual should be ,

what kinda sound , musical structure , words and it took me all this time to discover that for me all funerals should be outside .

probably what was offending me most was how can one set off the spirit in such a claustrophobic environment as a church ?

when the soul sets off , it needs to be outside so there is room for how enormous it becomes when it merges with the elements

warmth

björk

director : andrew thomas huang

co-creative directors : björk & james merry

vocals and vocal arrangements : sindri eldon

spirit dancer : shota inoue

choreographer : erna omarsdottir

dancers : iceland dance company , saga sig, charmene pang , emilía gísladóttir , s. andrean sigurgeirsson

procession : arnar sævarsson

violinists : una sveinbjarnardóttir , geirþrúður ása guðjónsdóttir , helga þóra björgvinsdóttir , laura liu , ingrid karlsdóttir , þórunn ósk marinósdóttir , lucja koczot

cellists : sigurður bjarki gunnarsson , júlía mogensen

contrabass player : xun yang

percussionist : soraya nayyar

all wardrobe : valentino, pierpaolo piccioli

masks & ceremonial spoon : james merry

styling : edda gudmundsdottir

bjork makeup : hungry / johannes jaruraak

bjork hair : hildur osp gunnarsdottir

makeup band & dancers : sunna bjork erlingsdottir

production company : object & animal

ep : dom thomas

producer : alex chamberlain

production company iceland : sara nassim

producer iceland : hrönn kristinsdóttir

dop : andrew yuyi truong

production designers : heimir sverrisson & dóra hrund gísladóttir

3d printing : halldór snorrason

ceramic jug : jón einar björnsson

 

 

 

VIDEO BELOW: BJORK:  "ANCESTRESS" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF BJORK): 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-