Word: bjork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project, Nearly God, Tricky has expanded his circle of friends and collaborators but stripped down his production technique. The line-up includes Marina Tooley Bird, whose girlish, soulful vocals gave Maxinquaye so much musical depth, as well as Terry Hall, Alison Moyet, Neneh Cherry and Ice-landic cyber-nymph Bjork. The new album is a striking departure, layering stark, multifarious vocals over dark, spare musical lines. The result is a complex and often beautiful exploration of love, obsession and the subdued violence lurking beneath our deepest and most sincere affections...
Elfin singers from Iceland are not high on the Committee to Protect Journalists' hit list. This may change, however, since BJORK let fly at a reporter at Bangkok airport, throwing her to the ground and banging her head on the floor. "All I said was, 'Welcome to Thailand,' and she just hit me, lost control and went crazy," cable reporter JULIE KAUFMAN told Reuters. The Grammy nominee telephoned Kaufman the next day to say she was sorry, explaining that she was concerned about her son Sindri, and apologized publicly in a statement. Kaufman won't press charges. No word...
...HARVEY To Bring You My Love (Island). This utterly graceless singer is a favorite of the rock press. But her hopelessly mannered CD--with its distorted vocals and theatrical emotionality--is for musical masochists only. In the world of experimental pop, Bjork's whimsically wonderful Post and The Rebirth of Cool: Vol. 3, featuring Portishead and Tricky, are more daring and eclectic...
...Bjork is fizzing with gently off-center stories and observations. At one point she says she believes in fairies. At another she says her green wrinkly dress, which is fastened at the shoulder with a safety pin, is made of something called "Belgian envelope paper." She is a delightfully luminous presence. Maybe it's her accent. Her voice has a musical lilt, and her statements often end with an upward lift, as if she were asking a question. Then again, maybe her otherworldliness has something to do with Iceland. Her ex-husband is named Thor (her current boyfriend, a British...
...Bjork--her last name is Gudmundsdottir, but she rarely uses it--was born in Reykjavik in 1965. Her mother is a student of homeopathy and a teacher of the Japanese martial art aikido, her father is the head of Iceland's electricians' union. Bjork began making records in the '70s, before she entered her teens. In the late '80s she began to get international attention as the lead singer for the arty Icelandic rock band the Sugarcubes (Thor was the guitarist). In 1993 she left the band and released her first major-label solo album, Debut, a somewhat haphazard collection...