Bjork?s a natural city girl
Bjork was the name that prompted the most excited gasps at the official press launch of Manchester International Festival back in March. But if Manchester was thrilled at the prospect of calling the Icelandic singer all theirs for 18 days. Bjork is just as full of excitement to be back in the bosom of Manchester.
Her relationship with the city is a long one. Way back in 1990, she hooked up with local dance music trio 808 State to sing on and co-write two tracks on their ground-breaking 1991 album ex:el.
Fans of her band The Sugarcubes, 808 State brought Bjork over for live shows, including their massive Manchester homecoming at the G-Mex (now Manchester Central). Bjork remembers it well, but more than anything remembers how that time shaped her future musical direction.
“I definitely feel grateful to Manchester,” she enthuses. “I came here so long ago as an 808 State fan and they took me to raves and clubbing.
“I had never seen anything like it! I still keep in touch with Graham (Massey, the group’s guitarist, keyboadist and saxophonist) and I am looking forward to spending time together with him while I’m here and meeting some people I haven’t met since back then.”
There’s a heartwarming mutual appreciation between Bjork and Manchester. And that goes a long way to explaining the reason why MIF’s director Alex Poots has tirelessly pursued Bjork for the festival. That she had a new album that goes beyond all the usual parameters of music making meant that Poots struck MIF gold when she agreed to take part.
Biophilia – set for release later this year but showcased live last night at Campfield Market, on the corner of Liverpool Road and Deansgate – not only features the kind of brave and unconventional approach to music making that Bjork is legendary for, but it is also the world’s first ‘app’ album, meaning the songs can be listened to and played with.
“The people at MIF are helping me set up a prototype that hopefully we can elaborate on in the other cities we will go to with the tour,” Bjork explains. “Each app has not only a natural element as a theme but also a musicology element. So it is written with educational things in mind.
“For example: Crystalline, the crystal song, teaches you about structures in music; Hollow, the DNA song, about rhythm and time signatures; Solstice, the pendulum song, helps you to write your own gravity driven counterpoint and so on.
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