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01___Earth Intruders 02____Wanderlust 03_____Dull Flame Of Desire 04______Innocence 05_______I See Who You Are 06_______Vertebrae by Vertebrae 07______Pneumonia 08_____Hope 09___Declare Independence 10__My Juvenile |
 RELEASE7 may 2007 FORMATSCD limited edition CD double vinyl ARTWORKart direction and design by m/m <paris> sculpture by bernhard willhelm photographed by nick knight make-up by feride uslu hair by jimo salako inside images and fire letters photographed by inez van lamsweerde & vinoodh matadin crochet costume by the icelandic love corporation: sigrún hrólfsdóttir, jóní jónsdóttir & eirún sigurðardóttir make-up by andrea helgadóttir, inspired by antje majewski hair by christiaan set by james chinlund |
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  I am always looking for words that have some sort of energy Usually the name just comes, from a magazine or somebody says something I had waited for years while working on the album but it didn't come In the lyrics there are words like "voltage" and "voodoo", which I found to be too common somehow I have always tried to choose titles which are kind of latin or something, which aren't english, which is a little funny because we europeans find latin to be sort of neutral language... But I found Volta... I don't recall how it came about, but I Googled it and found that it is both the name of a scientist in Italy who invented the battery and also a river in Africa which had been built by men and a lagoon built by men called Lake Volta So several parts come into it I'm not going to name anything specific, people can guess for themselves what it is There is also a mideval dance with carries that name, a very funny dance which is very hard to learn Thusly, I got a lot of things in one word: a dance, a river in Africa which doesn't work anymore, and the battery So okay - this fits. Visir.is 22 march 2007 |
| Earth Intruders | Innocence | Declare Independence | Wanderlust | TBA |
Released 21 May 2007
Music Video directed by Michel Ocelot. |
Released 23 July 2007
Music Video directed by Fred & Annabelle. |
Released 01 January 2008
Music Video directed by Michel Gondry. |
Released 14 April 2008
Music Video directed by Encyclopedia Pictura. |
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recorded/edited/mixed in: iceland.reykjavík Björk's place iceland.Þingvellir the cabin usa.new york Björk's place usa.new york Manhattan Center Studios usa.new york Looking Glass Studios usa.new york Sony Music Studios usa.san francisco the 23rd floor of the W Hotel jamaica.portland Gee Jam Studios uk.london Olympic Studios uk.london Damian's place uk.london The Pierce Rooms belgium.brussels Studio Caraïbes mali.bamako Studio Bogolan malta+la gomera+tunisia the boat |
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| It's sort of a justice song. Like, "we want justice NOW" song So I ended up feeling "how on earth am I gonna do that visually?"... and I ended up finding an animator who's French, but he was brought up in Africa, and did gorgeous cartoons, for example one called Kirikou I just think he portrays people with dark skin in a very on-level sort of way that is very equal |
It's not like the colony style that I think Africans are exhausted with, kind of like "oh, I'll kill the tiger and put its head on my wall", like it's an exotic creature or something I mean, me being from Iceland, I've never seen an elf in my life, but still 20 years later, everybody calls me "elfin" or whatever So basically, Michel Ocelot is doing the video to this one And it's animated And it's about the Earth Intruders. |
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I had been invited by Unicef to visit the areas hit hardest by the tsunami I was there for a few days, and I just sucked it all up, I couldn't even react to it, it was just too much Then I had to take several airplanes and go to New York, and in a fit of jet lag, trying to sleep in airplanes, I had this dream I dreamt that a tsunami of people would go over the airplane and hit the White House and sort of scrape it off its ground. And as I was in the dream, I was looking up at the floor tiles Because that was somehting that was really weird in Indonesia, that you could see how a whole town was just scraped off the ground, but you could still see the floortiles and go, "This is the bedroom, this is the bathroom..." And all the mud and the bones, and people still digging out with teaspoons finding toys |
I was with a woman who found her mom's favorite dress there, her crying while pulling it out of the mud It was pretty fierce So this dream is like some peculiar naïve fantasy, that maybe a tsunami of people will take over the White House and correct it all. XFM interview, April 2007 |
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I have sort of just done what turned me most on at any given moment I am so emotionally driven that i have learned long time ago that if my stuff doesn´t come from my heart it simply collapses Because of the hairy meaning of that “production” word , it has really varied I think every person i have worked with there has been a different working pattern / method But for the tracks that i don´t come up with the beats , most of the time the guys supply beats and i sit for months editing back and forth and making it work. Brooklyn Vegan, April 2007 |
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We sang together in the 24 hour dark with our faces
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together, standing on the polar bear rug, and in jamaica,
crying out at the ocean and leaping into waterfalls.
Antony Hegarty
bjork.com interview february 2007
together, standing on the polar bear rug, and in jamaica,
crying out at the ocean and leaping into waterfalls.
Antony Hegarty bjork.com interview february 2007
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