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Release date Australia
October 10th, 2011
Artist
Label
One Little Indian
Number of Discs
1
Product ID
18624501
Description
The Collector's Edition of ‘Biophilia’ features special packaging and includes three bonus Bjork tracks.
‘Biophilia’ is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, ‘Biophilia’ is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album's theme song Cosmogony. All of the album's songs gradually become available inside ‘Biophilia’ as interactive experiences, beginning with the first single “Crystalline”.
Björk has collaborated with artists, designers, scientists, instrument makers, writers and software developers to create an extraordinary multimedia exploration of the universe and its physical forces, processes and structures – of which music is a part. Each in-app experience is inspired by and explores the relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic. You can use Biophilia to make and learn about music, to find out about natural phenomena, or to just enjoy Björk's music.
‘Biophilia’ opens into a three-dimensional galaxy with a compass allowing navigation between the 3-dimensional universe and a two-dimensional track list. Take a closer look by tapping on stars within the constellations and you'll see that each is an in-app purchase that gives access to the inspired combination of artifacts for each new Björk song: interactive art and games, music notation which can be used to sing along karaoke-style, abstract animations, lyrics, and essays that explore Björk's inspirations for the track. These artifacts bring together conventional and alternative ways of representing and making music to create an environment for entertainment and learning. ‘Biophilia’ challenges the way we think about music. Here, for the first time, is a music album that exploits the multimedia capabilities of mobile interactive technologies.
‘Biophilia’ was created by Björk in collaboration with interactive artist and app developer Scott Snibbe, and Björk's longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris).
Track Listing:
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| 1. | "Moon" (Lunar cycles, sequences) |
| 2. | "Thunderbolt" (Lightning, arpeggios) |
| 3. | "Crystalline" (Structure) |
| 4. | "Cosmogony" (Music of the Spheres, equilibrium) |
| 5. | "Dark Matter" (Scales) |
| 6. | "Hollow" (DNA, rhythm) |
| 7. | "Virus" (Generative music) |
| 8. | "Sacrifice" (Man and Nature, notation) |
| 9. | "Mutual Core" (Tectonic plates, chords) |
| 10. | "Solstice" (Gravity, counterpoint) |
| 11. | Hollow (Original 7 minute version) |
| 12. | Dark Matter (With Choir and Organ) |
| 13. | Nattura |
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"A hark back to the old Bjork"
Bjork's Biophilia is definitely a hark back to the more naturalistic tunes in her earlier work. The elements of nature, biology and science that have been major influences on her for this album are very apparent in not only the lyrics but in the production of the music too.
Biophilia is a beautiful album the shows how Bjork has matured immensely as musician. The music is broad, for lack of a better word, expansive even. The raw vocals you can hear in Debut have been honed to almost perfection in Biophilia but still stays true to Bjork's electronic roots.
Unlike Post and Volta I can imagine that this album is much more suited to listening to at home alone, where you can really think about the music, not in a arena spectacular live performance. It's intellectual music, despite it's mellow qualities it demands to be listened too not just played in the background.
Biophilia isn't my favorite Bjork album, I much prefer the more electronic and bass heavy Volta, Homogenic and Post. Biophilia is missing the heavy beats that makes Bjork's music stand out for me and sometimes it feels like its overcompensating for this by throwing in some almost dubstep breaks in some of the tracks that just feels a little out of place.
Despite this Biophilia is still a wonderful album and like all of Bjork's music I am willing to give it a few listens to really let it grow on me.
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