BARCELONA (Spain) .- The Icelandic singer Björk has offered tonight at the Poble Spanish in Barcelona, northeastern, his most symphonic side in the only concert scheduled this summer throughout Spain.
Shortly after 21.00 hours, Björk has entered the stage with one of his usual extravagant costumes and face partially covered by a mask, preceded by a string orchestra, mostly female, a keyboard player and a drummer.
Björk has introduced the practice -eight issues- all nine of their last album, the eighth of his career, “Vulnicura”, an exploration into the theme of love and heartbreak that contrasts with the more abstract context of his previous album, “Biophilia”.
The Björk herself said in their profiles on social networks “Vulnicura” is a “heartbreak album” with a “emotional chronology” which includes three pre-break and three after that emotional separation songs.
“I will travel with the songs, but not with the exhibition,” said the Icelandic singer herself in Big Apple.
The original singer maverick and has written and produced “Vulnicura” in collaboration with the Venezuelan producer Arca and British musician The Haxan Cloak.
Björk has performed at the Spanish Town Although his initial interest was to act at the MACBA, in a similar experience to that recently lived in New York, where his performances coincided with a temporary exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which She paid him something of a tribute to his courage to experiment with music and art for 20 years, and it presented a chronology of sounds, videos, objects, instruments, costumes and images.
” travel with the songs, but not with exposure, “said the Icelandic singer herself in the Big Apple.
On the giant screen behind the stage, there have been throughout the evening fractal images, abstract evocations, combined with scenes from nature itself or its native Iceland, sometimes idyllic paradise, other lunar, or surreal landscape as if riding on a mammoth one of the many waterways of the land.
Icelandic has begun with six themes of “Vulnicura”, “Stonemilker”, “Lionsong”, “Black Lake”, “History of Touches”, “Family” and “notget”.
Of all these songs, the most spectacular is “Black Lake”, ten minutes whisper of Björk with a background in crescendo instrumentation and display a sequence of symbols reminiscent at times to a staff.
“Black Lake “led to an experimental video, shot by young filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang in a volcanic cave in Iceland, a remote place that becomes your best camouflage, leaving the end to walk barefoot on a floor that resembles an irregular carpet covered with moss.
The video was one of the star pieces of the exhibition at MoMA, but today on the stage images of the singer -a times duplicada- on an Icelandic volcanic beach with his unmistakable projected sand and black rocks.
After presenting the backbone of the new album, Björk has ventured into other sound and visual landscapes through songs like “Come to Me”, “Pleasure is all mine”, ” I See Who You Are “,” Harm of Will “or” All Neon Like “.
In the final part of the concert, he has returned to perform songs from” Vulnicura “with” Quicksand “and” Mouth Mantra “, combined with cuts of his career as” Wanderlust “or” Mutual Core “, all cut with a pattern that genealogically has its ancestors in the music of Robert Fripp or more symphonic experiments Peter Gabriel” Sctratch my back “.
Without a full house, Björk has been sheltered by an audience given to the Icelandic musical mysticism, mostly composed of young ‘cool’ and yoga practitioners, who have been encouraged especially in the phase end of the performance.
Since the release of his album ‘Debut’ in 1993, Björk has sold over 20 million albums worldwide and won awards like four Brit Awards, 4 VMA and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition of the depth of their lyrics and music, and personal voice.
The singer’s European tour that began this month July in Manchester, Barcelona has acted before in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lyon (France), and then travel to Rome, Berlin, Saint-Malo, Paris and Reykjavik in November.
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