Jose Oliva
Barcelona (Spain), July 24 (EFE) .- The Icelandic singer Björk has offered tonight at the Poble Spanish in Barcelona, northeastern, more symphonic his side in the only concert scheduled this summer in 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 string orchestra, largely 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” a exploration within the theme of love and heartbreak in contrast to the more abstract context of his previous album, “Biophilia”.
The Björk said in their own profiles on social networks “Vulnicura” is a ” heartbreak album “with an” emotional chronology “which includes three pre-break and three post-separation that sentimental songs.
The original singer maverick and has written and produced” Vulnicura “in collaboration with producer Venezuelan Ark and the 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 he lived in New York, where his performances coincided with a temporary exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which gave him something of a tribute for their courage to experiment with music and art for 20 years, and it presented a chronology of sounds , videos, objects, instruments, costumes and images.
“I will travel with the songs, but not with the exhibition,” said the Icelandic singer in the Big Apple itself.
In the Giant screen upstage, have occurred 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 he rides 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 with a whisper of Björk crescendo background instrumentation and display a succession 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 becomes your best camouflage, leaving the end to walk barefoot on a floor that resembles an irregular carpet of moss covered.
The video was one of the star pieces of the exhibition at MoMA, but in today’s scenario -a singer images duplicada- times on an Icelandic volcanic beach with its distinctive black sand and rocks were projected.
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 concert, 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 by Robert Fripp and Peter more symphonic Gabriel experiments as “Sctratch my back”.
Without a full house, Björk has been sheltered by an audience given to musical mysticism of Iceland, mainly composed of ‘cool’ young and yoga practitioners, who have been encouraged especially in the final phase of the action.
Since the release of his album ‘Debut’ in 1993, Björk has sold more than 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, who start their European tour this 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. EFE
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