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Oral

sofftchevaliers — 2023-10-16T08:38:34Z

Björk
Your mouth floats above my bed at night
My own private moon

Rosalía
Just because the mind can make up whatever it wants
Doesn't mean that it'll never come true
Whatever happened ?

Björk
Just because she can
Please, could I change that ?

Björk & Rosalía
Is that the right thing to do ?
Oh, I just don't know

Björk
Let me introduce one to the other
The dream and the real
Get them acquainted

Björk, Rosalía
Just because she can
Introduce
Just because she can
A mouth to a mouth

Björk & Rosalía
Is that the right thing to do ?
Oh, I just don't know

Björk, Rosalía
Can I just sneak up from behind ?
To the back of his head
And then I lift up his hair
And live forever so lightly
That's where her hair starts
Just because she can
Now please can I kiss him ?
Just because she can
Yo quiero besarle
Just because she can
Come on, please ? Can I kiss him ?
Just because she can
I just don't know

Björk & Rosalía
Just because she can
There's a line there, I can't cross it

Écrite par Björk dans les années 2000 et restée inédite, la chanson Oral a été retravaillée en 2023 en collaboration avec Rosalía et Sega Bodega. Les bénéfices de ce titre seront reversés à Aegis, l'association environnementale cofondée par Björk, visant à financer des actions juridiques pour réguler l'aquaculture en Islande.

Sorties

Streaming et vidéo clip : 21 novembre 2023 | https://bjork.lnk.to/oral
Vinyle en édition limitée : 29 novembre 2024 | https://bjork.lnk.to/oral-vinyl

From where did you draw inspiration for it ?
Love, I guess…

Björk

Un titre oublié et recyclé

Björk a composé Oral, il y a plus de 20 ans, entre les albums Homogenic et Vespertine, mais à l'époque elle estime que le titre sonne trop « pop » pour être inclus et la version originale, enregistrée sur bandes analogiques, est finalement mise de côté.

Alors qu'elle est en tournée en Australie pour Cornucopia, la chanson se rappelle à elle via une actualité sur un scandale sexuel. À la télévision, elle remarque sur l'une des bandeaux, le mot « Oral ».

En novembre 2023, pendant la pause de la tournée Cornucopia, c'est donc une ancienne composition qui refait surface et cela dans un but caritatif : les bénéfices des ventes soutiendront les pêcheurs islandais face à l'hyper-industrialisation.

Vidéo

Artwork

Oral artwork

so excited when this song was finally found (björk originally wrote it in 2002) - very proud to make the artwork for a total tuuune.
the single will raise funds to support the people of seyðisfjörour in their environmental campaign against intensive salmon farming

James Merry

Teaser

Photo de l'exploratrice islandaise Veiga Grétarsdóttir

Genèse de la collaboration avec Rosalía

Björk a souvent répété apprécier El mal Querer, l'album de Rosalía sorti en 2018 qui est imprégné notamment de sonorités reggaeton. Elle a aussi expliqué au magazine Dazed être admirative de sa technique vocale.

She's an incredible singer. I remember when her first album came out I was just blown away by her voice and her commitment to training it.

Björk, Dazed

Björk rencontre Rosalía à Barcelone par l'intermédiaire de El Guincho (producteur sur le titre Ovule sur Fossora) et d'Arca (fidèle productrice sur Vulnicura et Utopia),

i am so happy to announce the release of "oral" a single with @rosalia.vt , tomorrow 21st of november
the profits will all go to stop open net pen fish farming in iceland.
this is a 25 year old song of mine i wrote and programmed inspired by a dancehall beat (the grandmother of reggaeton)
rosalia´s experiments with the genre and her incredible voice made her an obvious guest for the song.
i feel blessed she said yes and she and her team are giving their work and all the profits to this battle.
i think somehow there is an elegant resonance between the fact that both of our voices are the same age on the recording.
i would like to thank @segabodega for co-producing this with me and rosalia.
we have a team of people from the biggest environmental groups in iceland with lawyers that will take on other open net pen fish farming cases, I would like to thank them all for all their hard voluntary work.
industrial salmon farming in open net pens is horrid for the environment. the farmed salmon goes through immense suffering, and it causes severe harm for our planet. this is an extraordinarily cruel way to make food. the fight against the open net pen industry is a part of the fight for the future of the planet.
one of the most severe environmental challenge for the north this century is the acidity of the ocean. in the space of 5 years, norwegian open sea fish farming of companies MOWI and SalMar have already damaged big areas in our fjords , both marine life , animals and plants , which will attribute to that .
we can still reverse this. our legal cases on bio-diversity, cruelty to animals and more could become exemplary cases around the world.
warmthness

björk

[...] 25 years later, Björk found a DAT tape with a rough stereo mix down of the track, which I got sent over to see what we could do with it. First I was just blown away that the discovery was made, holy shit, just being transported back to that very important time in her repertoire ! But it was a rough 2T mixdown and she wanted to manipulate the beat she programmed and some of the other elements in the production, esp her vocals which we just didn't have. So we were like, ok we gotta find the 24T tapes ! The DAT tape had the stereo rough mix and randomly the string stem isolated (no other stems), which I thought was odd but this would actually come in handy later on. A couple months went by and OLI went on the hunt and found 2x 2” 24 track ampex 499 tapes (!!) yes the multi track ! They were sent over and transferred so we had her vocals isolated & other elements but the beat was completely different and the arrangement was missing the strings. @bergurth and I remembered the strings stem were by some miracle isolated on the original DAT tapes so that helped complete the picture.
Couple more months went by and Björk texted me and said that Sega Bodega was co-producing and @rosalia.vt will be a featured vocalist. Mouth hit the floor because that is just a dream team of genius collaborators.

Heba Kadry

Björk texted me a few months ago freaking out that she'd found a 25 year old song, she sent me it and that alone made me so happy to be able to hear something like that, so when she asked me if i'd help with getting it to a finished place i kinda froze for a minute, felt a lot of things and then was like 'okay sure !. for rosalía to join on this too feels so special, the relationship between their two voices is so00 beautiful godddddd - all the money from this song goes to helping the salmon in iceland.
just so happy you can all hear this piece of music finally.
huge thanks to heba kadry always for mixing and mastering work as always.
beautiful artwork by james merry

Sega Bodega

Presse

Quand j'ai contacté Rosalía, après lui avoir transmis un dossier de presse sur le sujet, elle m'a répondu que c'était le même désastre en Argentine et au Chili. Là encore, il n'y a pas de cadre légal, les océans sont livrés au pillage. Il est temps de les traiter comme nous avons légifère pour les terres, avec les parcs nationaux. L'enjeu est de maintenir la biodiversité. Les traitements à base d'antibiotiques et de produits chimiques que subissent les saumons empoisonnent la faune et sont un désastre pour la flore environnante. Tout ceci est documenté à travers des photos qui montrent comment les fjords islandais ont été dramatiquement ravages en seulement cinq ans.
Il est vraiment temps d'agir si nous voulons encore avoir une chance d'inverser ce processus.

Björk - Libération

I wrote it between Homogenic and Vespertine and it was just too poppy. It just didn't fit into either of those albums. I just put it on salt. I programmed the original beat, and I guess I was sort of going for some sort of a dancehall mood. When I was listening to the track, I was like, Hmm, Rosalía, her last album was sort of experimental reggaeton. I can really imagine her voice inside this. Maybe that's a better way to get a guest vocalist, who sort of represents now, and there's this tunnel into the past, us having this kind of conversation.

Björk - Pitchfork

What did Rosalía bring to the track that you liked ?
We were actually the same age when we sang this song. I was, like, I don't know, 33 or something, and she's 33 now, -ish. [Rosalía is 31.] So I thought, from a pure voice nerd point of view, that's sort of interesting. At least it's not necrophilia, but it's close
What do you remember about …
I'm sorry, I'm speaking over you.No, I was just going to say some bad necrophilia joke.
I'd like to hear a bad necrophilia joke.I'll leave it at that. At least it's not necrophilia.
OK. What do you remember about writing “Oral” ?
My interpretation of the lyrics are that you're wondering about revealing your feelings to a man, maybe crossing over from a dream state. When you listen to your 33-year-old self sing that, what do you remember about it ?Yeah, you're spot on. It's totally that moment when you've met someone, and you don't know if it's friendship or something more. So you become, I guess, aroused. And you become very aware of your lips. That's maybe why I called the song “Oral.” You don't know what the consequences are if you act. Sometimes fantasy can be amazing, and that's enough ; you don't have to also do things.
But it's quite playful. It's not a painful song at all. And even though I obviously didn't write this song for salmons, I like the fact that it's a happy song.
One thing you do in the song vocally that I have always liked about your music is the way you shape your voice from smooth to almost a growl.
I don't think it's that thought-out, to be honest. And one of the growls that sounds like me is actually Rosalía. I think it was a beautiful audio reference to my voice. I'm very honored. She put a lot of work into singing this. I like the sound of our voices together.

Björk - Rolling Stone

I was like, whoa, OK – the beat in it was very primitive, but I guess I was sort of slightly inspired by dancehall from Jamaica.
..
Dancehall is the grandmother of reggaeton. When I heard it, I thought : Rosalía had a lot of reggaeton on her album. I know she really cares and wants to act. I think she was excited about it because she wants to do something about the environment.
...
It is not an activist song. It's a love song. It's not about fish. Although you could write a good punk song about that.
...
It is not me at my most experimental. I'm not really a pop musician. That's sort of why it never made it on [past albums] Homogenic or Vespertine. It was kind of too much sugar. This is as poppy as I'll ever get. That is why I wanted to give it to a good cause.

Björk - The Guardian

It didn't make sense to release it just as it was, it had to be in some conversation with the present." I think it's so great that Rosalia is singing and commenting on what I'm singing, that's how an entrance into the present is formed.
Also, it's just so cute that we're almost the same age when we sing the song. There are over twenty years between us.
We're both talking about oral, wanting to kiss someone, and it's a bit like a time machine. I'm in my thirties when I'm singing this and so is she. From a musical point of view, it makes so much sense.

Björk - Visir

Oral remix par Olof Dreijer

Björk a joué une nouvelle version du titre lors de son dj set à Paris remixé par Olof Dreijer.

Olof a également joué le morceaux lors d'un set

Presse

– How Protesting Iceland's ‘Frankenstein Fish' Inspired Björk and Rosalía to Unite for a Surprisingly Poppy Duet via RollingStone
– Björk Discusses Her “Lost” Song and Rosalía Collaboration “Oral,” a Single to Save Wild Salmon via Pitchfork
– ‘I always wanted to be David Attenborough' : Björk on protecting salmon, going on strike and magical mushrooms via The Guardian
– « L'élevage intensif du saumon ravage les fjords islandais » via Libération

News

– Björk et Rosalía s'associent pour faire campagne contre la pisciculture industrielle
– Oral disponible le 21 Novembre
– Björk en promo sur France Inter
– La collaboration entre Björk et Rosalía est disponible !
– Oral est nommé aux Icelandic Music Awards
– Oral remixé par Olof Dreijer

Crédits

Écriture : Björk
Production : Björk
Additional beat production : Sega Bodega & Noah Goldstein
Additional production & vocal arrangement by Rosalia
Mixage / Mastering : Heba Kadry
Ingénieur du son : Bergur Þórisson & David Rodriguez
Artwork : James Merry

Lien

bjork.com/aegis

Softly

2020-03-23T20:54:39Z

Softly
Fulfilling every duty
Softly
Mastering every detail

And if one attempts
One will eventually elevate above all struggle
Above this nuisance
Will be sensational
Newer

If one steadfastly attempts
And respects all community
Consistently cares
And insists on warmth at all times
One will eventually elevate above all struggle
Above daily nuisance

With the sensational
Newer

Will all things there

Chanson inédite interprétée en live avec Toumani Diabaté en 2008 à Saragosse. Elle a également chanté Hope.


cesar pardo

Jólasveinar

sofftchevaliers — 2014-06-16T12:31:47Z

Jólasveinar ganga um gólf með gildan staf í hendi móðir þeirra sópar gólf og flengir þá með vendi

Upp á stól stendur mín kanna níu nóttum fyrir jól
þá kem ég til manna

Titre accapella d'une chanson de Noël islandaise présent sur la K7 "How the ____stole Christmas" de 1995

Side A
– Santa Claus - Message From Santa (2:10)
– Jeffrey Tambor - Big Hollywood Intro (1:31)
– The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Christmas Piglet (2:04)
– Bobcat Goldthwait - Another Bobcat Christmas (2:56)
– Stone Temple Pilots - Christmastime Is Here (3:32)
– Goo Goo Dolls - Silent Night (2:17)
– The Mr. Birchum Players - A Mr. Birchum Carol (6:58)
– Bad Religion - Leon (3:17)

Side B
– Wesley Willis - Kevin & Bean Song
– Bush - Good King Something Or Other
– Jon Stewart - Message From A Jew
– Better Than Ezra - Merry Christmas Eve
– David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson - The X-mas Files
– Björk - Icelandic Christmas Song
– Jimmy The Sports Guy - Jimmy's Christmas Medley
– The Rentals - Silent Night

Moðir

sofftchevaliers — 2014-06-16T11:44:50Z

Gibberish

Titre inédit interprété lors du Glastonbury festival, le 25 juin 1994.

Anecdotes

Moðir (mère en islandais) n'est pas le vrai nom du morceau, c'est celui a été donné par la personne ayant enregistré le live.

Les paroles islandaises ne sont que quelques mots et du gibberish comme Björk a l'habitude de chanter.

Plus d'infos (en anglais) sur shinybattery.sugarcube.net

Trance

2011-03-03T17:17:04Z

this mood might not happen often
that i feel
i might breathe heavily, darling
but there's so much hope
there is so much hope out there

i've been trying
so hard
to complete all the puzzles
to create a flow
to get the current, the warmth

we all know
the nourishment we all want
feed on
we want to feed on

and then only sometime
with the right amount of tears
in our eyes
and smiles on our lips
trance-like

we know, we know
we know it was all worth it
we know, we know
it was all for a reason

let's elevate
let's elevate
let's elevate
above now
now
now
now
now

Titre composé et enregistré lors des sessions de Volta, Björk ne l'a pas conservé sur l'album, mais le titre a été utilisé en tant que bande originale de la vidéo commémorative To lee, with love, réalisée par Nick Knight en hommage à Alexander McQueen.

Un article évoque la journée d'enregistrement de la chanson :

When the S.S. crept into Studio D at Sony Studios in New York, Björk stood amid seven French horns, belting out her latest song, “Pneumonia.” Barefoot, she seemed possessed by an otherworldly spirit, contorting her body to perfectly bend notes like only one lil' Icelander can. “Now I'm trembling,” she told us afterward in the control room. “It's like childbirth.” Björk was at Sony to lay down two tracks (”Trance” is the other), each a potential closer for her upcoming album, Volta. B started Volta in the autumn of 2005, focusing on creating a different mood than on her previous two discs, Medúlla and Vespertine. “I felt I was ready to be an extrovert again,” she says. “Apart from that, I just wanted to have fun.” Though she says that ninety percent of Volta was born from her sitting in front of a computer editing brass and tribal beats, the “extroverted” portion came when she invited collaborators. For instance, “Dull Flame” is a charming duet with Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons) ; for “Hope” she traveled to Mali to record with kora player Toumani Diabaté ; and on the first single, “Earth Intruders,” B teams up with Timbaland and the Congolese group Konono No. 1.

source : rollingstone.com

Björk enregistre une prise vocale de Trance à 03:47.

Synchronicity

benjicok — 2007-06-19T17:03:05Z

Titre instrumental

Contribution musicale pour le documentaire sur l'équipe de skate Hot Chocolate réalisé par Spike Jonze en 2004.

Voir la Video

Nu flyver Anton

benjicok — 2007-06-19T15:35:03Z

Nu flyver Anton
helt af sig selv

Hvad tror du Anton ?
bliver drømmene til virkelighed ?

Han flyver gennem himlen
og himlen hænger
som en krave
om hans hals

Det er så sort og meget mørkt
imellem sol og måne

Nu flyver Anton

Sa pisser han pa mørkret
og mørkret
bliver til lys

Nu flyver Anton

Sa fik han sit første kys
sit første kys !
med tungen !
tungen
gik som
en pro-pel-ler
woah !

Oooh, nu flyver Anton

Titre générique du film danois Anton, réalisé par Aage Rais-Nordentoft, sorti en 1996.

Crédits

Musique : Björk
Chant : Björk
Paroles : Jakob Gislason

Anecdote

La chanson interprétée par Björk est en danois.

Space Ghost Song

benjicok — 1997-04-19T13:45:00Z

Ég er í einu herbergi, að tala við Geim Draug
og ég finn að hann líkar að tala við mig
Geim Draugur
Geim Draugur
Geim Draugur
Geim Draugur

Transcription des Paroles : Lina Hansson

Anglais :
I am in a room, talking to the Space Ghost
and I feel that he likes to talk to me
Space Ghost
Space Ghost
Space Ghost
Space Ghost

Français :
Je suis dans une Pièce, et je parle à Space Ghost
Et j'ai l'impression qu'il aime me parler
Space Ghost
Space Ghost
Space Ghost
Space Ghost

Cette chanson a été composée spécialement pour l'épisode de Space Ghost Coast To Coast de 2001 où Björk apparaît avec Thom Yorke.

Jólakötturinn

benjicok — 1987-12-25T13:20:00Z

Islandais

Þið kannizt við jólaköttinn
sá köttur var griðarstór
Fólk vissi'ekki hvaðan hann kom
eða hvert hann fór

Hann glennti upp glyrnurnar sinar
glóandi báðar tvær
Það var ekki heiglum hent
að horfa í þær

Kamparnir beittir sem broddar
upp úr bakinu kryppna há
og klærnar à loðinni löpp
var ljótt að sjá

Því var það, að konurnar kepptust
við kamba og vefstól og rokk
og prjónuðu litfagran lepp
eða lítin sokk

Þvi kötturinn mátti' ekki koma
og krækja í börnin smá
Þau urðu að fásína flík
þeim fullorðnu hjá

Og er kveikt var á jólakvöldið
og kötturin gægðist inn
stóðu börnin bísperrt og rjóð
með böggulinn sinn

Hann veifaði stélinu sterka
hann stökk og hann klóraði' og blés
og var ýmist uppi í dal
eða úti' um nes

Hann sveimaði, soltinn og grimmur
í sárköldum jólasnæ
og vakti í hjörtunum hroll
á hverjum bæ

Ef mjálmað var aumlega úti
var ólukkan samstundis vís
Allir vissu' að hann veiddi menn
en vildi ekki mýs

Hann lagðist á fátæka fólkið
sem fékk enga nýja spjör
fyrir jólin - og baslaði og bjó
við bágust kjör

Frá því tók hann ætið í einu
allan þess jólamat
og át það svo oftast nær sjálft
ef hann gat

Því var það, að konurnar kepptust
við kamba og vefstól og rokk
og prjónuðu litfagran lepp
eða lítin sokk

Sum höfðe fengið svuntu
og sum höfðu fengið skó
eða eitthvað, sem þótti þarft
en þad var nóg

Þvi kisa máti' engan eta
sem einhverja flíkina hlaut
Hún hvæsti þá heldur ljót
og hljóp á braut

Hvort enn er hún til, veit ég ekki
en aum yrði hennar för
ef allir eignuðust næst
einhverja spjör

Þið hafið nú kannske í huga
að hjálpa, ef þörf verður á
máske enn finnist einhver börn
sem ekkert fá

Máske, að leitin að þeim sem líða
af ljósskorti heims um ból
gefi ykkur góðan dag
og gleðileg jól

Le Jólakötturinn ou Jólaköttur (« chat de Noël » en islandais) est un personnage issu du folklore. Chat énorme et immoral, il rôde dans les campagnes durant les fêtes et dévore les gens (de préférence les enfants !) qui ne portent pas de nouveaux vêtements avant le réveillon. Donc, à Noël, les enfants reçoivent toujours un vêtement neuf.

Publié sur la compilation"Hvít Er Borg Og Bær" en décembre 1987.

paroles en anglais :

You know the christmas cat
– that cat is very large
We dont know where he came from
nor where he has gone

He opened his eyes widely
glowing both of them
it was not for cowards
to look into them

His hair sharp as needles
his back was high and bulgy
and claws on his hairy paw
were not a pretty sight

Therefore the women competed
to rock and sow and spin
and knitted colorful clothes
or one little sock

For the cat could not come
and get the little children
they had to get new clothes
from the grownups

When christmas eve was lighted
and the cat looked inside
the children stood straight and red-cheeked
with their presents

He waved his strong tail
he jumped, scratched and blew
and was either in the valley
or out on the headland

He walked about, hungry and mean
in hurtfully cold christmas snow
and kindled the hearts with fear
in every town

If outside one heard a weak "meaow"
then unluck was sure to happen
all knew he hunted men
and didnt want mice

He followed the poorer people
who didnt get any new clothing
near christmas - and tried and lived
in poorest conditions

From them he took at the same time
all their christmas food
and ate them also themselves
if he could

Therefore the women competed
to rock and sow and spin
and knitted colorful clothes
or one little sock

Some had gotten an apron
and some had got a new shoe
or anything that was needful
but that was enough

For pussy should not eat no-one
who got some new piece of clothes
She hissed with her ugly voice
and ran away

If she still exists I dont know
but for nothing would be his trip
if everybody would get next christmas
some new rag

You may want to keep it in mind
to help if there is need
for somewhere there might be children
who get nothing at all

Mayhaps that looking for those who suffer
from lack of plentiful lights
will give you a happy season
and merry christmas

Björk.fr – Site francophone dédié à Björk : musique, clips et actualités

Oral

Sorties

Björk

Un titre oublié et recyclé

Vidéo

Artwork

James Merry

Teaser

Genèse de la collaboration avec Rosalía

Björk, Dazed

björk

Heba Kadry

Sega Bodega

Presse

Björk - Libération

Björk - Pitchfork

Björk - Rolling Stone

Björk - The Guardian

Björk - Visir

Oral remix par Olof Dreijer

Presse

News

Crédits

Lien

Softly

Jólasveinar

Moðir

Anecdotes

Trance

source : rollingstone.com

Synchronicity

Nu flyver Anton

Crédits

Anecdote

Space Ghost Song

Jólakötturinn

paroles en anglais :