björk

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作为流行音乐圈中音域最为宽广的歌手之一，Bjork Gudmundsdottir（既是Bjork）把主要的精力都花在创作一些艺术和实验性很强的音乐，来跟主流音乐抗争。大多数人都以为她一直一个人做音乐，故而当得知她1993年单飞前曾经和三个不同的乐队合作发行过专辑时显得很惊讶。事实上，这个古怪精灵的天才自从16岁开始就有自己有关名声荣誉的判断尺度。出生在冰岛的Reykjavik时，没有任何明显迹象表明某天Bjork将成为世界知名的冰岛音乐家。还是一个孩子的时候，她就开始练习长笛、钢琴和声乐。1979年，加入了第一个乐队。十五岁时，她组建了Tappi Tikarass这个组合，一个受 Siouxie and the Banshees强烈影响的post-punk乐队。1982年，乐队的两首歌收入到一个叫Rock in Reykjavik的冰岛New Wave运动的记录片里，结果，Bjork很快就被认定为这个领域内最有希望的天才。 1983年，Bjork和其他一些冰岛New Wave明星被邀到一起，组成一个超级组合来做一个特别的电台节目。她和其他几个成员（里面有Eina Orn和Sigtryggur Baldursson）相处得非常好。这样到了这年的秋天，他们组成了一只名为Kukl的新乐队。到1983年Tappi Tikarass第二张也是最后一张专辑出来时，Bjork已把自己的主要精力都投放到Kukl上了。接下来的两年里，她和乐队发行了共发行了两张传辑，在欧洲作巡回演出，开始形成一种带爵士味的政治性post-punk的风格。但到了1986年中，Kukl却解散了。 Bjork跟她的吉他手丈夫Thor Eldon在1986年6月8日有了一个儿子Sindir，于此的同一天，她组建了一个新乐队，除了这对幸福的新父母之外，还有几个Kukl的旧成员。到了年底，他们最终确定了乐队的名字Sykurmolanir，用英文来说是Sugarcubes。乐队梦幻般的单曲&Birthday&的冰岛语版在1987年获得了巨大的成功，也给他们带来了一份跟Elektra公司的合约。1988年秋季，他们的首张专辑&Life is Too Good&在美国发行，获得了极好的评论。除&Birthday&之外，喧嚣刺耳或者有点让人迷惑的&Motorcrash&也受到些许青睐。乐队的第二张CD，&Here Today Tomorrow Next Week&，却没有以前那么幸运了。1990年，Bjork抽出一些时间录制了&Gling Glo&，这是张传统冰岛爵士唱片。尽管Sugarcubes 1992的第三张专辑&Stick Around for Joy&还附带了一张合乎适宜的命名单曲，乐队在年内迟些时候解散了。之前，乐队的麻烦主要集中在Bjork身上；她单飞的倾向越来越明显。Sugarcubes的天鹅绝唱&It is it& 在1992年发行，后来又发行了一张舞曲重混专辑，它也预示了Bjork的单飞。与Thor分手后，1993年Bjork带着儿子来到了伦敦。这次迁居让她可以跟不列颠舞曲界的许多制作人合作。当中非常优秀的一个（Nellee Hooper）为她首张个人专辑&Debut&掌舵制作。专辑定音鼓、采样机和吉他贯穿始终的单曲 &Human Behaviour& 发行量巨大。在此帮助下，Debut受到了差异巨大的评价，被Rolling Stone视为垃圾却又为其他许多乐人所称颂。数字叙述了事实：Debut的销售量最终确定了Bjork在美国的地位。 1995年，Bjork推出了更富忧郁色调的&Post&。它没有获得像Debut那样的销量，尽管推出了大型娱乐性的Busby Berkeley风格的Video&Blow a Fuse(It is Oh So Quiet)&，Bjork做了一个爵士大乐团一样狂妄的尝试。1997年早期，&Telegram&开始发行，其中几乎每首Post里的歌要么被重新混缩，要么被重新录制，合作者也包括Dillinja、Deodato和Brodsky四重奏等许多人。进入崭新的世纪以后，Bjork的艺术生命中如今了电影的因素，她主演的影片《黑暗中的舞者》获得了业内人事的称赞。前不久它的最新专辑问世，这一切都让我们看到，这位乐坛的常青树仍然具有了非常灿烂的艺术生命...... 而在2011年，比约克发行了专辑《Biophilia》，甚至受到了iPad的启发，推出了一个关于本张专辑的App，并在iTunes Store上发售。 by Stephen Thomas Erlewine DebutBj rk first came to prominence as one of the lead vocalists of the avant pop Icelandic sextet the Sugarcubes, but when she launched a solo career after the group's 1992 demise, she quickly eclipsed her old band's popularity. Instead of following in the Sugarcubes' arty guitar rock pretensions, Bj rk immersed herself in dance and club culture, working with many of the biggest names in the genre, including Nellee Hooper, Underworld, and Tricky. Debut, her first solo effort (except for an Icelandic-only smash released when she was just 11 years old), not only established her new artistic direction, but it became an international hit, making her one of the '90s most unlikely stars. Bj rk Gudmundsd ttir Though the title of Debut implied that it was Bj rk's first-ever solo project, she had actually been a professional vocalist since she was a child. When she was in elementary school in Reykjavik, she studied classical piano and, eventually, her teachers submitted a tape of her singing Tina Charles' rk a record contract. At the age of 11, her eponymous first album was released; the record contained covers of several pop songs, including the Beatles' rk became a hit within Iceland and was not released in any other country. The EyeBj rk's musical tastes were changed by the punk revolution of the late '70s; in 1979, she formed a post-punk group called Exodus and, in the following year, she sang in Jam 80. In 1981, Bj rk and Exodus bassist Jakob Magnusson formed Tappi Tikarrass, which released an EP, Bitid Fast I Vitid, on Spor later that year; it was followed by the full-length Miranda in 1983. Following Tappi Tikarrass, she formed the goth-tinged post-punk group KUKL with Einar Orn Benediktsson. KUKL released two albums, The Eye (1984) and Holidays in Europe (1986), on Crass Records before the band metamorphosed into the Sugarcubes in the summer of 1986. Life's Too Goodthe Sugarcubes became one of the rare Icelandic bands to break out of their native country when their debut album, Life's Too Good, became a British and American hit in 1988. For the next four years, the group maintained a successful cult following in the U.K. and the U.S. while they were stars within Iceland. During 1990, Bj rk recorded a set of jazz standards and originals with an Icelandic bebop group called Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar. The album, Gling-Gl , was released only in Iceland. By 1992, tensions between Bj rk and Einar had grown substantially, which resulted in the band splitting apart. Following the breakup of the group, Bj rk moved to London, where she began pursuing a dance-oriented solo career. The previous year, she had sung on 808 State's rk struck up a working relationship with Nellee Hooper, a producer who had formerly worked with Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. The first result of their partnership was rk had hit U.K. singles -- including Debut went gold in the U.S. and platinum in the U.K. Post During 1994, Bj rk was relatively quiet as she recorded her second album with Nellee Hooper, Tricky, 808 State's Graham Massey, and Howie B of Mo' Wax Records; she also released a remix EP, co-wrote Madonna's rk's forthcoming album, was released as a teaser single in the spring of 1995; it debuted at number ten in the U.K. and became a moderate alternative rock hit in the U.S. Post, her second album, was released in June of 1995 to positive reviews; it peaked at number two in the U.K. and number 32 in the U.S. Post matched its predecessor in terms of sales and praise, going gold in the U.S. and helping her earn her second BRIT Award for Best International Female Artist. Post yielded the British hit singles rk released Telegram, an album comprised of radical remixes of the entire Post album, in the U.K.; Telegram was released in America in January 1997. HomogenicHomogenic, her most experimental studio effort to date, followed later that same year and spawned many remix releases in the next few years to follow. In the spring of 2000, she was named Best Actress by jurors at the Cannes Film Festival for her work in Lars Von Trier's Palme d'Or-winning Dancer in the Dark. Selmasongs, her score for the film, reunited Bj rk with her Homogenic collaborator Mark Bell and arrived in the fall of 2000, just in time for Dancer in the Dark's U.S. release. The full-length follow-up, Vespertine, was released one year later. She released a Greatest Hits collection and the Family Tree box set late in 2002. After performing a few dates in 2003, Bj rk geared up for a busy 2004, which included the release of her all-vocals and vocal samples-based album Med lla and a performance of one of its songs, &Oceania,& at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Drawing Restraint 9 The soundtrack to Drawing Restraint 9, a film by multimedia artist Matthew Barney, arrived in 2005 and also featured contributions from Will Oldham. Released in 2007, Volta returned to the more playful, percussive side of Bj rk's music and included collaborations with Timbaland, Toumani Diabat , Antony Hegarty, and an all-female Icelandic choir. Her tour supporting the album was a lavish affair, as chronicled in the 2009 set Voltaic, which was released in sets ranging from a CD，DVD to a limited multi-disc and vinyl edition. While she was touring the world in support of Volta, Bj rk began work on her most ambitious project to date: Biophilia, an interactive exploration of humanity's relationships to sound and the universe that would also educate listeners，viewers about music theory and science. Initially envisioned as a musical house, then an IMAX film directed by Michel Gondry, Biophilia's final form -- which took shape with the help of engineers, scientists, and video game designers -- was as a suite of apps for the iPad and iPhone. The album, which was also released on CD, arrived in October 2011. Bastards, a collection of Biophilia remixes, was released in Europe in late 2012 and in the U.S. in early 2013. Around that time, Bj rk launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund translating the Biophilia app for Android and Windows 8 platforms. (更多)