Icelandic avant-garde pop star wants to perform new album “Fossora” in Leipzig
Björk will also give a guest performance in Saxony on her tour for the current super album “Fossora”: As the local promoter Aust-Konzerte announced, the legendary Icelandic pop artist will perform on November 24th in the Arena Leipzig. Ticket sales are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Friday, February 3.
With “Fossora” Björk, who has been one of the most important avant-garde pop stars on the planet since albums like “Post” (1995) or “Vespertine” (2001), succeeded in making a big hit again at the end of the last few years after a few somewhat weaker albums: offside She reinvented herself from all complacency and mainstream listening habits as she digested her mother’s death four years ago and the lockdown in Iceland on the album – embedded in her own trinity of human, nature and technology.
While the last records were rather delicately determined by separation and flute-heavy dystopian fantasies, “Fossora” grows into an earthy, fantastic and sensitive sound experience thanks to the sound inventor, who put immense compositional and conceptual effort into her work. The violent techno rhythms literally deconstruct the melodies, and the clarinet arrangements often only hint at subtleties. Much remains fragmentary, and it is precisely this ambiguity that thrives on the 13 new songs, in which Björk digs through her emotions and digs into her music history: the cool opener “Atopos” alone rumbles violently electronically and with “Fungal City” gets an even more aesthetic, mushroom-like fantasy song with best 90s borrowings.
On the other hand there is the sad and at the same time grateful “Sorrowful Soil”, tuned to the minimum, the core of which is a choir part, and the highly emotional “Ancestress” with strings and bells, which is also dedicated to her mother. Even if everything feels like a contradiction at first and the big feelings seem irrepressible, in the end there is a calming harmony. Because similar to the cover of “Fossora”, Björk lands on the ground of the nature she created, in which everything is connected, and conjures up light in the darkness.
In Leipzig, the “Fossora” material will be combined with Björk’s art show “Comucopia”, which, based on the previous album “Utopia”, was shown as a residency show at the New York cultural center The Shed.
The tickets are only sold personalized, each customer may also purchase a maximum of six tickets.