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Bjork - Homogenic CD
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HOMOGENIC was nominated for a 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
"Bachelorette was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.
As one of modern music's most enigmatic and consistently entertaining personalities, Bjork has never shied away from the edge. Whether making straight ahead dance music, exploratory modern rock, or even show-tune-caliber drama, her vision has always remained innovative and original. Her voice jumps, in the space of a syllable, from a kitten-like purr to a banshee's howl, and is never anything less than captivating. HOMOGENIC, her latest musical endeavor, finds her plunging headlong into electronica, a form well-suited to her intense, offbeat phrasing and tone.
From the skittering breakbeats and ghostly wails of the opening "Hunter" to the all-out electronic crash that is "Pluto," HOMOGENIC explores the melding of human and machine. The drama of "Bachlorette" finds a lush, rich string section following a tripping electronic beat, giving way to the Icelandic wonder's trademark wail. The juxtaposition of thoroughly modern sounds with conventional elements, such as symphonic arrangements, pipe organ, and accordion, form a central theme, to which HOMOGENIC's title undoubtedly refers. On HOMOGENIC, the traditional and the technological find their meeting point in Bjork's soaring, otherworldly voice.
Personnel: Björk (keyboards); Helen Tunstall (harp); Una Sveinbjarnardóttir, Mark Berrow, Peter Oxer, Jim McLeod, Maciej Rakowski, Perry Montague-Mason, Wilfred Gibson, Sif Tulinius, Sigrun Edvaldsdottir, Sigurbjorn Bernhardsson, Vaughan Armon, Ben Cruft, Roger Garland, Gavyn Wright (violin); Hrund Hardardottir, George Robertson, Roger Chase, Moeidur Anna Sigurdardottir, Bill Hawkes, Peter Lale (viola); John Tunnell, Sigurdur Bjarki Gunnarsson, Jon R. Ornolfsson, Paul Kegg, Helen Liebmann, Martin Loveday (cello); Alasdair Alloy (harmonica); Yasuhiro Kobayashi (accordion); Mike Thompson , Jeffrey Bryant , Jeff Bryant (horns); Guy Sigsworth (clavichord, keyboards); Mark Bell (keyboards, programming, drum programming); Trevor Morais (drums, electronic drums); Frank Ricotti (snare drum); Alasdair Malloy (glass armonica); Steve Henderson (timbales, timpani); Markus Dravs (programming, drum programming); Richard Brown, Howie B, Danny Joe Brown Band, Marius de Vries (programming).
Audio Mixers: Howie B; Mark "Spike" Stent.
Photographer: Nick Knight.
Arrangers: Deodato; Björk.
Personnel includes: Bjork (vocals, keyboards); Gavin Wright, Wilf Gibson, Peter Oxer, Roger Garland, Jim McLeod, Ben Cruft (violin); George Robertson, Peter Lale, Roger Chase, Bill Hawkes (viola); Martin Loveday, Helen Liebmann, Paul Kegg, John Tunnell (cello); Helen Tunstall (harp); Alasdair Malloy (harmonica); Yasuhiro Kobayashi (accordian); Jeff Bryant (horns); Mark Bell (keyboards, programming, drum programming); Guy Sigsworth (keyboards, clavichord, organ); Chris Laurence, Paul Pritchard (bass); Steve Henderson (timpani); Frank Ricotti (military snare); Trevor Morais (electronic drums); Markus Dravs (programming, drum programming); Richard Brown, Marius DeVries, Howie B. (programming); The Icelandic String Octet.
Producers: Bjork, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B.
Award Winner
Rolling Stone (10/16/97, pp.103-104) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...she leaves home and investigates love's bumpier back roads....celebrates difference and challenges listeners to explore the joys of contradiction with open ears and vivid imagination....one of the boldest--and most exciting--albums of the year."
Spin (1/98, p.86) - Ranked #4 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year."
Spin (10/97, p.135) - 9 (out of 10) - "...the 31-year-old Reykjavik native's new album delves deeply into hip-hop, flies in orchestras, and proves that the electronic generation will yield much more than a string of dance epiphanies..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, pp.76-77) - "...may be Bjork's most audacious move in a career filled with them....On roughly half the album she and coproducer Mark Bell...take two seemingly incompatible genres--techno and classical--and weld them together. It's like sneaking a boom box into a chamber recital and seeing what happens..." - Rating: A
Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #33 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year."
Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
NME (Magazine) (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #15 in NME's 1997 Critic's Poll.
NME (Magazine) (9/20/97, p.54) - 9 (out of 10) - "...her third solo album, HOMOGENIC, is probably her most weird, it is also her best....It is here...that Bjork has delivered her most emotional, highly-charged and groovy record, as well as a stinging triumph for the spirit of adventure."
Bjork - Homogenic Songs
| 1 | Hunter Lp Version
Björk | 4:15 | $0.99 | |
| 2 | Joga Lp Version
Björk | 5:06 | $0.99 | |
| 3 | Unravel Lp Version
Björk | 3:18 | $0.99 | |
| 4 | Bachelorette Family Tree Version
Björk | 5:17 | $0.99 | |
| 5 | All Neon Like Lp Version
Björk | 5:53 | $0.99 | |
| 6 | 5 Years Lp Version
Björk | 4:29 | $0.99 | |
| 7 | Immature Lp Version
Björk | 3:07 | $0.99 | |
| 8 | Alarm Call Lp Version
Björk | 4:20 | $0.99 | |
| 9 | Pluto Lp Version
Björk | 3:19 | $0.99 | |
| 10 | All Is Full of Love Lp Version
Björk | 4:32 | $0.99 | |
Homogenic Music Review
Average Rating: (4.6 out of 5 stars)   She does it again
The layers duke, the LAYERS! How she does such amazing, in depth, emotional work is beyond me. Bjork's lyrics don't tell you how she feels, but command your own intospection before you even begin to understand her purpose. "Love's a two way dream" Her images are extrodanary, composistion phenominal.
Submitted by android_lady (Texas) 
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 organic and beautiful
The opening hunter is just amazing, and right to the last sombre yet beautiful track, all is full of love, this album is complete with an amazing icelandic orchestra on some selections (unravel, bachelorette, joga) that just make this a must-buy. A very organic album, that will leave you wanting more, which she does well with Vespertine.
Submitted by quizzical (encino, ca, usa)
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Raw Emotion, Original Experiments
Experimentation is still the main rule in Bjork's work. In this album, corrosive rhythms marry the soft sound of strings in a very unique form. With Homogenic, Bjork has done it again.
Dark, but not impenetrable, this album covers a series of emotions, going from melancholy, to paranoia, to hope. It prooves Bjork to be one of the most creative genius of our time.
Her childish and privileged voice still sounds fresh and emotional.
Homogenic is an album that promises to sound fres and innovative through the years.
FOR FANS OF: Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Happy Rhodes, Portishead, PJ Harvey and Radiohead.
IF YOU LIKE THIS CD, CHECK OUT: Peter Gabriel's "Us"; PJ Harvey's "Is This Desire?"; Portishead's "Portishead"; Happy Rhodes' "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight".
Submitted by pekky57 (Charleston, SC)
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Es un disco espectacular. Cada melodia parece independiente, pero al juntar todas las canciones pareciera que el album en si es una sola cancion, desde Hunter hasta All is full of Love, cada cancion es algo indescriptible. Combina la distorsion con la poesia (Bachelorette) y lega a mostrar la total destuccion del sonido con una impecable delicadeza(Pluto)
Submitted by orlq (Lima, Peru)
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This is much better than "Telegram" (which in my opinion was pointless) and once again Bjork is taking chances no one else has the guts to. This is probably her most innovative and daring work yet. She's advanced so quickly that it seems like there should be another link between "Post" (her last "real" album) and "Homogenic".
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