With a palm full of stars
I throw them like dice on the table
Until the desired constellation appears

« …sings Björk on her new album, Medúlla. If you were seeking a metaphor for her extraordinary approach to music making, that lyric would serve nicely. Long adept at fashioning new sonic universes, Björk now returns with a record which is perhaps her most daring. “Instruments are so over”, she has said with a mischievous twinkle. The vast majority of Medúlla, you see, relies solely on the myriad textures and timbres of the human voice. » [Medúlla Biography]

Jesus, I forgot! Ok, ok, don't panic, let's get organized here -- if memory is not your strongest feature, write a post-it note: Björk releases her most recent album Medúlla in only a few days time (UK+INTL launch 30 August 2004 and USA launch 31 August 2004)!

« I was going to call the album ‘Ink’, because I wanted it to be like that black, 5,000 year-old blood that’s inside us all; an ancient spirit that’s passionate and dark, a spirit that survives. Something in me wanted to leave out civilisation, to rewind to before it all happened and work out, ‘Where is the human soul? What if we do without civilisation and religion and patriotism, without the stuff that has gone wrong?’ When I first moved to New York there was room for immigrants and eccentrics and whoever, then suddenly it became the most scarily patriotic place on earth.

Then I got drunk – surprise!- with my artist friend Gabriela and she came up with the title Medúlla. It basically means ‘marrow’ in medical language, in Latin. Not just you’re bone marrow, but marrow in the kidneys and marrow in your hair, too. It’s about getting to the essence of something. And with this album being all vocals, that made sense. » [Medúlla Biography]

As always, ground breaking album artwork: art, art and art. "Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, a couple both privately and professionally, stem from Holland and reside in New York. They first did the 'Volumen' cover in 1998, and have worked with M/M (Paris) on the 'Vespertine' cover as well."

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