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Over the years, the packaging of Björk's albums grew famously, and increasingly, elaborate, but Biophilia is the first Björk project where the set ...Show synopsisOver the years, the packaging of Björk's albums grew famously, and increasingly, elaborate, but Biophilia is the first Björk project where the set of songs isn't the complete package. Designed as a suite of interactive iPad and iPhone apps that explore humanity's relationships with sound and the universe, the album's concept was so grand that it began as a musical house and ended up including scientists, engineers, video game designers, and film directors among Björk's collaborators. Biophilia's boldest innovations are in its presentation rather than in the actual music, which is surprisingly subtle and intimate given the concept's immense scope, but the perfect size to be cradled in a lap or palm. Björk recorded parts of the album on an iPad, and these songs retain that intimacy. They also recall Vespertine, which was made primarily on a laptop and also kept the closeness of its creation, as well as Homogenic's percussive onslaughts, particularly on the literally volcanic "Mutual Core." Minus the project's other layers, Biophilia sometimes feels like a soundtrack; songs such as the album-opening "Moon" -- which features gravity harps built especially for this project -- are so soft and delicate that they take a while to reveal themselves without their corresponding visuals. But just because the music is only one part of the Biophilia experience doesn't mean it's unsatisfying. Björk embodies each song's musical, scientific, and emotional concepts fully and cleverly: "Crystalline"'s insistent repetition captures mineral formations shooting out of the ground, especially when drum'n'bass beats explode halfway through the song. Biophilia's educational side is never boring, in part because Björk relates bigger phenomena to easily understood, and often tangible, occurrences; the earth is tilted on its axis like a human heart, and DNA is an "everlasting necklace." The gorgeous "Virus" expresses its multiplying phrases in a love song with facts and emotions in perfect harmony: "Like a virus needs a body/As soft tissue feeds on blood/Someday I'll find you/The urge is here." However, the most exciting thing about Biophilia is how it expresses the cycle of discovery and wonder. Knowledge and mystery don't have to be enemies: on "Cosmogony," science and spirituality hold hands and creation myths sit next to facts. Björk holds the sheer magnitude of the album together with repeated motifs -- moons, stars, pearls, hearts, hands, and above all generosity -- that reflect Biophilia's layered meanings of love, life, and love of life. The album even completes an orbit with "Solstice," which ends with the same gentle harps that began "Moon" (the CD version of the album also features three bonus tracks, including the hurtling, previously unreleased "Nattura"). Expectations run high whenever Björk announces a new album: how will she top herself? Biophilia is easily her most ambitious project as a whole, but its music is more about completion than competition, even against herself. Educational and emotional in a uniquely approachable way, these songs are a lovely part of a bigger picture. ~ Heather Phares, RoviHide synopsis
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Description:BRAND NEW. What I always wanted to do was to reconnect...BRAND NEW. What I always wanted to do was to reconnect musicology with nature, " Icelandic composer and performer Bjrk recently told the New York Times. "I always wanted to make bass lines behave like gravity."Biophilia is the Icelandic singer and composer's most ambitious undertaking in a 20-year career distinguished by continuous innovation and artistic evolution. The album title refers to a love of all living things, and in every aspect of this game-changing multi-media effort, Bjrk brilliantly connects nature, music, and technology. In addition to the music itself, this project will offer interactive iPad apps, designed by the industry's most creative minds, that feature games, music, and editorial content-allowing listeners to explore more deeply the concepts and sounds of each of Biophilia's 13 songs. The artistic and technological reach of Biophilia is nothing short of visionary. As New York Times critic Jon Pareles has put it, "Biophilia is a possible paradigm for the 21st-century album, one that welcomes the interactivity of the Internet and harnesses the power and flexibility of devices that incorporate video, audio and user control far beyond the play button." Media artist and chief Biophilia apps designer Scott Snibbe, enthuses, "To me, it feels like the birth of opera or the birth of cinema."At the core of this groundbreaking project, of course, are Bjrk's sonically brilliant and emotionally stirring new songs, akin to the magical, otherworldly, atavistic hymns of her acclaimed 2001 disc, Vespertine. On Vespertine, Bjrk rhapsodized about a new romance; here, she attempts nothing less than to retell the story of the creation of the universe in her own compellingly idiosyncratic voice.
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