BJORK - Fossora - CD

CD - Standard Edition

"Each album always starts with a feeling that I try to shape into sound this time around the feeling was landing ( after my last album Utopia which was all island in the clouds element air and no bass ) on the earth and digging my feet into the ground it was also woven into how I experienced the "now" this time around. 7 billion of us did it together nesting in our homes quarantining being long enough in one place that we shot down roots. my new album "Fossora" is about that. It is a word i made up, it is the feminine of fossore ( digger, delver, ditcher ) so in short it means "she who digs" ( into the ground ) so sonically it is about bass , heavy bottom-end , we have 6 bass clarinets and punchy sub.

I would like to especially thank Bergur Pórisson and Heba Kadry side project , El Guincho , Hamrahlíð Choir , Soraya Nayyar , clarinet sextet Murmuri , Siggi String Quartet Ensemble , Emilie Nicolas , serpentwithfeet, Viibra and last but not least : Sindri and Dóa.

Visuals were made by Viðar Logi , James Merry , m/m , Nick Knight , Andy Huang , Edda, Isshehungry , Tomi , Sayaka , Sunna , Sara and Heimir and my ever so loyal and magnificent team : Derek , Rosamary , Catherine , Chiara , Hilma and Móa. - Björk

Björk has announced a new album. Fossora, the follow-up to 2017’s Utopia, will arrive on September 30th. The album includes a recurring sextet of bass clarinets, a smattering of gabber beats, and a theme—reflected in the title, based on the word “digger” in Latin—of mushroom life. It also includes two songs written for Björk’s late mother, the environmental activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, who died in 2018.

Fossora features a song with Serpentwithfeet and backing vocals from Björk’s son, Sindri, and daughter, Ísadóra, as well as contributions from Gabber Modus Operandi, the Indonesian dance duo who brewed up a style that the duo and Björk termed “biological techno.” Describing Utopia as “a pacifist, idealistic album with flutes and synths and birds,” Björk envisaged Fossora thus: “Let’s see what it’s like when you walk into this fantasy and, you know, have a lunch and farrrrt, and do normal things, like meet your friends.”

Björk is also planning a podcast series about her discography later this year.

Tracklist:

1. Atopos
2. Ovule
3. Mycelia
4. Sorrowful Soil
5. Ancestress
6. Fagurt Er í Fjörðum
7. Victimhood
8. Allow
9. Fungal City
10. Trölla-Gabba
11. Freefall
12. Fossora
13. Her Mother's House (Ft. ​serpentwithfeet)