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Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an avant-pop singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and occasional actress, whose work includes six solo albums and two film soundtracks. She is best known for her expressive vocals, broad soprano vocal range, and a diverse and electronic musical style which incorporates influences from many different genres, including pop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient, electronic, classical, folk and trip hop. |
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News in english
about Bjork
(July / 2009)
Glastonbury In Photos: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Date: 01 Jul 2009
Drowned In Sound -
In her test-screen coloured American Indian head dress and Geisha-ish cape, Karen O went beyond any Alien-chic look Bjork or Ms. Moss could ever hope to bring to Glastonbury.
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Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk Headline Brooklyn's Pool Parties Date: 02 Jul 2009
Spin -
It's only fitting that a concert series based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn -- hipsterdom's Plymouth Rock -- has assembled a lineup stocked with indie faves galore. Sentimental pop wizards Grizzly Bear, laptop mash-up maestro Girl Talk, Bjork-collaborating up-and-comers Dirty Projectors, and rowdy Texan noisesmiths/ SPIN office assaulters ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are among the ...
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Richard Avedon Exhibit Opening at SFMOMA Date: 09 Jul 2009
SFist -
On Saturday, the first major retrospective of the photographs of Richard Avedon since his death in 2004 opens at SFMOMA. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop on the tour for this show, and Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 focuses primarily on the artist as portrait photographer, featuring some of his best-known portraits including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Bjork and William S. ...
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bjork in Full-Throated Plumage, Jazz in a Calmer Key Date: 12 Jul 2009
All About Jazz -
There has been no shortage of live Bjork documentation in recent seasons. So lets file Voltaic, released by Nonesuch a couple of weeks ago, under the category of Things We Didnt Think We Needed. Available in five configurations, from a single CD to a multiple CD-DVD-LP set, it chronicles a typical frenzy of activity following the release of Bjorks 2007 album, Volta. The principal CD, recorded in ...
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Bjork in Full-Throated Plumage, Jazz in a Calmer Key Date: 12 Jul 2009
New York Times -
Reviews of the latest releases from Bjork, Joe Morris, Clark, James Carney Group and Bryan Sutton.
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Economic meltdown opens door to Iceland Date: 15 Jul 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- In better times, Nina Bjork, one of Iceland's fashion glitterati, would be busy styling photo shoots for the island's top design houses. ...
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Bjork: Voltaic DVD/CD/Vinyl Date: 16 Jul 2009
All About Jazz -
BJORK'S MULTI-MEDIA VOLTAIC OUT ON NONESUCH RECORDS Bjork Bjork's Voltaic, a very special DVD/CD/VINYL recording, was released in the U.S. earlier this month by Nonesuch Records, full track listings are below. Voltaic is a lovingly packaged celebration of the past two years of activities surrounding Bjork's Volta her critically praised sixth studio album, which came out in 2007...
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Clark - Totems Flare Date: 21 Jul 2009
Drowned In Sound -
Some musicians are in it for the long haul. Their art pours out of them via cathartic necessity rather than any obligation or ulterior motive to create. Bjork, Neil Young, PJ Harvey: you tolerate their weaker moments because you know they’re going to re
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