Bjork - Fossora

Bjork - Fossora

Tracklisting
1. "Atopos" (featuring Kasimyn)
2. "Ovule"
3. "Mycelia"
4. "Sorrowful Soil"
5. "Ancestress" (featuring Sindri Eldon)
6. "Fagurt Er í Fjörðum"
7. "Victimhood"
8. "Allow" (featuring Emilie Nicolas)
9. "Fungal City" (featuring Serpentwithfeet)
10. "Trölla-Gabba" (featuring Kasimyn)
11. "Freefall"
12. "Fossora" (featuring Kasimyn)9
13. "Her Mother's House" (featuring Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney)

Björk has announced a new album. Fossora, the follow-up to 2017’s Utopia. 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.”

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 þórisson 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