Jóga
Written for her best friend, Jóga. Michel Gondry’s video is a flight over Icelandic landscape.
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Björk wanted Homogenic to sound like Iceland: “rough volcanoes with soft moss growing all over it.”
She began it in London. In September 1996 a fan in Florida posted her a bomb and then killed himself; police intercepted the parcel, and she moved the sessions to a studio in southern Spain. Mark Bell made the beats. The Icelandic String Octet played arrangements by Eumir Deodato.
Written for her best friend, Jóga. Michel Gondry’s video is a flight over Icelandic landscape.
She wrote the lyrics with the Icelandic poet Sjón.
About the urge, as she put it, “to destroy everything so you can start again.”
Chris Cunningham’s video, in which two robots with her face embrace, has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.