| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/elektra Entertainment | | UPC: 00075596206129 | | Release Date: 9/23/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 60077011 | | Item#: MYWVFF | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24730 | Format:  CD |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Bjork (vocals, keyboards); Gavin Wright, Wilf Gibson, Peter Oxer, Roger Garland, Jim McLeod, Ben Cruft (violin); George Robertson, Peter Lale, Roger Chase, Bill Hawkes (viola); Martin Loveday, Helen Liebmann, Paul Kegg, John Tunnell (cello); Helen Tunstall (harp); Alasdair Malloy (harmonica); Yasuhiro Kobayashi (accordian); Jeff Bryant (horns); Mark Bell (keyboards, programming, drum programming); Guy Sigsworth (keyboards, clavichord, organ); Chris Laurence, Paul Pritchard (bass); Steve Henderson (timpani); Frank Ricotti (military snare); Trevor Morais (electronic drums); Markus Dravs (programming, drum programming); Richard Brown, Marius DeVries, Howie B. (programming); The Icelandic String Octet. | | Producers: Bjork, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B. | | HOMOGENIC was nominated for a 1998 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. | | "Bachelorette was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. | | As one of modern music's most enigmatic and consistently entertaining personalities, Bjork has never shied away from the edge. Whether making straight ahead dance music, exploratory modern rock, or even show-tune-caliber drama, her vision has always remained innovative and original. Her voice jumps, in the space of a syllable, from a kitten-like purr to a banshee's howl, and is never anything less than captivating. HOMOGENIC, her latest musical endeavor, finds her plunging headlong into electronica, a form well-suited to her intense, offbeat phrasing and tone. | | From the skittering breakbeats and ghostly wails of the opening "Hunter" to the all-out electronic crash that is "Pluto," HOMOGENIC explores the melding of human and machine. The drama of "Bachlorette" finds a lush, rich string section following a tripping electronic beat, giving way to the Icelandic wonder's trademark wail. The juxtaposition of thoroughly modern sounds with conventional elements, such as symphonic arrangements, pipe organ, and accordion, form a central theme, to which HOMOGENIC's title undoubtedly refers. On HOMOGENIC, the traditional and the technological find their meeting point in Bjork's soaring, otherworldly voice. |
Engineer: Markus Dravs |
Musical Guests | | Howie B. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/23/1997 | | Original Release Date : 1997 | | Catalog ID : 62061 | | Label : Elektra Entertainment | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075596206129 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (10/16/97, pp.103-104)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...she leaves home and investigates love's bumpier back roads....celebrates difference and challenges listeners to explore the joys of contradiction with open ears and vivid imagination....one of the boldest--and most exciting--albums of the year."Spin (1/98, p.86)
- Ranked #4 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year." Spin (10/97, p.135)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...the 31-year-old Reykjavik native's new album delves deeply into hip-hop, flies in orchestras, and proves that the electronic generation will yield much more than a string of dance epiphanies..." Entertainment Weekly (9/26/97, pp.76-77)
- "...may be Bjork's most audacious move in a career filled with them....On roughly half the album she and coproducer Mark Bell...take two seemingly incompatible genres--techno and classical--and weld them together. It's like sneaking a boom box into a chamber recital and seeing what happens..." - Rating: A Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67)
- Ranked #33 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." Village Voice (2/24/98)
- Ranked #9 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. NME (Magazine)
(12/20-27/97, pp.78-79)
- Ranked #15 in NME's 1997 Critic's Poll. NME (Magazine)
(9/20/97, p.54)
- 9 (out of 10)
- "...her third solo album, HOMOGENIC, is probably her most weird, it is also her best....It is here...that Bjork has delivered her most emotional, highly-charged and groovy record, as well as a stinging triumph for the spirit of adventure." |
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