Ice-String Tribute To Bjork (2001) ( )

Artist: Various Artists
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Label: Vitamin
UPC: 00027297858725
Release Date: 7/31/2001
Buy.com Sku: 60489981
Item#: MTH2TM
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. All Is Full Of Love ~ Various Artists
2. Joga ~ Various Artists
3. Army Of Me ~ Various Artists
4. Venus As A Boy ~ Various Artists
5. Bachelorette ~ Various Artists
6. Come To Me ~ Various Artists
7. Hunter ~ Various Artists
8. You've Been Flirting Again ~ Various Artists
9. Human Behavior ~ Various Artists
10. Big Time Sensuality ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Performers: Pam Jacobson, J'anna Jacoby, Eric Gorfain (violin); Tom Tally (viola); Steve Velez, Richard Dodd (cello); Fred Charlton (bass).
Producers: Jim McMillen, Karel Marik, Milos "Dodo" Dolezal, Eric Gorfain.
Tributee: Bj?rk.
Personnel: Eric Gorfain, J'Anna Jacoby, Pam Jacobson (violin); Tom Tally (viola); Richard Dodd, Steve Velez (cello).
Audio Mixer: Eric Gorfain.
Recording information: Studio Hacienda.
Arrangers: Eric Gorfain; Jim McMillen; Richard Dodd.
Ice is an instrumental tribute to the music of Bj?rk. It features ten tracks culled from the Icelandic performer's post-Sugarcubes output, focusing specifically on material from Debut, Post, and Homogenic. What's remarkable -- or perhaps unremarkable -- is the ease with which many of these songs are translated to violin, viola, cello, and bass. Bj?rk is one of the few artists working successfully within the increasingly narrow parameters of popular music while accessing multiple genres and influences. This means that her music is as likely to feature drum programming as it is a full section of reeds. That said, Homogenic's "Joga" appears here, stripped of the stippling drum'n'bass that skittered across the surface of the strings in the original. Instead, unadorned violin and viola employ the full emotional range of the melody. A bass stalks the bottom end of "Army of Me" as eerie reverb and chorus effects make the violins sound like carrion birds calling to one another from the parapets. And Debut's "Big Time Sensuality and "Human Behavior" end up resembling the more urgent material from Bj?rk's later solo efforts. An example of this is "Bachelorette." The original crossed its hissing, crackling electronics with a plaintive string section. The Ice version removes the beats and the vocal, but retains the strings. Like "Joga," "Bachelorette"'s sad, sweeping melody is rendered beautifully by the symphonic arrangement. While Ice was not endorsed by the artist herself, the album is such a success that it could stand next to Bj?rk's own Telegram remix LP as a document of her songs' limitless potential for sonic exploration. ~ Johnny Loftus

Engineer: Frank Scarpelli

 
Compilation Appearances
Nightmare Revisited
Vitamin String Quartet Coldplay's Viv

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 07/31/2001
Original Release Date : 2001
Catalog ID : 8587
Label : Vitamin Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00027297858725

  
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