Original Language: Several
Translation: Blanca Gago
Year of publication: 2024
Valoración: Recommended, especially for fans
That Björk Gudmundsdottir is one of the most peculiar artists of recent times is something out of any doubt. Singer, composer, actress, “performer” or DJ, the Iceland Reinventions
The book that we bring to Ulad today is an approach to these mutations through a chronological tour of texts appeared in the press on the occasion of the publication of his official study discs, from the one who came to light in his native Iceland when Björk He was barely 11 years old to Fossora.
Therefore, journalistic articles, reviews and interviews, fundamentally, to build a kind of fragmentary biography of an artist who, as Jesús Rocamora says, It is already a carnivorous plant that assimilates its collaborators after ingesting them to sound to itself. O, quoting Carlos Pérez de Ziza, An openly lacking mind, prey to an omnivorous instinct.
That said, it would be absurd to deny so much that we are facing a volume especially for fans and the unequal interest that arouses some texts and others or certain reiterations that penalize the whole. But its fragmentarity and the wide temporary space that covers the book to other themes and other readings not so closely linked to the artist’s work. Thus, the reflections on the functioning and changes in the music industry of the last 30-40 years are interesting, about the role of women in it, about the motivations for changes, etc. In addition, Björk does not cut and speaks of love, ruptures, politics, environment and, last but not least, of his “relationship” with that other flipado of life that is Lars von Trier.
Not just that. The book as “object” is gorgeous. The format, the lid, the roof, the interior design, the graphic section, the paper, etc. Come on, that you can give it to your in -laws or brothers -in -law and to throw in the trash (from a fade time) those planet awards with which they “decorate” their shelves.
Finally, and I think this is one of the best compliments that can be made to a book about music or about a musician: during (and after) his reading enter tremendous desire to listen to Björk’s records, to get back Post u Homogenic. Come, everyone to give the spotify!
Meanwhile, a bjork video:
Source: https://unlibroaldia.blogspot.com/2025/02/vvaa-bjork-una-constante-mutacion.html
