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Life, along with it its roots and consequences, is everywhere, motherhood -- Medulla was conceived as Bjork was preparing to give birth to her second child, Isadora -- murmuring throughout It is then a Sept I wanted to show those gentlemen that there are still insects crawling, people jumping in swimming pools, building houses, having children, making songs and having abstract thought processes or whatever On Mouth's Cradle this inspires equal measures of fight and flight as what at first seems a stroll through an enchanted forest ends in fear and loathing, Bjork seeking "an altar away from all Osamas and Bushes" as fractured cries fly from sources unseen, eventually drowning out all that once was First and foremost it was, we imagine, the larger Idea -- of why they were doing it and what they were about to inspire These voices aren't always so ominous, instead pounding like dizzy techno or, as on Triumph of the Heart -- the closer Bjork intended as a happy ending, playing with and against each other 11 album not simply in sentiment alone It was the Idea that rendered the direct result of their actions -- the loss of nearly 3,000 lives -- nearly symbolic and it's the Idea that's driven everything since, giving us Afghanistan, Iraq, the Patriot Act, Jessica Lynch, those elusive weapons of mass destruction, George Bush The War President, John Kerry The War Hero and, latest but certainly not least, Bjork's new album, Medulla As much as Bjork is reaching to expand her impressive oeuvre through artistic conceit, she is also distilling all of her many whims -- rock, pop, jazz, choral, classical and electronic -- down to the one thing that unifies them all, her voice; not just to say something of her, but something of everyone After Pleasure and Show Me Forgiveness, a solo that finds our star taking centre stage to lay bare the personal doubts that precede all that follows, she launches into Where Is the Line, a thunderous storm of hail and lightning (bluster courtesy of the Icelandic choir), with Rahzel's beats crashing and clapping up against everything else As such, there should be little left for Bjork to say; little more she could possibly do that hasn't been done But, of course, the Idea persists Not just a departure from her instrumentally copious last album, 2001's Vespertine, Medulla is meant as a departure from, well, everything "Something in me wanted to leave out civilization," she told the Independent, "to rewind to before it all happened and work out, 'Where is the human soul? What if we do without civilization and religion and patriotism, without the stuff that has gone wrong?' " More pointedly she told The Telegraph: "This album was supposed to be a response to 9/11 and all this rubbish But for all the forms it takes on, there is no escaping voice as the primary force, both as an artistic statement before a pop music landscape where Britney succeeds despite the lack of one (and Jessica thrives in spite of the opposite), and a political protest in the face of a culture that seems to demand fragmentation In all cases, Bjork ably and powerfully takes the fore, allowed a remarkable liberty to rise above all she has made, silenced only by Medulla's worst track, Submarine, which veers a little too enthusiastically toward Gregorian chanting In Bjork's case, this means restraint -- at least of the sort that might force her to find new freedom -- and so Medulla is an album crafted (almost) entirely from the human voice, though it sounds nothing like what you might expect from such a premise (see Ono, Yoko) And, as much as these results must (and do) succeed outside the initial concept, once successful they allow us to look beyond their specific virtues and come back to the Idea In short, the results become secondary to the Idea Bjork's war A vocal salvo against hopelessness and terrorism Aaron Wherry National Post Monday, August 30, 2004 1 | 2 | NEXT >> When Mohammed Atta and his gang of desperate young men awoke on Sept Vokuro -- an Icelandic choral arrangement and poem -- hearkens to one of Medulla's pet themes, namely the past and the universality thereof For great stretches it is possible to forget the trick -- Bjork, like a magician worthy of her wand, is able to make the sleight of hand seem supernatural, as she does with the album's first track, Pleasure is All Mine, pulling up her sleeves to disclose all the wonders therein " To pull off this reminder of baby making and cannonballing (and really is there anything in life more wonderful than such stuff?) and fill in the empty spaces where instruments would normally go without sounding "like Manhattan Transfer or Bobby McFerrin" -- a rule Bjork set down for herself early on -- she drafted a small army of musical misfits, including human beat boxes Rahzel, Shlomo and Dokaka, metalhead Mike Patton (late of Faith No More), Canadian Inuit throat-singer Tagaq, "human trombonist" Gregory Purnhagen, British pop eccentric Robert Wyatt and both the London and Icelandic choirs The sum of these disparate parts, save for a few maddening tangents, is magical 11, they were driven not by death and destruction As thousands of lives were destroyed three years ago for the sake of something bigger, Medulla lives and breathes not simply as a beautiful recording, but as a tangible example of greater hope A relative latecomer for a 9/11-inspired artistic statement, Medulla comes long after Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Toby Keith, Madonna and all the other usual and unusual suspects have picked through the rubble for any bit of scrap they might fashion into a three-and-a-half-minute expression of defiance That's at least 98% of what humans are doing out there Short has made dozens of record albums, published an autobiography and worked in movies and television Then he'll get back to New York Short was leaving the Louis Vuitton store on North Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills on Thursday when "he began to feel extremely weak," Wicks said Pianist Bobby Short Hospitalized Apr 19, 9:48 AM EST LOS ANGELES (AP) â€â€? Bobby Short checked himself into a hospital and canceled a pair of concerts after a weak spell during a Beverly Hills shopping trip, his publicist said Friday "He's going through an awful lot of tests," Wicks said "This just made it earlier "Some of them are very difficult But he's holding up just fine Short has had some health problems recently, Wicks said, though she wouldn't elaborate " Short was awake and alert at the hospital, but "very upset" he had to cancel the concerts, the first he's missed since he began his show business career at age 12, she said I believe they think he'll be there for another three or four days The 78-year-old pianist was in fair condition at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, publicist Virginia Wicks said He's been nominated for three Grammy Awards After arriving at his hotel, a physician advised him to go to the hospital He's never missed a gig, but had to cancel a pair of concerts Thursday and Friday at the private California Club in Los Angeles and the Cerritos Center in neighboring Orange County " The singer-pianist has been performing at New York's chic Cafe Carlyle for over 35 years, specializing in the sophisticated songs of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Noel Coward, Jimmy McHugh, Nacio Herb Brown and others "He was going to have some tests as soon as he finished (the performances in California)," Wicks said He was steadied by a friend, she said, but never lost consciousness |
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