Björk Guðmundsdóttir, Wonderbrass Band & Jónas Sen are playing the final Volta concert @ Langholtskirkja (the Church of Langholt) 26. August. Doors @ 17:30 - Start of the Concert @ 18:00.It's the end of the Volta Tour who last 17 months. The concert will be recorded & put on a DVD.
There are only 300 seats in the Church. So be quick to get a ticket @ Midi www.midi.is:
Ticket sale starts @ 10:00 Monday 25. August.
Price: 6.000 IKR.
Organisation by Hr. Örlygur (Mr. Destiny of Iceland Airwaves fame).
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On the official Björk site http://www.bjork.com/ a message of Björk herself, about credits of her albums. @ the end of her Tour around the World, she found the time to read Icelandic papers:
Time to Put it Right
I saw in the last issue of Iceland's newspaper in English: “Grapevine”, www.grapevine.is, that Valgeir Sigurðsson was credited for having written all the instrumentals for my album Vespertine. Could I please offer a correction:
I have noticed last 7 years that mr. Sigurðsson has often been credited for either writing or producing that album. Id like to say that he didn´t write it or produce. He was a computer programmer for a third of it and a recording engineer for a third. The other two thirds were done by other engineers and programmers.
I don´t understand where that misunderstanding has come from.
Could be one of four options:
1: The pop critics of this world have not totally yet worked out the difference between engineering, programming, writing and producing electronic music. Visually this appears very similar. A man/woman sitting in front of a computer . Not as different as for example a drummer, a brass arranger and an engineer. But these are 3 completely different jobs which journalists must start to see the difference.
2: It could be that this is some degree of sexism. m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website www.pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing, it just had to be, it couldn´t have been m.i.a. herself ! It feels like still today after all these years people cannot imagine that woman can write, arrange or produce electronic music . I have had this experience many many times that the work I do on the computer gets credited to whatever male was in 10 meter radius during the job. People seem to accept that women can sing and play whatever instrument they are seen playing. But they cannot program, arrange, produce, edit or write electronic music.
3 : I´ll admit that one thing could confuse things: people have to use their ears and actually read the creditlist to get this information. All the music I have made: like for example string arrangements, synthbasslines or programming of electronic patterns , I never play myself live because I want to give 100% of myself into the singing I either ask the computers to play it or I get other musicians to play it. This could confuse things.
4: One thing that could have kept this misunderstanding alive is that neither me nor Valgeir Sigurðsson have bothered to correct it.
But I am doing it now.
I hope this correction will be a positive input into more discussion about this.
Warmth
Björk.
P.S. Just read that Pitchfork.com credited Nico Muhly for the choir arrangement of “Hidden Place” from Vespertine. Also that he has done string arrangements for me. This is not true.
Journalists: please read the creditlist before you write your articles.
Do the Björk - Sugarcubes song "Birthday" covered by the Japanese singer Chitose Hajime (born 5. January 1979 - famous for her falsetto)
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