björk : sorrowful soil (live) [tour visual] (UHD) [4K] [surrounded]

for me, "sorrowful soil" and "ancestress" are the 2 songs on 'fossora' written for my mother ... 'ancestress' is my take on funeral-music but 'sorrowful soil' is written 2 years before and mirrors more that last chapter .

at the time i had been working with the fantastic 'hamrahlið choir' and wanted to give them the piece they deserved , and with that intention unknowingly wrote what the conductor þorgerður ingólfsdóttir, said was the most difficult piece they ever sang . it has 9 voices, not the usual 4 ( sopran, alt, teno , bass ) which took the choir evenings of a whole summer to rehearse, i am so incredibly grateful to them for this sacrifice and you can hear all of it in the recording

the lyric is an attempt for an eulogy and instead of the dry fact checking : place of birth , job , marriage , i wanted to celebrate the biological data like the fact that most girls are born with 400 eggs ... and then in their lifetime they make 2-3 nests ...
when my grandfather passed away there was a pamphlet at the hospital advising relatives how to talk to loved ones before they pass away . i loved how it went really generic and universal and said that all of them will give families to-do-lists (dry-cleaning and such)
but also ask if they did well .
the last part of the lyric is following this advice .

warmth ,

[björksurrounded]

for me, "sorrowful soil" and "ancestress" are the 2 songs on 'fossora' written for my mother ... 'ancestress' is my take on funeral-music but 'sorrowful soil' is written 2 years before and mirrors more that last chapter .

at the time i had been working with the fantastic 'hamrahlið choir' and wanted to give them the piece they deserved, and with that intention unknowingly wrote what the conductor þorgerður ingólfsdóttir, said was the most difficult piece they ever sang . it has 9 voices, not the usual 4 ( sopran, alt, teno, bass ) which took the choir evenings of a whole summer to rehearse, i am so incredibly grateful to them for this sacrifice and you can hear all of it in the recording

the lyric is an attempt for an eulogy and instead of the dry fact checking : place of birth, job, marriage, i wanted to celebrate the biological data like the fact that most girls are born with 400 eggs ... and then in their lifetime they make 2-3 nests ...
when my grandfather passed away there was a pamphlet at the hospital advising relatives how to talk to loved ones before they pass away . i loved how it went really generic and universal and said that all of them will give families to-do-lists (dry-cleaning and such)
but also ask if they did well .
the last part of the lyric is following this advice .

warmth,

björk .


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[Sea_Slug_Magic]

beautiful Bjork song, she did it did did did did it again - beautiful song beautiful lava. thank you.