On her birthday, we remember one of her most successful works that catapulted her to fame.
Today, November 21is the date of Björk’s birthdayone of the most important artists of recent times. The Icelandic, who marked a different path in music with a style that mixed different influences and roots, made her official presentation to the world with Debut.
The singer had already been known for a long time: she had launched her first self-titled project with just 12 yearsand made a name for herself in the industry as the vocalist of The Sugarcubesan alternative rock group that lived from the mid-80s until the beginning of the following decade. It was precisely with the dissolution of the band that Björk He found a window to start his solo career.
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“Debut”, Bjork’s revolutionary first album as a solo artist
In case anyone had any doubts, Björk clarifies it from the title. In a kind of clean slate, She wanted that work to be her debut, and what she had in her hands was worthy of a rebirth.. The project was launched in 1993a year marked by the first hints of what would be the contribution of electronic music to the rest of the genres.
But Debut It never stays in one place. The album, which has 11 songsmoves between electronic pop, techno, the nascent trip-hop, jazz and house. On the album you can see songs like “Human Behavior”the introductory piece to the strange and fascinating world of Björk, with a samples of the iconic Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim and a lyric inspired by the naturalist David Attemboroughwritten from the perspective of an animal.
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The work reaches another of its best-known cuts, called “Venus As A Boy”a Bollywood-style trip-hop with Indian influences, like the producer Talvin Singh. There is also room for dancing, as in “There’s More to Life Than This” -recorded from the bathrooms of London’s Milky Bar to capture the essence of the nightclubs- and “Big Time Sensuality”. In the middle of the album we come across “Like Someone In Love”a pleasant surprise in the key of a jazz standard, which Björk recorded with the harpist Corky Hale.
Produced by Nelle Hooper, Debut It rose to third place on the British charts and reached number 61 on the United States charts.. In any case, over time it became one of their best-selling and most prestigious albums. On the other hand, many of the cuts on the album were accompanied by video clipswhich paint the universe that Björk seeks to show.
Bjork’s voice is impossible to skip. The games she plays with it, as well as the variety of ranges and expressions she uses, make the album an essential work to understand the Icelandic artist.
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A curious fact is that “play dead“, a song written by Björk with David Arnold and Jah Wooble for the film The Young Americans (1993) that was not included on the album, but was later part of all the reissues.
Source: Ambito
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