"For me it is a philosophical matter, how nature and technology can coexist amicably": Björk announces physical release of Orkestral concert

The concert was recorded as part of Björk's series of Orkestral performances at Harpa in 2021, a project built around her return to music through orchestration rather than spectacle, stripping back the visual worlds of her larger productions. Across her four Orkestral concerts at Harpa, more than one hundred Icelandic musicians took part. Proceeds from the original concert series supported Kvennaathvarfið, a women's shelter in Reykjavík

For the concert, Björk is accompanied by Hamrahlíðarkórinn — the Hamrahlíð Choir — conducted by founder and collaborator Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir. The performance mainly draws from Medúlla (2004) and explores the possibilities of the human voice, nature, technology and new forms of musical collaboration.

"I am so happy and proud of this concert," Björk says. "We all put enormous love, energy and time into it. I have learned slowly through the years about the juxtaposition of voices and the electronic. For me it is a philosophical matter, how nature and technology can coexist amicably. I got an opportunity to learn how to get this balance just right through extensive rehearsals in the space we got in covid. It is often easier for me to do this on the recordings, but here we did it physically live."