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Bjork Beats Boxes
July 16, 2004

Bjork has confirmed her fifth studio album, Medulla, will be released on August 30. The 14-track album features Bjork singing over rhythms performed by voice artists, or Beatboxers.
These include Japanese beat box artist Dokaka as well as Shlomo and former Roots member Rahzel. According to Billboard, other guests include former Faith No More singer Mike Patton, singer-songwriter Robert Wyatt, classical vocalist Gregory Purnhagen, Inuit throat singer Tagaq and the Icelandic and London Choirs.

This quote apparently comes from an interview in W magazine. I guess it isn't in the Online version, or I can't find it. Nasty little website!

"We could be in a cave somewhere and one person would start singing, and another person would sing a beat and then the next person sing a melody, and you could just kind of be really happy in your cave."

Nice idea using other ethnic vocal styles with hip-hop but where's Sheila Chandra? She started using vocal percussion techniques in 1983 with the release of her Out On My Own album, 2 years after Monsoon's "Ever So Lonely".

I wondered why my various blog pages were loading slowly yesterday. I guess it was to do with the improvements being made to the post editing interface at Blogger. Jolly good it is too. If only they would include a target="_blank" button though... I'm sick of putting those in! I still haven't got the Permalink's working as they should either. I keep getting a # followed by a number where I want the blog title followed by a .htm tag... I'll try again tonight.

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