Interview on the occasion of getting the Polar Music Prize
Bjork.com has a news item:
Björk and Ennio Morricone are awarded the 2010 Polar Music Prize.
"The Polar Music Prize 2010 is being awarded to Icelandic artist Björk. With her deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice, Björk has already made an indelible mark on pop music and modern culture at large, despite her relative youth. No other artist moves so freely between avant-garde and pop. With her albums and videos, Björk has taken avant-garde to the top of the charts. She has also always embraced technological advances, combining computers with ancient sounds. Björk has introduced an arctic temperament to popular music and shown how passionate and explosive it can be. Björk is an untameable force of nature, an artist who marches to nobody’s tune but her own."
An interview with Björk appeared in the Swedish newspaper Expressen on May 17: "Queen Björk." It's in Swedish. I wonder if she speaks Swedish herself, she might. Aren't Icelandic and Swedish closely related, Icelandic being a more archaic language with cases etc.? So it shouldn't be too hard to speak Swedish for an Icelander probably. Anyway, I don't speak or read Swedish unfortunately but you can use the Google Translate site to obtain an approximation of a translation into English... It's not perfect but it's servicable. By the way, "Björk" of course gets translated literally into "Birch"... Interesting as always.
Björk and Ennio Morricone are awarded the 2010 Polar Music Prize.
"The Polar Music Prize 2010 is being awarded to Icelandic artist Björk. With her deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice, Björk has already made an indelible mark on pop music and modern culture at large, despite her relative youth. No other artist moves so freely between avant-garde and pop. With her albums and videos, Björk has taken avant-garde to the top of the charts. She has also always embraced technological advances, combining computers with ancient sounds. Björk has introduced an arctic temperament to popular music and shown how passionate and explosive it can be. Björk is an untameable force of nature, an artist who marches to nobody’s tune but her own."
An interview with Björk appeared in the Swedish newspaper Expressen on May 17: "Queen Björk." It's in Swedish. I wonder if she speaks Swedish herself, she might. Aren't Icelandic and Swedish closely related, Icelandic being a more archaic language with cases etc.? So it shouldn't be too hard to speak Swedish for an Icelander probably. Anyway, I don't speak or read Swedish unfortunately but you can use the Google Translate site to obtain an approximation of a translation into English... It's not perfect but it's servicable. By the way, "Björk" of course gets translated literally into "Birch"... Interesting as always.