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Army of Two.(Tori Amos and Bjork)
By the time Tori Amos was thirty, she had been through several drafts of a career. A child piano prodigy, she was the youngest person ever to attend the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore. (She was five when she auditioned.) In her early twenties, she was the lone woman in a rock band called Y Kant Tori Read. (The group released a single album, which sold fewer than ten thousand copies.) In 1992, after some wrangling with Atlantic Records, whose executives were apparently dubious about the commercial potential of what they called "this girl-at-her-piano thing," she released a solo album, "Little Earthquakes," on which she sang about Christianity, body image, and, ...
- Bjork and the beats behind 'Volta'.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 9, 2007 700+ words
...Every few years, Icelandic singer Bjork emerges with a new album that...he sounds conservative next to Bjork's otherworldliness. That...the Timbaland co-production "Earth Intruders." Bjork takes the tribal beat and transforms...
- Bjork's entrancing, estranging 'Volta'.(Sound recording review)
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 11, 2007 700+ words
...fi parade anthems ("Earth Intruders"), tear-down-the...mischievous streak to Bjork; when she's good...collaboration with Timbaland on "Earth Intruders" is a truly warped state...Coachella Festival, Bjork showcased "Volta...
- Bjork: ever wonder where all the great experimenters went? Where all the...
- Magazine article from: Interview Anthony August 1, 2007 700+ words
Bjork has been called the world...Dancer in the Dark (2000)? Bjork's latest album, Volta...percussion-driven tune called "Earth Intruders," and a song that uses a...and living passionately. BJORK: I haven't read all the...
- Bjork's anthem is a rallying cry: Be yourself.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 14, 2007 700+ words
...handful of concerts the Icelandic singer Bjork is performing in North America this year...every song, from the rallying cry "Earth Intruders" to delicate ballads such as "Venus...bass lines became more pronounced, and Bjork stomped through the grime as if marching...
- Bjork doesn't just make art--she lives it.(Cover story)
- Magazine article from: Interview Augustyniak, Mathias Amzalag, Michael June 1, 2009 700+ words
...commitment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But Bjork knows that doing visionary work often takes...psychedelically induced or otherwise. But in Bjork's case, it means that the artist...why it's essential to the art of being Bjork. As an artist, one of Bjork's greatest...
- Bjork to the Future; Everybody's favorite swan-wearing Icelandic superstar...
- Magazine article from: Harper's Bazaar Forrest, Emma September 1, 2001 700+ words
...conference room, the musician and actress Bjork squeals, "Oh yay! A picnic!" and digs...wear on her feet. From the moment that Bjork appeared on the cultural radar as frontwoman...Festival. At the Academy Awards last March, Bjork sang "I've Seen It All" from the soundtrack...
- Bjork should have listened to voice of reason with `Medulla'.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Moon, Tom September 8, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Tom Moon Maybe Bjork is still under Lars von Trier's spell...a fawning profile in the New Yorker. Bjork says "Medulla's" setting, populated...brain," is, as advertised, a tour of Bjork's interior phantasmagoria. It's...
- Bjork should have listened to voice of reason with `Medulla'.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) September 7, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Tom Moon Maybe Bjork is still under Lars von Trier's spell...a fawning profile in the New Yorker. Bjork says "Medulla's" setting, populated...brain," is, as advertised, a tour of Bjork's interior phantasmagoria. It's...
