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Medúlla
[Barclay]
Breathing, panting, gruntings, scrapings, whistlings are as many effects that are surrounding Björk's voice and allow it to get rid of all instruments, making of "Medúlla" a really organic album. It's like if the diva needed to prove that the beauty of her previous opuses didn't only rest upon the subtle arrangements made by prodigies like Howie B. and Mark Bell. But here, the work on the "vocal" accompaniment is so impressive that it's not really wise to talk of "a capella" performance, the gifted people who surround Björk (Robert Wyatt, Rhazel (The Roots), Mike Patton (Faith No More), the Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, Shlomo or the Japanese Dokaka) create a surprising instrumentation. In the end, the result isn't really successful, because, even if "Medúlla" is another chosen piece to add to Björk's discography, her performance seems a bit lazy, and is only saved by her colleagues' work and the production (Matmos, Mark Bell, Mark 'Spike' Tent) who give to the whole an amazing charm.
Christophe Labussière |
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