![]() ![]() Around the same time, Björk fell in with a bunch of surrealist punk poets called Medúsa. They were followed by an assortment of outfits encompassing jazz fusion and bar covers before she settled with playful, musically ambitious post-punkers Tappi Tíkarrass, who left behind an EP, Bitið Fast í Vitið, and an album, Miranda. Her first band was the all-female punk Spit And Snot, in which she played the drums. ![]() Refusing the offer to make a second album with the same team, she instead bought a piano with the proceeds and fleeing into the arms of punk. She’d only written one song, the instrumental ‘Jóhannes Kjarval’, and felt that the record label, Fálkinn, saw her as a novelty. The record, which came about after she covered Tina Charles’s ‘I Love To Love (But My Baby Loves To Dance)’ for a local radio documentary about her music school, was a success, but not, for Björk, an unqualified one. Ten years before it made her world-famous, 18-year-old Björk was a founder member of Reykjavík art-anarchists Kukl, and even then, she’d already been a key player in Iceland’s punk scene for several years, after releasing her true debut album, Björk, at the age of 11. To really understand Björk’s world, you have to be aware that Debut, released in 1993, was no real debut. And like any sensible utopian, Björk has shaped her ideals for living over years of experience and experimentation… What could be more real, in her reasoning, than the transformative power of music, of connection, of desire? That’s the meaning, after all, of Utopia, the title of her forthcoming ninth album a dream or an ideal that guides and shapes our behaviour in the world. Over the years, with witless words such as “zany”, “wacky” and “kooky” always snapping at her heels, she became begrudgingly accustomed to her role as Empress of the Odd, and to people waiting, as she put it in 1997, “for antennae to pop out of your forehead." Still, even though she’s spent the past few years sometimes quite literally sporting those antennae thanks to James Merry’s headpiece designs, Björk still sees her work, outlandish as it may seem to some, as firmly grounded in reality. ![]() “I am 21 years old and I have been fighting all my life for being looked at as normal. “It’s so painful to hear that I’m a freak in people’s eyes,” she told Melody Maker’s Chris Roberts in 1987. At first, Björk didn’t really understand why others saw her world as strange. ![]()
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