Drawing Restraint 9

An 11 track soundtrack composed by Björk with minimal vocals for celebrated contemporary visual artist Matthew Barney's next film “Drawing restraint 9”, in which she also appears.
The soundtrack orientates itself around the traditional music forms of Japan as the film was shot in Nagasaki Bay onboard a whaling ship. The opening sequence, sung by Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy), sets out the folk-culture roots of whaling, and the barbed political history in which those drowned.
Björk has written a suite of haunting music for the sho, one of the oldest instruments in Japanese culture with seventeen reeds and fifteen distinct pipes.
It is performed by Mayumi Miayata, one of the world's foremost sho players.
Björk also worked with scholars of the Noh theatre to produce new musical settings, incorporating the low, growling vocal techniques of traditional Japanese court entertainment.
Mass international media coverage expected of the film and Björk and Matthew's appearances in Japan and at The Venice Film Festival.
This album is available to pre-order. All orders will be dispatched ahead of the 25th July 2005 official release date.

Drawing Restraint 9 Tracklisting And Some MP3 Samples

Track 1: Gratitude
Track 2: Pearl
Track 3: Ambergris March
Track 4: Bath
Track 5: Hunter Vessel
Track 6: Shimenawa
Track 7: Vessel Shimenawa
Track 8: Storm
Track 9: Holographic Entrypoint
Track 10: Cetacea
Track 11: Antarctic Return


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