Next, via “Crying,” we see the London big city life through the eyes and ears of our impressionable 20-something, perhaps isolated or confused by her new home: “I travel all around the city / Go in and out of locomotives / All alone / There’s no one here / And people everywhere.” Its engine is a four-on-the-floor dance rhythm and hummable dun- dahhhhhhhhhhhhh melody. It hikes to an emotional peak with the singer chanting about just how fucked up, moody and insane we all are. This is how we welcome solo, adult Björk to the world. It opens with “Human Behavior,” a mysterious jam written when Björk was just a teenager, sounding as if mined from the depths of the Amazon Jungle or the Arctic North - both? - with tribal drums and clanging ice flutes.
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The 11 tracks for Debut were pulled together in studios from London to Mumbai to Los Angeles, with engineer Marius de Vries also helping Björk mold her songs with a modern vision, one full of synths, electronics and studio wizardry. Enter Nellee Hooper, esteemed producer behind artists like Sinead O’Connor and Massive Attack. Hooper, who would go on to work with megastars like U2 and Madonna, brought a steady pop sheen - one Björk was initially hesitant to embrace – to the variety of sounds here, tying an otherwise deeply chaotic album into something that flows up, down, all over the place, but all together at once. Burke* (tracks: A5), N.So, Björk left for England, where she reveled in the late-‘80s/early-‘90s dance scene, and cut demos with Graham Massey of Manchester electronic outfit 808 State. At the same time, she indulged her love of other forms of music, recording jazz standards with harpist/composer Corky Hale (including “I Remember You” and an early version of “Like Someone in Love”). But these eclectic sounds all called for an element of consistency, a bowtie over the box. Gudmundsdottir* (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B6), D.
Producer – Björk (tracks: B5), Danny Cannon (tracks: B6), David Arnold (tracks: B6), Nellee Hooper (tracks: A1 to B4).Photography By – Jean Baptiste Mondino*.Keyboards, Programmed By – Garry Hughes, Marius de Vries, Martin Virgo, Paul Waller.Engineer – Andy Bradford, Goetz Botzenhardt, Jim Bob, Jon Mallison, Mark Warner (3), Oggy, Pete Lewis, Tim Dickenson.Shallah*, Howie Bernstein, Hugo Nicolson, Jim Abbiss, Nellee Hooper, Paul Corkett, Paul Werthelmer* Engineer – Al Stone, Brian Pugsley, Dave Burnham, H.Drums, Percussion – Bruce Smith, Luis Jardim, Nellee Hooper.Co-producer – Björk (tracks: A5), Nellee Hooper (tracks: A5).Brass – Gary Barnacle, Mike Mower, Oliver Lake.
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