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Björk

Jo chats to the iconic Icelandic musician Björk about her new album 'Fossora'.

Jo chats to the iconic Icelandic musician Björk about her new album 'Fossora'.

‘Fossora’ is Björk’s upcoming 10th album, out September 30th, and is the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Utopia’.

Speaking about the album, Björk says: 'each album always starts with a feeling that I try to shape into sound. This time around, the feeling was landing on the earth and digging my feet into the ground.

'It was also woven into how i experienced the 'now'. This time around, seven billion of us did it togethe,r nesting in our homes quarantining long enough in one place that we shot down roots.

'My new album 'fossora' is about that. It is a word I made up. It is the feminine of fossore (digger, delver, ditcher), so in short it means 'she who digs' (into the ground).'

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Sep 202219:30
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Björk

    It's Oh So Quiet

    • The Best Album In The World Ever!(Va).
    • Virgin.

  • Self Esteem

    Wizardry (Block Them Edit)

    • Fiction Records.

  • Lady Blackbird

    Feel It Comin

    • Black Acid Soul (Deluxe Edition).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Chris Isaak

    Wicked Games

    Remix Artist: Trentemøller.
    • Wild At Heart (Original S/Track).
    • London.

  • Beyoncé

    Love On Top

    • 4.
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • We Are Scientists

    Operator Error

  • Amy Winehouse

    Back To Black

    • Back To Black.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd..

  • Björk

    Venus As A Boy

    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Björk

    Ovule

    • fossora.
    • One Little Independent Records.
    • 002.

  • Calvin Harris

    Stay With Me (feat. Justin Timberlake, Halsey & Pharrell Williams)

    • Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2.
    • Columbia.

  • Björk

    Hyperballad

    • One Little Indian.

  • Björk

    Sorrowful Soil

    • One Little Independent.

  • Björk

    Ancestress

    • Fossora.
    • One Little Independent.

  • Björk

    Big Time Sensuality (Fluke Minimix)

    Remix Artist: Fluke.
    • Brit Awards 1994 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • The Sugarcubes

    Birthday

    • INCredible Sound Of Jo Whiley.
    • INCredible.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Sep 202219:30
    BBC Radio 2