Ten years ago, an elfin-faced artist burst onto the international music scene, anything but quietly, as she sung It’s Oh So Quiet, her fingers pressed to her lips as she commanded listeners to ‘SSHHH’. It was, of course, Björk. The Iceland-born singer was already well-known abroad on the indie scene following a five-year stint with The Sugarcubes, but the success of her first solo album, Debut, catapulted her to international stardom and fuelled a world-wide fascination with the culture that had given rise to this peculiar musician, who snubbed her button-nose at mainstream pop.
Ultrasounds from Iceland
Contact mikes hidden in apples prior to devouring; kettles boiling and the sounds of coffee-making - the imaginative electronic compilations emerging from Iceland have stamped a uniqueness on the country's music industry. And a selection of these avant-garde musicians decend on Huddersfield this month for the Ultrasound Festival's Icelandic Partition. Programme curator Thor Magnusson explains how
19 Nov 2003
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