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The Music from Drawing Restraint 9 is a soundtrack created by Björk in collaboration with her then-partner Matthew Barney for his film of the same title. It was released on 25 July 2005.
Background[]
When I do my own music, I obviously am very very very deeply concerned that the music I do, that the root is from me, the trunk is from me, the branches are from me - that it's not borrowed from anywhere else. Now that I'm doing music that's set in Japan, Matthew wants the music to be based on original ancient Japanese music. I kind of got a license to go a lot further in basing something on something that musically already exists, than I would ever do for my own albums.[1]
For this project Björk traveled to Japan to study ancient Japanese music. Several tracks are made with the sound of the shō, a Japanese instrument which contains 16 various reeds.
Track listing[]
Original release[]
All songs written and composed by Björk, except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
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1. | "Gratitude" | Barney, Björk | 5:00 | |
2. | "Pearl" | 3:43 | ||
3. | "Ambergris March" | 4:04 | ||
4. | "Bath" | Björk, Akira Rabelais | 5:14 | |
5. | "Hunter Vessel" | 6:43 | ||
6. | "Shimenawa" | 2:55 | ||
7. | "Vessel Shimenawa" | 2:01 | ||
8. | "Storm" | Björk, Leila Arab | 5:38 | |
9. | "Holographic Entrypoint" | Barney | 10:04 | |
10. | "Cetacea" | Barney, Björk | 3:17 | |
11. | "Antarctic Return" | 4:23 | ||
Total length: |
52:03 |
DualDisc release (2006)[]
No. | Title | Length | |
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1. | "Gratitude" | 6:13 | |
2. | "Petrolatum" | 6:10 | |
3. | "Pearl" | 3:43 | |
4. | "Bath" | 5:07 | |
5. | "Hunter Vessel" | 6:36 | |
6. | "Shimenawa" | 2:48 | |
7. | "Vessel Shimenawa" | 1:54 | |
8. | "Storm" | 4:02 | |
9. | "Holographic Entrypoint" | 9:57 | |
10. | "Ambergris March" | 3:57 | |
11. | "Cetacea" | 3:13 | |
12. | "Antarctic Return" | 4:18 |
Trivia[]
- "Storm" was debuted at Björk's Greatest Hits Tour in 2003 as "Nameless."
- "Hunter Vessel" was sampled on two songs from Björk's 2007 album, Volta.: "Vertebrae By Vertebrae" and "Declare Independence".
- This album was recorded in several studios around the world: Wood Road Studio (New York), Looking Glass (New York), Greenhouse Studios (Reykjavik), Bi-Coastal Music (New York), Olympic Studios (London), and Victor Aoyama Studio (Tokyo).[2]