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DrawingRestraint9
Released 25 July 2005
Recorded 2004
Length 0:52:03
Producers Björk
Mark Bell
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Label
One Little Indian Records
discography


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. TitleWriter(s) Length
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
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]

References[]

  1. No restraint, 2006
  2. Drawing Restraint 9 (liner notes), 2005.
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