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Dirty Projectors, Björk - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Expanded Edition) (2011/2023)

Posted By: Rtax
Date: 12 Jul 2023 20:53:44
Dirty Projectors, Björk - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Expanded Edition) (2011/2023)

Dirty Projectors, Björk - Mount Wittenberg Orca (Expanded Edition) (2011/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 345 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 152 MB
1:03:18 | Electronic, Downtempo, Vocal, Ethereal | Label: Domino Recording Co

Mount Wittenberg Orca is named so because it is about whales, it was inspired by events on Mt. Wittenberg in California, and because it elaborates on David Longstreth's obsession with vocal harmony introduced on Dirty Projectors' 2009 album Bitte Orca. This seven-song, twenty-one minute collection is the first original music the band has recorded since Bitte Orca, and it feels more like a small album than an EP. It is also their most staggering collaboration yet — with the Icelandic artist Björk.

The music — originally written to be performed unamplified in a small Manhattan bookstore — was guided by a conversation between Longstreth and Björk about the small theaters in Italy where opera was born in the 1500s. The recording was informed by the simple, direct feel of early rock & roll recordings from the '50s. The band and Björk rehearsed for three days at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, and then recorded the songs as quickly and as live as possible, overdubbing only lead vocals and solos. The result feels like part children's story, part choral music from some strange future.

It's unlike anything else in the Projectors' body of work: Nat Baldwin's bass is massive and lumbering, like the silhouette of some undersea creature. Drums and guitars, so crucial to the songs on Bitte Orca, are all but absent. Instead, it's all about voices — and the voices are astonishing. Longstreth, sharing lead vocal duties with Björk, exudes a limber confidence. The Projectors women Amber Coffman, Angel Deradoorian and Haley Dekle sound beautiful and virtuosic. And Björk, seismic and elemental as always, sounds fresh in this new context, singing lead on half the songs.

This record is a triumph for Björk and for Dirty Projectors. It merges the energy and rawness of the band's live shows with the intricate arrangement and delicate beauty of Bitte Orca, and seems to do it effortlessly. Björk abides as a kind of artistic patron saint, sharing the spotlight rather than dominating it. Her mix of sophistication and emotion, of composition and instantaneity, has become the blueprint for a generation of creative musicians — and with Mount Wittenberg Orca, Dirty Projectors prove themselves at the forefront of that generation.

Tracklist
1 - Ocean [2:09]
2 - On and Ever Onward [2:01]
3 - When the World Comes to an End [3:08]
4 - Beautiful Mother [2:16]
5 - Sharing Orb [2:48]
6 - No Embrace [4:14]
7 - All We Are [4:43]
8 - Intro (Live from Housing Works 2009) [2:16]
9 - Ocean (Live from Housing Works 2009) [1:14]
10 - On and Ever Onward (Live from Housing Works 2009) [2:21]
11 - When the World Comes to an End (Live from Housing Works 2009) [2:27]
12 - Beautiful Mother (Live from Housing Works 2009) [1:59]
13 - Sharing Orb (Live from Housing Works 2009) [2:25]
14 - No Embrace (Live from Housing Works 2009) [3:03]
15 - All We Are (Live from Housing Works 2009) [3:39]
16 - Wave Invocation (MWO I Inverness Demo) [1:16]
17 - Motherwhale Song (MWO II Inverness Demo) [2:11]
18 - Whale Watcher Song (MWO III Inverness Demo) [1:54]
19 - Fugal Swim (MWO IV Inverness Demo) [2:02]
20 - First Duet (MWO V Inverness Demo) [2:13]
21 - Migration (Unfinished MWO VI Inverness Demo) [1:13]
22 - Jubilation (MWO VII Inverness Demo) [2:19]
23 - Benediction (MWO VIII Inverness Demo) [2:32]
24 - When the World Comes to an End (Freewrite Demo) [0:32]
25 - When the World Comes to an End (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough) [2:46]
26 - Beautiful Mother (Vocalise Rehearsal Rough) [1:03]
27 - On and Ever Onward (Full Rehearsal Rough) [2:37]
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