Michael Martin

Michael Martin

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Entrevista con Björk

Entrevista con Björk

Es la hora del café y platico con la ninfa musical favorita de muchos. La conversación ha tornado hacia festivales, canciones francesas para niños y la vida después del apocalipsis. Björk ha ganado corazones y mentes con su original cosmovisión, su rareza santoral y los ocasionales flashes de paparazzis noqueados. Ahora de 52 años continúa no solo empujando los límites, sino que los destruye.  De niña empezó como una cantante en su nativa Islandia. Se salió de la banda The Sugarcubes en los ochenta para convertirse en superestrella durante los noventa con sus discos Debut (1993) y Post (1995). Cubriendo sonidos del jazz, electrónica y shows de Broadway, estos establecieron una plantilla para su singularmente inventiva carrera. Desde aquel entonces ha lanzado ocho álbumes de estudio, casi todos como un experimento salvaje, creando canciones con cuerdas altas, ritmos humanos y cajas musicales, y ninguno de ellos para ser cacharros o insulto a la inteligencia de la audiencia. Lanzado en enero de 2015, su último álbum, Vulnicura, es intrínseco, hermoso y más aún: un lazo de San Valentín manchado de sangre que describe su rompimiento con el artista visual y compañero de largo plazo Matthew Barney, en 2013. Pero— mientras me sirven más café en la oficina de su publicista en Nueva York— hay un pequeño trazo de melancolía. A pesar de ello es juguetona. Está portando un vestido de seda en rayas blanco y negro con solapas anchas; zigzags de arcoíris en el frente, como el forro de los á
The 50 coolest cheap wall art prints

The 50 coolest cheap wall art prints

You shouldn’t think of posters just as dorm-room home décor—you can find classy (and cheap!) wall art that will be a perfect fit for your grown-up NYC apartment. Inspired by the best paintings, classic movies and locals’ artwork, these 50 pieces of wall art would also make great gifts for artists—if you don’t take them all for yourself, of course.
Björk talk: the avant-pop queen on festivals, technology and how to get old

Björk talk: the avant-pop queen on festivals, technology and how to get old

It’s coffee time with Björk, everyone’s favourite elfin-alien-genius-song-nymph, and the conversation has turned to festivals, French children’s songs and life after the apocalypse. In other words, just what you might expect. Björk has won hearts and minds with her unique worldview, sartorial oddity and occasional flash of paparazzi-beating badassery. Now 49, she continues to not just push boundaries but demolish them. Having started out as a child singer in her native Iceland, she broke out with indie band The Sugarcubes in the ’80s, then went full-on superstar in the ’90s with solo albums ‘Debut’ and ‘Post’. Covering electronica, jazz and Broadway show tunes, they set the template for a singularly inventive career. She has released six studio albums since, almost all of them wildly experimental (crafting songs around soaring strings, human beat machines, plinking music boxes) and not one of them a clunker or an insult to its audience’s intelligence. (We recommend you soundtrack this interview with our playlist of the best Björk songs.) Released in January, her latest album, ‘Vulnicura’, is intricate and beautiful and tough: a bloodstained-lace valentine that describes her break-up with visual artist and long-term partner Matthew Barney in 2013. But – as she pours me some coffee in her publicist’s office in New York and we start talking about her topping the bill at Wilderness festival this summer – there’s little trace of that melancholy. Instead, there’s playfulness. She’s