Björk’s next album to deal with... apes?!

BJÖRK TO RECONSTRUCT OUR ORIGINS THROUGH GORILLAS, ORANGUTANS, GIBBONS AND SIAMANGS

After Utopia where Björk embodied the idyllic concept of a harmonious coexistence between nature and human based on empathy to start anew, she’s now going all the way into the opposite direction, flying back in time when humans diverged from chimpanzees between 9.3 and 6.5 million years ago, AP News reports.

“We evolved from an ancestor who was different and much stronger from any currently living species”, says Björk. “What humans are capable of creating together has always inspired me greatly. We put apes in space but we also invented cruel things, like stone tranchets and flint knifes just to kill each other. This is when we are reduced to a savage animal-like state.”

The Icelandic songstress, who’s now 59, is cryptic on details about her new material as it is still in its early stage and she doesn’t want to jinx it before it is finished. But she’s passionate about Sidi Bou Saïd, the Tunisian place she recently returned from after a well-deserved vacation.

“I met this boy while I was there who showed me his wonderful collection of stones and told me stories of this prehistoric beach called Terra Amata, where you can trace of some of the earliest domestication of fire. So now I’m trying to extrapolate that early restraint and development concept of making your own tools in order to survive into my beats”.

But where do macaques even enter in this new musical adventure?

Björk giggles, poking out her tongue and answers scientifically: “The origins of human speech are obscure vowel sounds. Speech and language do not fossilize. Monkeys could talk like humans; they just lack the brain power. They have potential to make all five vowel sounds which form the basis of human language. I’m not trying to be the Jane Goodall of music, but I’ll be sure having fun pinpointing areas of evenness and unevenness across the vocal repertoires of our closest living relatives”.

“I guess I’m trying to find the middle ground between the domestic side I explored in Vespertine and the two root sides I dug in Medúlla and Fossora. This probably will be my musicalized homo sapiens sci-fi romp”, she concluded.