Björk – Utopia
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One Little Indian – tplp1381 |
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UK & US |
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Genre: |
Pop |
Style: |
Ambient |
Tracklist
| A1 | Arisen My Senses | 5:01 | |
| A2 | Blissing Me | 5:04 | |
| A3 | The Gate | 6:34 | |
| B1 | Body Memory | 10:12 | |
| B2 | Losss | 7:13 | |
| C1 | Utopia | 4:45 | |
| C2 | Saint | 4:43 | |
| C3 | Courtship | 4:52 | |
| C4 | Sue Me | 4:57 | |
| D1 | Tabula Rasa | 4:42 | |
| D2 | Claimstaker | 3:19 | |
| D3 | Paradisia | 1:42 | |
| D4 | Features Creatures | 4:41 | |
| D5 | Future Forever | 4:46 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – One Little Indian Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Wellhart Ltd
- Copyright © – One Little Indian Ltd.
- Copyright © – Wellhart Ltd
- Published By – Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
- Published By – EMI April Music Inc.
- Published By – Copyright Control
- Lacquer Cut At – Black Saloon Studios
Credits
- Artwork [Cover Art], Photography By [Cover Photography] – Jesse Kanda
- Artwork [Cover Artwork Production By] – Juliette Larthe
- Artwork [Facepiece By] – James Merry
- Cello – Júlía Mogensen
- Choir – Hamrahliðarkórinn*
- Concept By [Conceived By] – Björk
- Conductor [Conducted By] – Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir
- Contrabass – Hávarður Tryggvason
- Cover [Cover Character] – Björk
- Creative Director [Assistant And Visual Co-creative Director] – James Merry
- Creative Director [Cover Artwork Creative Direction] – Jesse Kanda
- Creative Director [Inside/Back Artwork Creative Direction] – M/M (Paris)
- Electronics, Synth [Synth Melodies], Beats – Arca (4)
- Engineer – Chris Elms
- Engineer [Flute, Choir, Harp Recording Engineer] – Bergur Þórisson
- Engineer [Harp Recording Engineer] – Chris Elms
- Flute – Þuríður Jónsdóttir
- Hair [Hair By] – Raphael Salley
- Harp – Katie Buckley
- Lacquer Cut By – Mandy*
- Make-Up [Make-up By] – Hungry (5)
- Management [Björk Management] – Emma Birkett
- Mastered By [Mastering] – Mandy*
- Mixed By – Marta Salogni (tracks: A1, A3, C1, C2, C4, D1, D2, D5)
- Mixed By [Chorus] – Marta Salogni (tracks: B2)
- Mixed By [Vocal Mixes] – Marta Salogni (tracks: A2)
- Other [The Fifth Ear] – Robin Carolan
- Photography By [Avian Fetus Photographed By] – Ken Kohl (2)
- Recorded By [Bird Song Samples] – Jean C. Roché
- Recorded By [Field Recordings] – Chris Watson
- Soloist [Flute Solo] – Áshildur Haraldsdóttir
- Typography, Illustration [Digital Illuminations] – M/M (Paris)
- Vocals, Flute [Digital Flute], Flute, Arranged By [Vocal, Choir And Cello Arrangements] – Björk
Notes
- 200 g black vinyl (weighed)
- glossy cover
- glossy heavy inner sleeves
- some copies came with circular transparent sticker on front cover
Sticker reads:
björk
utopia
Björk
the new album
conceived by Björk & Arca
includes card
tplp1381
From the sleeve and inner sleeves:
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., except A1, A3, C4, D2, D5: published by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd./EMI April Music Inc (ASCAP); D4: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control (APRA)
Original recording on D4: 'Kindred Spirits: Music for harmonic whirlies' composed, performed and recorded by Sarah Hopkins © 1996 Sarah Hopkins APRA
Original recording on C3: 'Mo-mo' track recorded in the village of Damaindeh-Bau, Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea, taken from the album Jessica Mayer © 2016 soma024, courtesy of Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego
Various bird song samples used by kind permission of Jean C. Roché from his recordings 'Oiseau du (Birds of) Venezuela'
Various Icelandic field recordings by Chris Watson
Thanks to Stephen O'Malley for their help with sourcing and clearing samples
Thanks to Smekkleysa
p/c 2017 One Little Indian Ltd / Wellhart Ltd
The copyright in this sound recordings is owned by One Little Indian Records
All rights reserved
- glossy cover
- glossy heavy inner sleeves
- some copies came with circular transparent sticker on front cover
Sticker reads:
björk
utopia
Björk
the new album
conceived by Björk & Arca
includes card
tplp1381
From the sleeve and inner sleeves:
Published by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., except A1, A3, C4, D2, D5: published by Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd./EMI April Music Inc (ASCAP); D4: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control (APRA)
Original recording on D4: 'Kindred Spirits: Music for harmonic whirlies' composed, performed and recorded by Sarah Hopkins © 1996 Sarah Hopkins APRA
Original recording on C3: 'Mo-mo' track recorded in the village of Damaindeh-Bau, Finisterre Range, Papua New Guinea, taken from the album Jessica Mayer © 2016 soma024, courtesy of Ideologic Organ/Editions Mego
Various bird song samples used by kind permission of Jean C. Roché from his recordings 'Oiseau du (Birds of) Venezuela'
Various Icelandic field recordings by Chris Watson
Thanks to Stephen O'Malley for their help with sourcing and clearing samples
Thanks to Smekkleysa
p/c 2017 One Little Indian Ltd / Wellhart Ltd
The copyright in this sound recordings is owned by One Little Indian Records
All rights reserved
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 5 016958 087814
- Barcode (Scanned): 5016958087814
- Rights Society: ASCAP
- Rights Society: APRA
- Label Code: LC 03275
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, hand-etched): TPLP 1381 A-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, hand-etched): TPLP 1381 B-1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, hand-etched): TPLP 1381 C-12
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, hand-etched): TPLP 1381 D-1 MANDY BSS
Other Versions (5 of 29)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission
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Utopia (CD, Album) | One Little Indian | tplp1381cdx | UK | 2017 | ||
| Utopia (CD, Album, Special Edition, Digisleeve) | One Little Indian | tplp1381cd | Europe | 2017 | |||
| Utopia (2×LP, Album, Limited Edition, Peach) | One Little Indian | tplp1381ltd | UK | 2017 | |||
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New Submission
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Utopia = ユートピア (CD, Album) | One Little Indian | HSE-6486, tplp1381cdj | Japan | 2017 | ||
| Utopia (CD, Album) | One Little Indian | podcd0839 | Australia | 2017 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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You need to pick up Utopia on vinyl. The sound is out of this world on a speaker. It’s full of emotion and has a good bass. If you are someone who cares about the color of the vinyl I would try and score a peach pressing because it’s more pleasing to look at -
Edited 2 years agoVery nice pressing with a very rich sound and no sibilance issues (at least on my end). Quality control seems fine to the most part, however both records had a few marks on them which didn't affect playback in the slightest. The records have some surface noise issues though, where a static/noise-esc sound is slightly audable from one of the channels, appearing and disappearing randomly throughout all sides in segments of ~30-90 seconds. I only noticed this with headphones, though, and it isn't too much of an issue.
Overall, definitely recommended! -
One of her most unique listens. Flutes are insane and harps shine. Arca's beats are insane and creative but distracting at times tho. Trippy as hell.
Favourite track: Arisen my senses
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