The Dirty Projectors Collaboration With Björk Is Ready.
When last year Icelandic superstar Björk agreed to play a benefit gig at a New York bookstore with Brooklyn’s artiest band The Dirty Projectors, their leader Dave Longstreth decided it was time to prepare something special.
Well-known for sharing an interest for the most experimental side of music; instead of going through their respective repertoires, the artists decided to embark on a new project, whose songs were written by Longstreth. The lyrics were inspired by Amber Coffman’s experience watching a family of whales in North California. The Dirty Projectors leader wrote the songs thinking on different vocal roles for Björk –as the mum whale- and Amber and the other female members of his band as the offspring. All of this shaped ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’.
A year after they performed the songs, the artists got together again to record them ‘as quickly and live as possible’ after three days of rehearsals.
The ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’ mini album is now available for download in exchange for a donation to a project in collaboration with the National Geographic Society, whose aim is to help creating international marine protected areas.
You can download the album and find out more about the project here.
One of its tracks, ‘All We Are’, can be also streamed below.
