Bjork's New York Home/Studio

Icelandic singer Bjork primarily wrote and recorded her 2015 album Vulnicura at her house in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Bjork maintains a high-quality studio environment within her home but uses external studios for recording groups of string players that cannot fit in her house. From New York, she was able to collaborate with her team of producers, as well as with Slawomir Zubryzycki in order to obtain viola organista recordings when Vulnicura Strings was released in late 2015.

Tingen, P. (n.d.). Inside Track: Björk's Vulnicura. Retrieved from https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-bjorks-vulnicura

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Latitude: 40.695929400000
Longitude: -73.995552300000

Timeline of Events Associated with Bjork's New York Home/Studio

Date Event Manage
2015 to 2015

Vulnciura Strings Features the Viola Organista

Icelandic singer Bjork releases her eighth studio album in 2015, entitled Vulnicura. Combining electronic music and EDM with robust string orchestration, the album was well-reviewed by critics. In October of that year, she would announce Vulnicura Strings (fully titled “Vulnicura: The Acoustic Version – Strings, Voice and Viola Organista Only"), with reworked instrumentation that kept only the vocal recordings of the original pieces. In a statement, Bjork said her goal was to “simply have the acoustics stand on their own for the folks who wanna (sic) indulge even further into the wooden timeless side of this music. With no techno."

Bjork had emailed Zubryzycki in 2013 soon after his organista was completed, but did not have an opportunity to call upon the instrument until the Vulnicura Strings project. The two did not meet in-person throughout the recording process, as Zubryzycki recorded his parts in Cracow. Bjork would send him flowers several days later in return. The organista is featured most prominently on the track “Black Lake,” where it is the only accompaniment to Bjork’s vocals. She stated that performing the song was “always like going back to the Middle Ages. So I thought, OK, this is a little ancient song that would probably have a good relationship with the Viola Organista."

 Gzyl, P. (2015, October 13). Krakowianin zagra razem z Björk. Retrieved from https://gazetakrakowska.pl/krakowianin-zagra-razem-z-bjork/ar/8990187?cookie=1

Bjork: Vulnicura Strings, Available For Pre-Order. (2015, October 06). Retrieved from http://www.indian.co.uk/site/news/bjrk-vulnicura-strings-available-for-p...