After a quarter of a century in Prague. Björk will present a show inspired by mushrooms
After a quarter of a century, island star Björk will sing in the Czech capital. One of the most influential acts of electronic and alternative music will perform on September 16 in Prague’s O2 arena, where she will present a performance called Cornucopia.
Björk will present a show called Cornucopia in Prague. A short video invitation invites you to the Japanese part of the tour. Photo: Santiago Felipe | Video: Lawson Ticket
Tickets for prices starting at 1,790 crowns will be available in the Ticketmaster and Ticketportal networks from this Friday, concert agency Live Nation announced.
The tour with theatrical parameters was created by Björčina last year’s album Utopia, but last year the singer reworked it to include songs from Fossor’s latest record. She is currently nominated for a Grammy. “She combines longing for her deceased mother and love for the countryside with European club music and the sound of clarinets,” Aktuálně.cz wrote about her.
Part of the concert lines is her own echo chamber, where Björk can experiment with her voice, or a digital project created by artists led by German-born Tobias Gremmler and scenography by London-based Chiara Stephenson, who was inspired by the aesthetics of mushrooms.
Alongside the singer, the island’s flute septet called Viibra, a clarinetist, a harpist, a percussionist and a player who controls electronic instruments will be on the stage of the O2 arena. The costumes for this tour were created by Olivier Rousteing, who is the creative director of the luxury brand Balmain, and the Dutch avant-garde designer Iris van Herpen. Björk will start the European part of the line in September in Lisbon, Portugal.
The singer was last in the Czech Republic eight years ago, when she performed at the Colors of Ostrava festival with a shaggy, spiky white mask on her face. There, she presented songs from the Vulnicura album about different stages of breakup and emancipation. She was accompanied by the fifteen-member British Heritage Orchestra and electronic music producer Haxan Cloak. “Two years after the difficult surgical removal of a polyp on the vocal cords, which deprived her of her voice, she intoned superbly and without any problems sang even the high-pitched passage that hit Hunter,” they wrote Economic newspaper.
However, the Icelander has only performed twice in Prague, the first time in 1995 at the Palace of Culture and three years later at the Jam Music Festival in Prague’s Džbán camp. There, several thousand spectators watched her late at night, accompanied by a DJ and eight string players. “The phosphorescent scene, on which the ethereally fragile and ferocious and urgent voice of the island singer Björk floated before midnight, resembled an endless, color-variable and quivering water surface,” wrote the newspaper Právo at the time.