Cornucopia Live
by Bj枚rk
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 October 2025
- Label: One Little Independent
- Country: Iceland
- Length: 1:33:04
- Community rating: 4.12/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Documenting her most elaborate theatrical production to date, 'Cornucopia Live' synthesizes material primarily from 'Utopia', 'Vulnicura', and 'Fossora' into a singular, immersive experience. The album is defined by a fusion of acoustic and digital soundscapes, featuring the Viibra flute septet, a 50-person Icelandic choir, and an array of bespoke instruments鈥攊ncluding a reverb chamber and circular flute鈥攁longside layered electronic textures. These intricate arrangements reimagine Bj枚rk's studio recordings, weaving them into a continuous narrative that marries ecological themes with her dynamic vocal performance.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, conceptual, atmospheric, live, theatrical
Tracklist
- Family (Intro) - Cornucopia Live (03:47)
- The Gate - Cornucopia Live (04:50)
- Utopia - Cornucopia Live (03:46)
- Arisen My Senses - Cornucopia Live (03:56)
- Ovule - Cornucopia Live (04:00)
- Show Me Forgiveness - Cornucopia Live (01:50)
- Isobel - Cornucopia Live (05:59)
- Blissing Me - Cornucopia Live (03:56)
- Arpeggio - Cornucopia Live (01:48)
- Body Memory - Cornucopia Live (10:54)
- Hidden Place - Cornucopia Live (04:14)
- Mouth's Cradle - Cornucopia Live (03:27)
- Victimhood - Cornucopia Live (04:50)
- Fossora / Atopos - Cornucopia Live (03:08)
- Features Creatures - Cornucopia Live (03:03)
- Courtship - Cornucopia Live (03:11)
- Pagan Poetry - Cornucopia Live (03:04)
- Losss - Cornucopia Live (05:05)
- Sue Me - Cornucopia Live (03:49)
- Tabula Rasa - Cornucopia Live (04:54)
- Notget - Cornucopia Live (05:55)
- Future Forever - Cornucopia Live (03:38)
Credits
- Bj枚rk - performance, sound and visual director, creative sound, visual director, choir, flute, clarinet and strings arrangements, production, musical direction, 360 sound mixing, music arrangements, Primary Artist
- Melkorka 脫lafsd贸ttir - flute
- 脕shildur Haraldsd贸ttir - flute
- Berglind Mar铆a T贸masd贸ttir - flute
- Steinunn Vala P谩lsd贸ttir - flute
- Bj枚rg Brj谩nrsd贸ttir - flute
- 脼ur铆冒ur J贸nsd贸ttir - flute
- Dagn媒 Marin贸sd贸ttir - flute
- S贸lveig Magn煤sd贸ttir - flute
- Katie Buckley - harpist
- Manu Delago - percussion
- Bergur 脼贸risson - electronics, musical direction, multi-instrumentalist, re-recording mixer
- The Hamrahlid Choir - choir
- 脼orger冒ur Ing贸lfsd贸ttir - conductor
- 脥sold Uggad贸ttir - director
- Tobias Gremmler - digital visual design, visuals, animation, digital design
- Andrew Thomas Huang - visuals, visual contributions
- Gabr铆ela Fri冒riksd贸ttir - visuals, visual contributions
- Warren Du Preez - visuals, visual contributions
- Nick Thornton Jones - visuals, visual contributions
- Lucrecia Martel - original theatre director
- Chiara Stephenson - stage design
- Margr茅t Bjarnad贸ttir - choreography
- Bruno Poet - lighting design
- Iris Van Herpen - dresses and costumes, costume design
- Olivier Rousteing - dresses and costumes, costume design
- Gareth Fry - sound design
- John Gale - sound engineering
- James Merry - making of masks, visual co-direction, co-creative visual director, masks
- Robert Wun - fashion designer
- Pierre-Alain Giraud - visual contributions
- Nick Knight - visual contributions
- Sara Nassim - producer
- Kat Mansoor - producer
- Artur Tort - cinematography
- Walter Mauriot - editing
- Derek Birkett - executive producer
- Adrienne Becker - executive producer
- Roger Clark - executive producer
- Dav铆冒 Helgason - executive producer
- Ian Wheeler - co-executive producer
- Susan Lord - co-executive producer
- Brogan Bamborgan - co-executive producer
- Benjamin Ratz - co-executive producer
- Sigrid Dyekj忙r - co-executive producer
- John Tiffany - director
- Chloe Lamford - stage design