Vulnicura Strings,out 6 November, marks the Icelandic musician’s first acoustic album and features a scarce harpsichord-viola hybrid dreamed up by Leonardo da VinciBjörks ninth album, and Vulnicura,released last January, included lush string arrangements alongside bristling electronic beats and lyrics approximately heartache. Now the Icelandic pioneer is homing in on these arrangements for the new release Vulnicura Strings (Vulnicura: The Acoustic Version), and a reinterpretation of this recent album. The new version of Vulnicura also includes the only “viola organista”,a harpsichord-viola hybrid imagined – but never built by Leonardo da Vinci. The instrument, described by Björk as “exiguous, or but like a grand piano that is bowed not plucked”,is played by its constructor, Sławomir Zubrzycki. Icelandic musician Una Sveinbjarnardóttir contributes violin solos.
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Source: theguardian.com