Drawing Restraint 9 (album)
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''The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9'' is the second soundtrack album by
Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...
, released on 25 July 2005 in the UK and on 23 August 2005 in the US. It was composed for
Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...
's ''
Drawing Restraint 9 ''Drawing Restraint 9'' is a 2005 film project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature-length film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 19 numbered components and rela ...
'', which Björk co-starred in as an "Occidental Guest", acting as the ninth installment of his ongoing Drawing Restraint film series. The album was re-released in 2006 as a
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including new DTS 96/24 5.1-channel surround sound mixes on the DVD-audio side, plus the extra track "Petrolatum". The DualDisc also formed part of the '' Surrounded'' box set.


Background

For the composing of the soundtrack, Björk traveled to Japan to study ancient Japanese music. Several tracks are made with the sound of the shō, a Japanese instrument which contains 16 various reeds;
Mayumi Miyata is a Japanese player of the '' shō'', a traditional Japanese mouth organ. Miyata was born on April 1, 1954, in Tokyo and graduated from the Kunitachi College of Music, where she majored in piano. While in school, she began studying ''gagaku'' ...
plays the shō on multiple compositions in the soundtrack and appears in the film playing the instrument. "Holographic Entrypoint" features a
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score and vocal performance by Shiro Nomura, which complements a climactic scene in the film. Alternative
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singer
Will Oldham Joseph Will Oldham (born January 15, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded in collaboration with dozens of other musicians under variations of Palace (Palace, Palace Brothers, Palace Son ...
(also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) is featured on the first track, "Gratitude", singing a letter from a Japanese fisherman to
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set to a melody by Matthew Barney. Björk brought "Nameless" back from her 2003 tour, and, with the help of
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, looped and edited it to create the track "Storm". Björk's vocals feature only on the tracks "Bath", "Storm", and "Cetacea". "Gratitude", "Shimenawa" and "Cetacea" feature harp player
Zeena Parkins Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard har ...
, who previously collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album ''
Vespertine ''Vespertine'' is the fourth studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. It was first released on 18 August 2001 in Japan by One Little Indian Records and in the United States by Elektra Entertainment. Björk aspired to create an album ...
''. "Hunter Vessel" was later sampled on her album '' Volta'' for the tracks "Vertebræ by Vertebræ" and "
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". The track "Storm" was featured in the 2012 video game '' Spec Ops: The Line''.


Track listing

All tracks written by Björk, except where noted. All tracks produced solely by Björk, except for "Ambergris March" produced with Mark Bell and
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.


The film

The following is a list of the full score used in the film ordered from when they chronologically appear. Many of the tracks are instrumental or variations of the main themes so were not included on the official soundtrack. # "Gratitude"  – 4:59 # "Petrolatum" – 6:10 # "Haf" # "Pearl" – 3:43 # "Nisshin Maru"  – 2:41 # "Host"  – 5:50 # "Bath"  – 5:07 # "Aposiopesis"  – 5:16 # "Hunter Vessel" – 6:36 # "Shimenawa" – 2:48 # "Vessel Shimenawa" – 1:54 # "Repose" ;- 8:49 # "Storm"  – 5:32 # "Holographic Entrypoint"  – 9:57 # "Ambergris March" – 3:57 # "Field Inversion";- 1:00 # "Cetacea"  – 3:12 # "Antarctic Return" – 4:18


Personnel

*Björk – arranger, producer, programmer, keyboards, harp, beat programming *Tanya Tagaq – throat singing *Luis "Kako" Alvarez – design assistant *Yuji Arai – coordination, session coordinator *Matthew Barney – director, producer, writer, design, direction, filmmaker *Scott Bartucca – oboe *Mark Bell – producer, beat programming *David Bobroff – contrabass trombone *James Button – oboe *Bruce Eidem – trombone *Emil Friðfinnsson – horn *Christopher Gaudi – oboe *Barbara Gladstone – producer *Kathy Halvorson – oboe *Shinichi Ishikawa – liner notes *Clarice Jensen – assistant, project coordinator *Mai Kamio – chorus *Alisa Kikuchi – chorus *Alexandra Knoll – oboe *Winnie Lai – oboe *Dan "D Unit" Levine – trombone *Dan Levine – trombone *Eleanor Miceli – chorus *Taro Miceli – chorus *Mayumi Miyata – sho *Umeda Miyuki – assistant engineer *Tony Morgan – design *Nico Muhly – conductor, keyboards, preparation, score preparation *Shiro Nomura – vocals *Shonosuke Okura – percussion, chant *Will Oldham – vocals *Guðrún Óskarsdóttir – harpsichord *Eiríkur Örn Pálsson – trumpet *Zeena Parkins – harp *Dean Plank – trombone *Sigurður S. Porbergsson – trombone *Sturla Pórisson – assistant engineer *Akira Rabelais – piano treatments *Matt Ryle – production design *Einar St. Jónsson – trumpet *Christopher Seguine – post production supervisor, post producer *Jónas Sen – celeste *Shogo Senda – chorus *Raku Shigematsu – chorus *Valgeir Sigurðsson – keyboards, programming, producer, engineer, mixing, beat programming *Samuel Solomon – percussion, glockenspiel, crotale *Peter Strietmann – photography, photography director *Henry Takizawa – chorus *Merrill Takizawa – chorus *Takahiro Uchida – engineer *Kuniyoshi Ueda – noh arranger, translation *Marcus Grandon – assistance to Mr. Ueda *Paul P Dub Walton – mixing *Chris Washburn – trombone *Tommy Webster – assistant engineer *Chris Winget – photography


Charts


References


External links


Drawing Restraint 9 mini-website

Drawing Restraint 9 lyrics on official website
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