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Summary: Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD is a Work of Art!
Review: Like so many others I truly enjoyed this Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD. The performances are mostly from her Vespertine album, and like the beautiful Vespertine album this is a very intimate experience. The concert also includes some classic Bjork songs from her past albums. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is truly amazing, which I would describe as a mesmerizing 3D audio experience that envelops the listener and takes you on your own emotional journey. BJORK is a rare and original artist who touches a person like very few artists can do. All the performances are awesome, but my personal favorite performances are: Hyperballad, Joga, Human Behavior, Harm Of Will, It's Not Up To You, Hidden Place, and Unison. I highly encourage any one who appreciated Bjork to buy this beautiful Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD.The Songs Performed are: Frosti, Overture, All Is Full of Love, Aurora, Undo, Generous Palmstroke, An Echo a Stain, Hidden Place, Cocoon, Unison, Harm of Will, It's Not up to You, Pagan Poetry, Possibly Maybe, Isobel, Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Joga, It's in Our Hands This DVD also includes BONUS features such as, on the Vespertine World Tour with: Matmos, Zeena Parkins, Simon Lee, and the Inuit Choir, along with an interview with BJORK. The DVD is in widescreen not fullscreen as the editors review claims. Truly a wonderful DVD!
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Summary: Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD is a Work of Art!
Review: Like so many others I truly enjoyed this Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD. The performances are mostly from her Vespertine album, and like the beautiful Vespertine album this is a very intimate experience. The concert also includes some classic Bjork songs from her past albums. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is truly amazing, which I would describe as a mesmerizing 3D audio experience that envelops the listener and takes you on your own emotional journey. BJORK is a rare and original artist who touches a person like very few artists can do. All the performances are awesome, but my personal favorite performances are: Hyperballad, Joga, Human Behavior, Harm Of Will, It's Not Up To You, Hidden Place, and Unison. I highly encourage any one who appreciated Bjork to buy this beautiful Björk: Live at the Royal Opera House DVD. The Songs Performed are: Frosti, Overture, All Is Full of Love, Aurora, Undo, Generous Palmstroke, An Echo a Stain, Hidden Place, Cocoon, Unison, Harm of Will, It's Not up to You, Pagan Poetry, Possibly Maybe, Isobel, Hyperballad, Human Behavior, Joga, It's in Our Hands This DVD also includes BONUS features such as, on the Vespertine World Tour with: Matmos, Zeena Parkins, Simon Lee, and the Inuit Choir, along with an interview with BJORK. The DVD is in widescreen not fullscreen as the editors review claims. Truly a wonderful DVD!
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Summary: Wonderful, Unique, Uplifting ... do yourself a favour !
Review: Seriously, I love this so much ! I can't add much to the other great reviews here, but I'd like to add my agreement and say how happy this DVD has made me. I have always liked Bjork but would not have called myself a big fan. It took me a long time to get into Vespertine, but I made time to listen properly and then learned to love it. Then this came along. I have watched this so much in the last month I better stop before I spoil it for myself. But the music and the amazing performance just makes me smile so much and I keep being drawn back. Not fair to pick out favourites, it is all excellent. The first half is (deliberately) cooler but no less beautiful than the warmer second act. I love this, it's one of my most prized possessions now, I really recommend it to you. Thanks Bjork, you are marvellous !
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Summary: Wonderful, Unique, Uplifting ... do yourself a favour !
Review: Seriously, I love this so much ! I can't add much to the other great reviews here, but I'd like to add my agreement and say how happy this DVD has made me. I have always liked Bjork but would not have called myself a big fan. It took me a long time to get into Vespertine, but I made time to listen properly and then learned to love it. Then this came along. I have watched this so much in the last month I better stop before I spoil it for myself. But the music and the amazing performance just makes me smile so much and I keep being drawn back. Not fair to pick out favourites, it is all excellent. The first half is (deliberately) cooler but no less beautiful than the warmer second act. I love this, it's one of my most prized possessions now, I really recommend it to you. Thanks Bjork, you are marvellous !
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Summary: Excellent performance.
Review: This concert from Björk's recent tour concentrates mainly on tracks from Vespertine, but also includes several songs from her previous solo albums as well as the new track "It's In Our Hands" (from her recent Greatest Hits cd). For this tour, she performs with electronic duo Matmos, who co-produced Vespertine, a harpist, an orchestra and a choir from Greenland. The way the songs were re-worked to be performed by this particular ensemble stands out particularly well on the older tracks such as Hyperballad and Human Behaviour, which she seems to really have fun with, but the newer tracks also sound excellent throughout. I really learned to appreciate some of them more than I had before since Vespertine was not one of my favorite Björk albums. The 5.1 surround soundtrack was very well done with almost no crowd noise during the songs themselves. I'm not sure why during the second half she wore a dress that has so many thingies hanging off of it (not sure what they were) that you can actually hear the noise of them clicking together picked up by the mic whenever she moves, but that's a minor complaint. Over all, an excellent performance that, for me, really makes up for having missed the tour.
Tracklisting: 1. Frosti, 2. Overture, 3. All is full of love, 4. Aurora, 5. Undo, 6. Generous Palmstroke, 7. An echo a stain, 8. Hidden place, 9. Cocoon, 10. Unison, 11. Harm of will, 12. It's not up to you, 13. Pagan poetry, 14. Possibly maybe, 15. Isobel, 16. Hyperballad, 17. Human behaviour, 18. Joga, 19. It's in our hands
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Summary: A Magical Evening
Review: This DVD is the best I've ever seen! Björk puts on a wonderful performance. With help from the talented Matmos, to harp magician Zeena Parkins, The Greenlandic choir, and conductor Simon Lee and his 58 piece orchestra, this is the best performance of all. A must for all Björk fans!
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Summary: BJORK BJORK BJORK
Review: this dvd really blew me away.
1.quality- unbelievable
2.length- plenty of bjork +extras
3.beauty- bjork
if your a bjork fan you won't be let down here.
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Summary: Bjork at Her Very Best!
Review: This is an amazing DVD highlighting perhaps the best live performance of Bjork's career thus far. The concert was recorded after Vespertine, so it contains her newest, deepest, and most heartfelt songs, including one of her best b-sides, 'Generous Palmstroke'.
If you have your dvd player connected to your audio system, just pop the dvd in without video, and enjoy the spellbinding music of Bjork any time you feel like being enveloped with a sweet emotional soundscape.
The 5.1 surround sound will bring out the many individual contributions, including electronic sound masters Matmos, the Il Novecentro Orchestra, the Inuit Choir, Zeena Parkins on harp, and of course the amazing vocal exaltations of Bjork.
If you think it's expensive, remember that you will be able to watch and listen to this Bjork concert any time you feel like, for less than the cost of one concert ticket.
The song selection seems so right and it flows perfectly, and there are plenty of highlights. Many songs sound better than the original album versions because she has had time to practice and tweak them to bring out their best. The fact that it's live, brings out more raw emotion, and it's amazing how dynamic her performance is, and how she hits everything just right.
Listening to her originals in comparison, you'll see that her music is not just a studio product, it's a pure expression of emotions and experiences that exist in her that are freed when she sings. If that's not enough, you get to watch Matmos create their unique sounds and beats through shuffling cards, moving a hyper-sensitive mic over material, trudging through snow, manipulating motion detecting sound shifters, and more.
I mostly love hip-hop and electronic music, but this concert DVD made me a true fan of Bjork. This is my first review because this is the only product I've bought so far at Amazon.com that I felt strongly enough about and has not received it's fair share of recommendations.
The high replay value will make this DVD a valuable addition to your collection. You will not be dissappointed!
Though the video quality is not on par with most Bjork videos, the audio alone earns this 5 out of 5 stars.
If you liked my first review ever, please indicate so, thanks!!
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Summary: Unthinkable surprises
Review: This video is a visual feast, and has nineteen beautiful songs that won't let you breath because of the excitement. You should discover for yourself the stream of emotions that will lead to a solace, to a place where everything is possible, like a musical universe of utopia. The makers of this beautiful universe are; Simon Lee and the Novecento Orchestra, Matmos, Zeena Parkins, The Inuit Choir and of course Björk. The performance of the orchestra is remarkable because they give enough profundity and drama to the songs so you can actually feel the academic side of Björk.
Matmos add the beats and the organic noises to the show in a very original way that makes more effective the connection between them and the orchestra creating a perfect dialog of different elements.
Zeena Parkins is an important companion of Björk in the entire concert; the sound of the harp creates an atmosphere of romanticisms through slow and fast melodies, and there's a musical connection between Björk and Zeena that can be felt in songs like 'Generous Palmstroke' or 'Pagan Poetry'.
The Inuit Choir is spectacular, they are like "extensions of Björk", they're like beautiful angels from heaven that have come to tell you little secrets, in this case, secrets of hidden places of solace.
Björk; She is the force that holds all elements together in a system that could only work with desire, passion, creativity, instinct and love for music. She's like an angel with a message to tell, and that message is waiting for you to be heard. Bonus features:
Interviews with Björk and Matmos
The Inuit Choir>
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Summary: Bjork brings down the house
Review: Though I'm not as big a fan of her Vespertine material as her prior work, but this concert is nonetheless enjoyable!The first half drags a bit with pretty much all songs being performed off the Vespertine (with the exception of "Overture" and the fabulous "All is Full of Love") album, but the second half picks up steam and really delivers a one-two punch! "Possibly Maybe" is performed in a more electronica format with hints of tropical/Hawaiian sounds mixed in. Bjork really shines on "Human Behavior," a song which would normally be stale if it were attached to any other performer, however Bjorks adds in a strong mixture of electronic bleeps and buzzes as well as an orchestra that builds and builds until the end crescendos with strings and horns. For this song alone, it makes the DVD a must-own! My only complaint is that I would love to have seen a few songs performed off of Selmasongs, her soundtrack to Dancer In The Dark. It is a near crime that "Scatterheart" and (the Oscar nominated) "I've Seen It All" are absent.
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