Ancestress, 3ème single de Fossora

Après Atopos et Ovule, Björk dévoile un 3^e extrait de Fossora attendu dans huit jours. Ancestress est, avec Sorrowful Soil, l’une des deux chansons de l’album dédiée à sa défunte mère.

Le clip qui met en scène une procession mortuaire païenne a été tourné en Islande « en famille » avec Andrew Thomas Huang à la réalisation, James Merry pour la création des masques, Erna Ómarsdóttir à la chorégraphie et les chœurs ont été arrangés / interprétés par son fils Sindri Eldon.

Ancestress est une lettre adressée à sa mère, son histoire vue par sa fille. Les paroles sont dans l’ordre chronologique, le premier couplet est l’enfance de Björk (when i was a girl she sang for me / in falsetto, lullabies with sincerity / i thank her for her integrity) et ainsi de suite.

on my new album , fossora , i wrote 2 songs to my mother . this one , ancestress , is written just after her wordly funeral and is probably a common musician´s reaction ,
the impulse of making your version of the story , later .
this song is a letter to my mother , her story seen from my point of view
it is written in chronological order , the first verse is my childhood and so on
only recently did i discover that this song is probably somehow inspired by an icelandic song "grafskrift"
which is somehow a very direct and patriarchial account of someones life
i probably wanted to approach this in a more feminine way
her biological and emotional story
not her professions , partners or dates of birth and death
i am very grateful to my son , sindri eldon , to arrange and sing vocals for the verses
as he has a delicious voice and was very close to her .
for 20 years i have not been able to attend funerals as something in them rubbed me the wrong way .
possibly a big part of it is after having lived a life of thousand concerts , i probably have too strong ideas on how a ritual should be ,
what kinda sound , musical structure , words and it took me all this time to discover that for me all funerals should be outside .
probably what was offending me most was how can one set off the spirit in such a claustrophobic environment as a church ?
when the soul sets off , it needs to be outside so there is room for how enormous it becomes when it merges with the elements
warmth

björk