Family Tree (album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Family Tree
Box set by Björk
Released	November 4, 2002
Genre	Electronica
Length	141:09
Label	One Little Indian
Producer(s)	Various
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Blender link Pitchfork (3.6/10) link Stylus Magazine (A-) link
Björk chronology
Greatest Hits (2002)	Family Tree (2002)	Live Box (2003)

Family Tree is a boxed set of musical material by Icelandic singer Björk. The set consists of a book of lyrics entitled "Words", five 3-inch compact discs of rare and previously unreleased material, and a regular-sized compact disc of "Greatest Hits" selected by Björk herself.

Family Tree was released in November of 2002, concurrent with the release of Björk's Greatest Hits album, in which the tracks were selected by her fans.

The five 3-inch compact discs include: "Roots CD 1", which features songs recorded before Björk's "second solo debut" (ie. previous to her 1993 album Debut). This compact disc features songs by her previous bands: KUKL, The Elgar Sisters, and The Sugarcubes. "Roots CD 2" features b-sides and alternate versions of album tracks; "Beats", which focuses on both new and old songs with a heavier electronica influence; and finally "Strings", CDs 1 and 2, which feature live and studio recordings of Björk with the Brodsky Quartet through 1999 and 2000.

The artwork on the CD was done in collaboration with Icelandic contemporary artist Gabríela Fridriksdóttir.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 CD 1: Roots 1 1.2 CD 2: Roots 2 1.3 CD 3: Beats 1.4 CD 4: Strings 1 1.5 CD 5: Strings 2 1.6 Booklet - Words 1.7 CD 6: Greatest Hits as Chosen by Björk 2 Credits 2.1 CD 1 - Roots 1 2.2 CD 2 - Roots 2 2.3 CD 3 - Beats 2.4 CD 4 - Strings 1 2.5 CD 5 - Strings 2 2.6 CD 6 - Greatest Hits as Chosen by Björk 2.7 Booklet - Words 3 List of templates 4 Personnel 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD 1: Roots 1

Time length: 14:05.

Track	Title	Group	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	Síðasta Ég	The Elgar Sisters	03:00	link	sample
02	Glóra	The Elgar Sisters	01:45	instrumental	-
03	Fuglar	KUKL	03:04	link	sample
04	Ammæli	The Sugarcubes	03:59	link	-
05	Mamma	The Sugarcubes	02:57	link	-

[edit] CD 2: Roots 2

Time length: 17:28.

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	Immature	02:53	link	sample
02	Cover Me	03:07	link	sample
03	Generous Palmstroke	04:42	link	sample
04	Jóga (Strings & Vocals)	04:42	link	-
05	Mother Heroic	02:44	link	sample

[edit] CD 3: Beats

Time length: 16:28.

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	The Modern Things	04:11	link	sample
02	Karvel	04:30	link	-
03	I Go Humble	04:47	link	sample
04	Nature is Ancient	03:40	-	-

[edit] CD 4: Strings 1

Time length: 18:18.

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	Unravel	03:38	link	-
02	Cover Me	02.50	link	-
03	Possibly Maybe	04:55	link	-
04	The Anchor Song	03:44	link	-
05	Hunter	04:31	link	-

[edit] CD 5: Strings 2

Time length: 19:00.

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	All Neon Like	05:07	link	-
02	I've Seen It All	05:59	link	-
03	Bachelorette	05.09	link	-
04	Play Dead	03:25	link	-

[edit] Booklet - Words

No.	Song	Lyrics
01	All is Full of Love	link
02	Aurora	link
03	Cocoon	link
04	Cover Me	link
05	Headphones	link
06	Human Behaviour	link
07	Hyperballad	link
08	Jóga	link
09	Pagan Poetry	link
10	Pluto	link
11	Scatterheart	link
12	The Anchor Song	link
13	The Modern Things	link
14	Unravel	link
15	Venus as a Boy	link
16	All Neon Like	link

[edit] CD 6: Greatest Hits as Chosen by Björk

Time length: 57:01.

Track	Title	Length	Lyrics	Audio clips
01	Venus as a Boy	04:41	link	sample
02	Hyperballad	05:23	link	sample
03	You've Been Flirting Again	02:29	link	sample
04	Isobel	05:48	link	sample
05	Jóga	05:04	link	sample
06	Unravel	03:12	link	sample
07	Bachelorette	05:17	link	sample
08	All is Full of Love	04:46	link	sample
09	Scatterheart	06:39	link	sample
10	I've Seen It All	05:29	link	sample
11	Pagan Poetry	05:14	link	sample
12	It's Not Up to You	05:08	link	sample

[edit] Credits

[edit] CD 1 - Roots 1

”Síðasta Ég”
Written by: Björk, Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson. Production: Björk and Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson. Engineering: Mel Jefferson. Mix: Jim Abbiss.
Note: recorded in 1986 when Björk and G. K. Óttarsson were together in The Elgar Sisters.
”Glóra”
Written by: Björk. Flute: Björk. Production: Björk. Engineering: Mel Jefferson. Mix: Jim Abbiss.
Note: recorded in 1986, during The Elgar Sisters period.
”Fuglar”
Written by: KUKL. Production: KUKL. Engineering: Tony Cook.
Note: this song is also known as “Seagull” and it first appeared in The Eye (1984).
”Ammæli”
Written by: The Sugarcubes. Production: Ray Schulman and Derek Birkett.
Note: “Ammæli” is the Icelandic version of “Birthday” The Sugarcubes’ biggest hit. This track appeared for the first time in 1986 in the single Einn Mol’á Mann.
”Mamma”
Written by: The Sugarcubes. Production: Ray Schulman and Derek Birkett.
Note: this song belongs to Life’s Too Good (1987).

[edit] CD 2 - Roots 2

”Immature”
Written by: Björk. Piano: Björk. Production: Björk. Mix: Mike “Spike” Stent. Engineering: Markus Dravs.
”Cover Me”
Written by: Björk. Production: Björk and Nellee Hooper. Engineering: Howie Bernstein. Assistant engineer: Oswald “Wiz” Bowe. Programming: Marius de Vries. Keyboards: Björk.
”Generous Palmstroke”
Written by: Björk and Zeena Parkins. Harp: Zeena Parkins. Live recording: Kevin Pruce at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome on November 10, 2001. Production: Björk. Mix: Valgeir Sigurðsson.
”Jóga (Strings and Vocals) ”
Written by: Björk and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (Sjón). Production: Björk and Mark Bell. Mix: Howie Bernstein.
”Mother Heroic”
Written by: Björk and Guy Sigsworth. Lyrics: taken from the poem Belgium (1925) by E. E. Cummings. Celeste: Guy Sigsworth. Pro Tools: Yan “Stan” Kybert. Engineering: Valgeir Sigurðsson. Mix engineer: Paul “P-Dub” Walton. Assisted by: Matt Fields and David Treahearn. Mix: Mike “Spike” Stent.

[edit] CD 3 - Beats

”The Modern Things”
Written by: Björk and Graham Massey. Original demo - production: Björk and Graham Massey. Programming:Z Graham Massey. Keyboards: Graham Massey and Björk. Mix engineer: Graham Massey.
”Karvel”
Written by: Björk and Graham Massey. Production and mix: Graham Massey. Engineering: Markus Dravs.
”I Go Humble”
Written by: Björk and Mark Bell. Programming: Mark Bell and Marius de Vries. Keyboards: Mark Bell. Recording engineers: Mark Bell and Alan Fisch. Assistant engineer: Oswald “Wiz” Bowe. Mix engineer: Howie Bernstein.
”Nature is Ancient”
Written by: Björk and Mark Bell. Production: Björk and Mark Bell. Recording: Markus Dravs. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.

[edit] CD 4 - Strings 1

”Unravel”
Written by: Björk and Guy Sigsworth. String arrangements: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.
”Cover Me”
Written by: Björk. String arrangements: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.
”Possibly Maybe”
Written by: Björk, Nellee Hooper and Marius de Vries. String arrangements: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.
”The Anchor Song”
Written by: Björk. String arrangements adaptation for string quartet: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.
”Hunter”
Written by: Björk. String arrangements: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.

[edit] CD 5 - Strings 2

”All Neon Like”
Written by: Björk. String arrangements: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies.
”I’ve Seen It All”
Written by: Björk, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson and Lars von Trier. Mix: Jake Davies, Valgeir Sigurðsson and Björk.
”Bachelorette”
Written by: Björk and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson. String arrangements adaptation for string quartet: Brodsky Quartet. Mix: Jake Davies Valgeir Sigurðsson and Björk.
”Play Dead”
Written by: Björk, David Arnold and Jah Wobble. Mix: Jake Davies.

• Note: Björk and Brodsky Quartet live and studio recordings from 1999 to 2000.

[edit] CD 6 - Greatest Hits as Chosen by Björk

”Venus as a Boy”
Written by: Björk. Production: Nellee Hooper.
”Hyperballad”
Written by: Björk. Production: Nellee Hooper and Björk.
”You’ve Been Flirting Again”
Written by: Björk. Production: Björk.
”Isobel”
Written by: Björk, Nellee Hooper, Marius de Vries and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson. Production: Nellee Hooper and Björk.
”Jóga”
Written by: Björk and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson. Production: Björk and Mark Bell. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”Unravel”
Written by: Björk and Guy Sigsworth. Production: Björk and Guy Sigsworth. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”Bachelorette”
Written by: Björk and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson. Production: Björk. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”All Is Full of Love”
Written by: Björk. Production: Björk. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”Scatterheart”
Written by: Björk, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson and Lars von Trier. Production: Björk and Mark Bell. Arrangement: Björk and Vince Mendoza. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”I’ve Seen It All”
Performer: Björk and Thom Yorke. Written by: Björk, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson and Lars von Trier. Production: Björk and Mark Bell. Arrangement: Björk, Vince Mendoza and Guy Sigsworth. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”Pagan Poetry”
Written by: Björk. Production: Björk. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.
”It’s Not Up to You”
Written by: Björk. Production: Björk. Mix: Mark “Spike” Stent.

[edit] Booklet - Words

”All Is Full of Love”
Written by: Björk.
”Aurora”
Written by: Björk.
”Cocoon”
Written by: Björk and Thomas Knak.
”Cover Me”
Written by: Björk.
”Headphones”
Written by: Björk and Tricky.
”Human Behaviour”
Written by: Björk.
”Hyperballad”
Written by: Björk.
”Jóga”
Written by: Björk and Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson.
”Pagan Poetry”
Written by: Björk.
”Pluto”
Written by: Björk and Mark Bell.
”Scatterheart”
Written by: Björk, Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson and Lars von Trier.
”The Anchor Song”
Written by: Björk.
”The Modern Things”
Written by: Björk.
”Unravel”
Written by: Björk.
”Venus as a Boy”
Written by: Björk.
”All Neon Like”
Written by: Björk.

• Note: All lyrics by Björk.

[edit] List of templates

1. Telepathy
2. Uppspretta
3. The Conquest of the Polyconsoler
4. A Fortiori
5. Rhapsody
6. Temper Examples
7. Balderdash
8. Operazione Morizia
9. The Elipted Mouthed Illusionist
10. The Bottom Seeker
11. The Core
12. Equilibrium
13. Portrait of Denial
14. Mjaldur
15. Eliptics
16. Fernando
17. Halfman Halfbeast
18. Simplicity
19. The Bottle Run
20. Terrific Snowman
21. Zahir
22. Attack to the Minor-Complex Bacteria
23. M.I.R
24. Melancholy
25. Reason
26. Sculptor
27. Operazione Pane
28. Sculptor

[edit] Personnel

Master: Howie Weinberg.
Digital editing: Roger Lian.
Production management: Jennifer Quinn. Masterdisk, New York City. Sleeve notes edition: Louise Neri. Photography (plates [16], [24] and [25]): Jiri Hronik.
Art design: Gabríela Friðriksdóttir.
Package design: M/M Paris.

[edit] External links

• Family Tree mini-site at Björk.com
• Björk official website
• Björk's Purple Lodge Discography - Complete discography listing, it includes DVDs, VHS, books and her collaborations with other artists.
• Mp3 and MIDI files - A look through Björk’s artistic career and her collaborations with other artists.
• Official site of Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson
• Page about G. K. Óttarsson at Isound.com
• Page of G. K. Óttarsson at MySpace.com
• Official site of KUKL
• Official site of The Sugarcubes
• Official site of Mel Jefferson
• Nellee Hooper profile at Allmusic.com
• Marius de Vries profile at Allmusic.com
• Official site of Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (Sjón)
• Biography of Guy Sigsworth at Sospubs.co.uk
• Page about Mark Bell
• Brodsky Quartet
• Page about Howie B
• Official site of Tricky
• Fan site of Thom Yorke
• Page about David Arnold
• Biography and videography of David Arnold
• Biography of Jah Wobble
• Danny Cannon at the Internet Movie Database
• Lars von Trier at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site of Zeena Parkins
• Official site of Gabríela Friðriksdóttir
• M/M Paris