Drawing Restraint 9 (album)

Drawing Restraint 9
Soundtrack album by Björk
Released 25 July 2005 (UK)
23 August 2005 (US)
Recorded 2004
Genre Experimental, electronic, avant-garde, psychedelic
Length 52:03
Label One Little Indian
Producer Björk, Mark Bell and Valgeir Sigurðsson
Björk chronology

Army of Me: Remixes and Covers
(2005)		 Drawing Restraint 9
(2005)		 (____surrounded):
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic (67/100) [1]
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Entertainment Weekly (B) [3]
Pitchfork Media (7.0/10) [4]
Rolling Stone 9/08/05
The Guardian [5]

The Music from Drawing Restraint 9 is a soundtrack created by Björk in collaboration with her then-partner Matthew Barney for his film of the same title. For this project 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; the shō performances are from Mayumi Miyata, one of the world's greatest shō players. She also appears in the film, playing her instrument. The song "Holographic Entrypoint" features a Noh score and vocal performance by Shiro Nomura. Björk brought "Nameless" back from her 2003 tour, and, with the help of Leila Arab, looped and edited it to create the track "Storm." Alternative folk singer Will Oldham (also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) is featured on the first track, "Gratitude," singing a letter from a Japanese fisherman to General Douglas MacArthur set to a melody by Matthew Barney. Björk's vocals feature only on the tracks "Bath", "Storm", and "Cetacea". "Gratitude", "Shimenawa" and "Cetacea" feature harp player Zeena Parkins, who previously collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album Vespertine. "Hunter Vessel" was later re-used on her album Volta for the tracks "Vertebræ by Vertebræ" and "Declare Independence".

The album was re-released in 2006 as a DualDisc 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.

Track listing

The album

All songs written and composed by Björk, except where noted. 

Original release
No. Title Length
1. "Gratitude" (Barney, Björk) 4:59
2. "Pearl"   3:43
3. "Ambergris March"   3:57
4. "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais) 5:07
5. "Hunter Vessel"   6:36
6. "Shimenawa"   2:48
7. "Vessel Shimenawa"   1:54
8. "Storm" (Björk, Leila) 5:32
9. "Holographic Entrypoint" (Barney) 9:57
10. "Cetacea" (Barney, Björk) 3:13
11. "Antarctic Return"   4:18
DualDisc release
No. Title Length
1. "Gratitude" (Barney, Björk) 4:59
2. "Petrolatum"   6:10
3. "Pearl"   3:43
4. "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais) 5:07
5. "Hunter Vessel"   6:36
6. "Shimenawa"   2:48
7. "Vessel Shimenawa"   1:54
8. "Storm" (Björk, Leila) 5:32
9. "Holographic Entrypoint" (Barney) 9:57
10. "Ambergris March"   3:57
11. "Cetacea" (Barney, Björk) 3:13
12. "Antarctic Return"   4:18

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.

  1. "Gratitude" (Barney, Björk) – 4:59
  2. "Petrolatum" – 6:10
  3. "Haf"
  4. "Pearl" – 3:43
  5. "Nisshin Maru" (Valgeir Sigurðsson) – 2:41
  6. "Host" (Mark Bell) – 5:50
  7. "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais) – 5:07
  8. "Aposiopesis" (Akira Rabelais) – 5:16
  9. "Hunter Vessel" – 6:36
  10. "Shimenawa" – 2:48
  11. "Vessel Shimenawa" – 1:54
  12. "Repose" (Valgeir Sigurðsson)
  13. "Storm" (Björk, Leila) – 5:32
  14. "Holographic Entrypoint" (Barney) – 9:57
  15. "Ambergris March" – 3:57
  16. "Field Inversion"
  17. "Cetacea" (Barney, Björk) – 3:12
  18. "Antarctic Return" – 4:18

Pre-release Tracklisting

The following is the preliminary tracklisting with some alternate titles and an alternate song order. This track list was announced before the album was released.

  1. "Giftwrapping"
  2. "Petrolatum"
  3. "Pearl"
  4. "Bath"
  5. "Hunter Vessel"
  6. "Shimenawa"
  7. "Storm"
  8. "Holographic Entrypoint"
  9. "Ambergris March"
  10. "Field Inversion"
  11. "Antarctic Return"

Personnel

  • Björk - arranger, producer, programmer, keyboards, beat programming
  • 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 – arranger, translation
  • Paul P Dub Walton – mixing
  • Chris Washburn – trombone
  • Tommy Webster – assistant engineer
  • Chris Winget – photography

In popular culture

References

  1. ↑ Metacritic score
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. ↑ "Short Takes". Entertainment Weekly. 2 September 2005. p. 81. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  4. ↑ Pitchfork Media review
  5. ↑ 7/15/05

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