Bjork & Dirty Projectors @ Housing Works - a 2nd set of pics
photos by Ryan Muir
The songs were largely or entirely Mr. Longstreth’s — he took half the lead vocals, leaving Bjork the lead on three songs — but her presence brought out their longer melodic lines amid the counterpoint. Where Mr. Longstreth’s lead vocals can sound mannered, Bjork sings like a force of nature. The songs became ballads of innocence and discovery, particularly the delicate finale, a moment of mystical interspecies communion concluding with a line from Kurt Cobain: “All in all is all we are.” It would have been a crowd-pleasing touch to follow up with a rearranged Bjork song as an encore — Dirty Projectors recorded her “Hyperballad” on that Bjork tribute CD — but they chose to leave that gentle homily in the air.
Bjork and the Dirty Projectors each chose an opening act: Olof Arnalds, a woman from Bjork’s native Iceland, and Kurt Weisman, from Vermont. Both were songwriters who put unexpected melodic tangents and other idiosyncratic twists into sparse, folky material. [Jon Pareles @ The NY Times]
You may have seen the first set of pics we posted Friday night. Here is another (which includes Kurt Weisman and a few other angles) from Ryan Muir (the night‘s house photographer)….
Kurt Weisman…
Brandon Stosuy of Stereogum
Björk introducing Ólöf Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds
Björk & Dirty Projectors…