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Bj?rk?s new album, Utopia, is out now. In a new interview with FACT, she talked about some rumored recording sessions that happened with the Wu-Tang Clan back around the time Homogenic was released 20 years ago. ?We wrote a couple of songs together. And I just felt? sometimes when you do things and you don?t plan them it?s magic. And I really think what we made was magic,? she said. ?But I think because it wasn?t part of the whole Homogenic thing and it wasn?t part of what Wu-Tang were doing at the time, it was better as an idea, if that makes any sense?? Here?s the relevant portion from the interview:
I wanted these kinda Icelandic, volcanic beats, and I was kind of struggling with it. I had done beats on my albums, but it takes me a long time to make them. And sometimes I get impatient and I want other people to do it, so I sit there and describe to them what I want them to do. So, I was in Spain, and Wu-Tang Clan were supposed to come to Spain. RZA was supposed to come. But then months passed. Then the album got finished and I delivered it. Then RZA was like, ?I?m ready! Shall I come to Spain??
Instead, I went to New York. We wrote a couple of songs together. And I just felt? sometimes when you do things and you don?t plan them it?s magic. And I really think what we made was magic. But I think because it wasn?t part of the whole Homogenic thing and it wasn?t part of what Wu-Tang were doing at the time, it was better as an idea, if that makes any sense?
We met a few times though ? my favourite moment was when I did an in-store at Tower Records. I?d never done anything like that before. I turned up ? and seven of the Wu-Tang Clan turned up to, like, protect me! I was signing books for an hour, and they sent some of their team, standing there with me. That was one of my all-time favourite moments: I had been on my own, so when they turned up I felt very protected. It was magic. In my eyes, they?re punk. We are definitely [similar] ? we do things in, like, a ritual way. The good thing was that I got to hang out with them. I got to see Wu-Tang?s version of New York. Which was pretty cool. A very specific angle on that city that I feel very blessed to have experienced.
Bj?rk also mentions that she was supposed to work with Jay-Z at some point ? for ?a section for a song? ? but that it ?just didn?t happen in the end.? You can read the full interview here.
Full Interview
Link (http://www.factmag.com/2017/11/24/bjork-utopia-interview/)
This would've been interesting to hear their sounds mesh together.