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The one-day Echolalia festival took place yesterday (August 12) at Víðistaðatún in Hafnarfjörður, just outside the country’s capital city of Reykjavik. As well as a set from Björk, the event also featured DJ sets and performances from Arca, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, 33EMYBW, Sideproject and Ronja Jóhannsdóttir.
A apresentação do Arca incluiu o momento de "totalidade" por volta das 17h48, horário local, com a lua obscurecendo completamente o sol e mergulhando o local em escuridão por pouco mais de um minuto.
Björk então subiu ao palco às 17h50 e tocou por uma hora, até o fim do eclipse.
She wore a balloon-like outfit and danced behind the decks, playing tracks including Marina Herlop’s ‘Jaque’, Safety Trance and Arca’s ‘El Alma Que Te Trajo’, Kelela‘s ‘If We Meet Again’ and Machine Girl‘s ‘Down To The Essence (Mun Sing Remix)’.
She also played Conrad Taylor’s remix of ‘Berghain‘, her collaboration with Rosalía and Yves Tumor. Watch footage of the performance below.
The event was held within the narrow path where the moon entirely covered the sun, marking the first total solar eclipse visible in Iceland since 1954.
It also shared its name with Björk’s ongoing Echolalia exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland, a show that presents three large-scale audiovisual installations.
Two reimagine ‘Ancestress’ and ‘Sorrowful Soil’ from her 2022 album ‘Fossora‘ – both composed in memory of her late mother – while the third offers a preview of the unreleased track ‘Nerve Bloom’, which is expected to appear on her next album, due in 2027.
No início deste ano, Björk se juntou a Rosalía para performar ‘Berghain’ no BRIT Awards de 2026. Ela também compartilhou o filme do concerto de sua turnê ‘Cornucopia’ e está contribuindo com música para o futuro jogo de multiplayer de ficção científica SEED.
Speaking to NME in 2022 about her relationship with Iceland and nightlife, she said: “I’m not really an urban person. I love visiting cities and going clubbing or seeing a gallery or concert, but then I just want to go home.
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