Bjork - Kukl Interview 1984

[inachu]

only left speaker works. the audio needs to be reworked so sound comes out of both Also known as MONO

[Joshmf]

I'd love to see this translated and brought to higher quality video sometime.

[Phavonic]

@Joshmf You're in luck. If you search for the colour music video "Anna" by Kukl you'll find one of the uplaods has this interview afterwards in colour. As for the translation, I can still only recommend it to any icelandic people reading this or thumbing this up.

[jumeau1]

no idea what she's saying, but it's such a pretty language

[3SG413]

is there a translation or subtitles for this?!

[stevehowedbproud]

@RussMoxham, or become their next chief...

[LambadLambadLambda]

Geez, it's uncanny how Chinese Bjork looks. She even looks more Chinese here than now.

[Shanniquitie]

@LambadLambadLambda she doesnt look chinese, she looks icelandinc

[RussMoxham]

@Shanniquitie Well, I did read once that the kids at school called her Kínverjinn (The Chinaman)!!

[Phavonic]

@RussMoxham That's nice !! I also read that the guys in the sugarcubes called her "Skull Girl", because of her unusual cheak bones...hmm

[RussMoxham]

@RussMoxham Now that I think about it, 'Kínverjinn' would probably be the title of choice for a Chinese girl/woman too (alongside specific descriptions like 'kínversk kona' for 'Chinese woman', 'kínversk stelpa' for 'Chinese girl', etc.), so it's probably unfair of me to suggest the kids at school called Björk The Chinaman. It's more like The Chinese Person. Over here in Britain, they might have called her Chinky, The Chink or something else equally inappropriate!

[daniellos333]

i am icelantic and they are all trippin balls, theyre answers to the interviewers questions were totally senseless and barely related to the question..

[RussMoxham]

@daniellos333 I never heard Björk give a straight answer to a question. I'm not even sure she knows how.

[Phavonic]

@RussMoxham She tends to tell fibs a lot as well, what with her imagination.

[RussMoxham]

@Phavonic There may be something Icelandic about that--the love of a good story (saga). When Halldór Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he gave an acceptance speech about his view that the (semi-)mythical characters of the mediaeval sagas etc. were basically real for the Icelanders. The Icelanders had focused on their own literature and heroes as a means of sustenance through centuries of Norwegian and Danish rule. Somehow I think Björk fits nicely into that culture that made her.

[stahlhammar]

Strekkja á spólunni

[IsobelBjork]

Wooow, is she high there? :S

[daniellos333]

@IsobelBjork

maybe shes nervous?

[KusinerneAF]

sounds very strange

[easyascheez1]

i dont understand shit too bad

[EendjeKwak]

The return of The Ring.

[easyascheez1]

hahahahahah seriously

[Apogee777]

thanks for the Translation - excellent upload cheers

[clokwize]

I love her expression

[Lucila9fc]

her acent is very funny!!! but still shes was adorable!!!!!!!

[stevieVantanna]

this is creepy.

[TheRougeEyelash]

Too bad I wasn't a globe trotting 11 year old back then. *sigh*

Thanks to Orritomasson

[EujeneKompanets]

She's so cute)

[Ulvenska]

Ha, she looks like a boy. A Chinese boy. And she has a very mischievious face.

[1Boodyman1]

I don't understand a word. And yet this is sooooo fascinating and interesting to listen and watch! It's the best interview ever made!

[josemanuelerre]

thanks for translating!!!!!

[Typamango]

I had a dream with Bjork as a lead.She was the head of our community. We lived close to the water.Jetties were a prominent part of our village and there were great gatherings of folk to eat together.Of which she was the host/instigator. For sure, she was a great and Warm leader.A woman to behold. Those that scorned her were mightly brave but foolish. sense such as her's was not be abolished for the sakes of us all,for She was closer to god than all of us,to whom whithin we all reside.

[RussMoxham]

@Typamango I think in most cultures, at most times in history, Björk, rather than being followed, would probably have been feared, shunned or maybe even killed as a shaman or a witch (in Icelandic or Old Norse terms, a seiðkona/spákona/völva--a prophetess or sorcerer). I think she would have scared the hell out of the first Scandinavian settlers in Iceland.

[Typamango]

Ha ha @RussMoxham, you finally replied !!? I was watching my screen since I wrote that ! It's been 2 year maaan !!! This woman really had a spell over me for a while all right.. She's really something. I really love her still but... mmm I think something else took her over since. What a woman though. What a woman. What an artist. You got her Bjork gumnsditter album from when she was 12 or something ? I'll send you the link if it's still operational (Lossless btw). Thanks for the reply eh.

[Phavonic]

@Typamango But I think you should read the books of Carl Jung about that dream, and look up especially his term "anima". Many goddesses in history have in fact have been reduced to a male psychology of projection.

This video is apparently about a Gudlaugur Ottarsson's dream, and there again is the same psychology of an inner femine compensatory function. I dreamt of Hattie Jakes last night !

[orritomasson]

Q: Who are in this band? (refering to Kukl)

B: #Says their names and what they play or do in the band#

Q: How was this band created?

B: formally it was created when there was not longer room for the radio programme „áfangar, but those who hosted the programme, Ásmundur and Gunnar Rúnar, they decided to say the programme, that is in live broadcasting (transl. comment: this bit does not make much sense), Then we decided to found one band. Just for this one occation...

[orritomasson]

...Just for this one occation. They chose this people, talked to us six. But then after have worked together and practised intensively for half a month by Rauðavatn, we decided to play longer, we found it good.

Q (1:56): Can you describe where you are going with this music, with these lyrics. What is it that you are saying?

B: We like working together...

or at least I do...

We are natturally...

This is our...

That is the influences that have hit us...

To be born and live...

[orritomasson]

...To be born and live...

dream, and other such...

We are responding...

This is just normal responding for us that we are giving back.

Q (2:45): Can you tell us what this song and what this lyrics we are about to see and hear soon is about?

B: The song is named Anna. There are six of us, and each of us has our story to tell of Anna. Guðlaugur started to dream a girl in a boat and fell into it, he dreamt this night after night. He was always trying to save her, but was not very successful...

[orritomasson]

...but was not very successful...

I dreamt a circle, an elliptic circle with tree on this side #here she starts using her fingers to explain#, tree on this side and a river in the middle. And she is trying to pass, over the river to the tree on the other side where there is a monster, and she is going to go circle after circle, but there is always a small hestation when she has to pass the river and go over to the monster. Then she does not take many "ljúfar Önnur...

[orritomasson]

Then she does not take many "ljúfar Önnur" (trsl. com: a reference to a song title, I'm not sure what she means by this). And each of us has our own story to tell...

This is about Anna...

Some dream girl we know very little about. She's leading us somewere. (or draging us somewere)

(4:00) cut over to Einar Örn.

[Phavonic]

Whoa, you are the man. You translated the whole thing ! You are dedicated as you are helpful. Thanks a lot for that, now all we need is a translation of the Theyr interview...

It's interesting to hear about Gudlaugur's dream, in Jungian terms it sounds like the anima falling into the unconscious. Maybe he was having woman-trouble.

[RussMoxham]

@Phavonic Björk's dream is also interesting in Jungian terms. The landscape she's talking about sounds like a kind of Jungian 'temenos', a frame of reference, and to me it sounds as if she's repeatedly walking around it anticlockwise and confronting a monster on the far shore each time. If I put on my Jungian head for a minute, that sounds very much like a kind of anti-intellectual quest to me, a journey into the unconscious.

[RussMoxham]

@orritomasson I think it's 'Sigtryggur þekkir margar ljúfar Önnur', i.e. 'Sigtryggur [the drummer] knows many dear Annas'.

[RussMoxham]

@orritomasson I think it's 'þeir ákváðu að hafa síðasta þáttinn sem sagt í beinni útsendingu': they decided to have the last programme broadcast live.

[Rmz989]

how old was she here...and what are they talking about? It seems really serious

[ardap]

translation please, anybody!

[googledisher]

I know at the start she introduces the band... but that's it.

[monkeys55]

SWEET! If only there were subtitles...