Pitchfork

Following the August 6th release of "Hidden Place," the first single from her upcoming album Vespertine, Björk will spread her gospel on a world tour which so far includes opera houses and theatres in Europe and North America. The stunning lineup of her band will comprise the electronica-Valhallan duo, Matmos, who will open each show with their own half-hour set, as well as Zeena Parkins on the electric harp she invented, and the 54-member Il Novecento Orchestra, conducted by Simon Lee. Björk has also recruited a chorus of 14 Inuit girls from Greenland and a throat singer from Victoria Island, Northern Canada, appropriately named Tagaq.

n Aside from the performances in larger venues, several small-venue shows which will be limited to 300 seats are tentatively planned. These smaller settings will allow Björk to perform without a microphone and to take advantage of the intimacy which Vespertine craves. These shows will only be announced on the day of the performances themselves, in light of the response to her secret Riverside Chapel concert in New York, when 30,000 people applied for only 300 tickets. Tour dates for Europe, Japan, and Iceland are in the works for November and December.

n 08-18 Paris, France - Le Grand Rex
08-20 Paris, France - Le Grand Rex
08-23 Paris, France - Saint Chappelle
08-25 Paris, France - Saint Chappelle
08-29 London, England - St. John's Smith's Square
09-11 Stuttgart, Germany - Stuttgart Liederhalle
09-13 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Metropole
09-15 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Metropole
09-18 Frankfurt, Germany - Alte Oper
09-21 Lille-Roubaix, France - Le Colisee
09-23 London, England - English National Opera: The Coliseum
09-28 Amsterdam, Holland - Muziektheatre (aka Stopera)
10-04 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
10-05 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
10-07 Toronto, Canada - Hummingbird
10-12 Boston, MA - Wang
10-14 Chicago, IL - Lyric Opera House
10-17 San Francisco, CA - Paramount Theatre
10-22 Los Angeles, CA - LA Opera: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

n .: Björk: http://www.bjork.com
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