Family Tree (Album)

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Family Tree
lign="center" colspan="3"|
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Album by Bjrk
lign="left" valign="top"|Released colspan="2" valign="top"|November, 2002
lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded colspan="2" valign="top"|???
lign="left" valign="top"|Genre colspan="2" valign="top"|Electronica
lign="left" valign="top"|Record label colspan="2" valign="top"|One Little Indian
lign="left" valign="top"|Producer colspan="2" valign="top"|various
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"|AMG review valign="top"|4 stars out of 5 valign="top"| link
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Bjrk Chronology
align="top"|Greatest Hits
(2002)
valign="top"|Family Tree
(2002)
valign="top"|Live Box
(2003)
Family Tree is a boxed set of musical material by Icelandic singer Bjrk. The set consists of a book of lyrics entitled "Words", five 3-inch compact discs of rare and previously unreleased material, and a regular-sized compact disc of "Greatest Hits" selected by Bjrk herself. Family Tree was released in November of 2002, concurrent with the release of Bjrk's Greatest Hits album, in which the tracks were selected by her fans. The five 3-inch compact discs include: "Roots CD 1", which features songs recorded before Bjrk's "second solo debut" (ie. previous to her 1993 album Debut); "Roots CD 2", which features b-sides and alternate versions of album tracks; "Beats", which focuses on both new and old songs with a heavier electronica influence; and finally "Strings", CDs 1 and 2, which feature live and studio recordings of Bjrk with the Brodsky Quartet through 1999 and 2000. The artwork on the CD was done in collaboration with Icelandic contemporary artist Gabriella Fridriksdottir.

Track listing

CD 1: Greatest Hits As Chosen By Bjrk

  1. "Venus As A Boy" - 4:41
  2. "Hyperballad" - 5:23
  3. "You've Been Flirting Again" - 2:29
  4. "Isobel" - 5:48
  5. "Jga" - 5:04
  6. "Unravel" - 3:12
  7. "Bachelorette" - 5:17
  8. "All is Full of Love" - 4:46
  9. "Scatterheart" - 6:39
  10. "I've Seen It All" - 5:29
  11. "Pagan Poetry" - 5:14
  12. "It's Not Up to You" - 5:08

CD 2: Roots CD 1

  1. "Sdasta g" - 3:00
  2. "Glra" - 1:45
  3. "Fuglar" - 3:04
  4. "Ammli" - 3:59
  5. "Mama" - 2:57

CD 3: Roots CD 2

  1. "Immature" - 2:53
  2. "Cover Me" - 3:07
  3. "Generous Palmstroke" - 4:42
  4. "Jga (Strings & Vocals)" - 4:42
  5. "Mother Heroic" - 2:44

CD 4: Beats

  1. "The Modern Things" - 4:11
  2. "Karvel" - 4:30
  3. "I Go Humble" - 4:47
  4. "Nature is Ancient" - 3:40

CD 5: Strings CD 1

  1. "Unravel" - 3:38
  2. "Cover Me" - 2:50
  3. "Possibly Maybe" - 4:55
  4. "The Anchor Song" - 3:44
  5. "Hunter" - 4:31

CD 6: Strings CD 2

  1. "All Neon Like" - 5:07
  2. "I've Seen It All" - 5:59
  3. "Bachelorette" - 5:09
  4. "Play Dead" - 3:25

Words

  1. "All Is Full of Love"
  2. "Aurora"
  3. "Cocoon"
  4. "Cover Me"
  5. "Headphones"
  6. "Human Behaviour"
  7. "Hyperballad"
  8. "Jga"
  9. "Pagan Poetry"
  10. "Pluto"
  11. "Scatterheart"
  12. "The Anchor Song"
  13. "The Modern Things"
  14. "Unravel"
  15. "Venus As A Boy"
  16. "All Neon Like"

Track Notes

  • "Glra" (Roots CD 1), recorded in 1980, was written and produced by Bjrk. She also performed the flutes.
  • "Fuglar" (Roots CD 1) is a song by KUKL, recorded in 1983.
  • "Immature" (Roots CD 2) is a more spare version of the album track, recorded in 1996 with piano by Bjrk.
  • "Mother Heroic" (Roots CD 2) is based on the poem "Oh Thou That Bowest Thy Ecstatic Face" by E. E. Cummings and was recorded in 2001.
  • "The Modern Things" (Beats) is a demo version of what would later become the album track, written and produced by Bjrk and Graham Massey in 1991.
  • "I Go Humble" (Beats), recorded in 1995, was written by Bjrk and Mark Bell, with Bell also on the keyboards.
  • "Nature is Ancient" (Beats) was recorded in 1997 and originally released as the b-side "My Snare". It was written and produced by Bjrk and Mark Bell.

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