The Icelandic singer-songwriter and avant-garde musician Bjork is back with the music video of the song
'Tabula Rasa' from her 2017 album 'Utopia'. The hypnotic visuals of the video are created by the extremely talented digital artist Tobias Gremmler. Like other tracks of the album, this one too has a gorgeous techno instrumental supporting the singularly powerful and truly mesmerizing vocals by Bjork.
Like her earlier 'Utopia' clip, Bjork's latest video also presents surreal and otherworldly images that perfectly complement her experimental sound. The video shows Bjork constantly metamorphosing into
'faun-like' floral and mountainous shapes with bright colors and lively textures. The visual effects used in the video are really sophisticated. They give an extremely ethereal and arty look to the video. 'It’s an uncanny and arresting sight, but beautiful as well writes the Rolling Stones.
The song is a call for change, a call for building a new world. 'Clean plate: Tabula rasa for my children/ Clean plate: Not repeating the fuck-ups of the fathers': in a world plagued by incessant environmental and ecological decay, the words sound extremely urgent. In a statement explaining how he came up with the visuals, Gremmler has said, 'The visual transformation of Björk into faun-like flowers and mountainous landscapes embodies the utopian concept of harmonious coexistence between nature and human-based on empathy'.
Those constantly shifting, beautiful yet awe-inspiring floral shapes reflect one of the true principles of nature: metamorphosis. The shapes oscillating between the likenesses of floral organisms and the female body or Bjork's face, remind one of the central roles of women in creating a future world where nature and human beings are no longer in a conflict - a future truly liberated from the mistakes of past. '
'It is time: For us women to rise and not just take it lying down/ It is time: The world is listening': the song has every potential of becoming the new anthem of feminist-environmentalist activism.
