Video: Dirty Projectors w/ Bjork 05.08.09

Helping marine life is certainly a worthwhile cause, but as much as Bjork and Dirty Projectors want to raise awareness about whales, Mount Wittenberg Orca will ultimately raise awareness about their music, which is a worthwhile cause all on its own. "If you grow up in the river, the river's all you know." Let's get the rather strange yet essential set-up out of the way first. Stereogum writer Brandon Stosuy invited Dirty Projectors and Bjork, mutual fans of each other's music, to collaborate on a benefit show performance at a New York bookstore. After discussing what to [...]

I just listened to Mount Wittenberg Orca EP and I think Bjork just cast a spell on my mind. This collaboration between The Dirty Projectors and Bjork is 21-minutes of insane vocal madness that started from a benefit show in Manhattan's Housing Works Book shoppe. Bits of electronic/noise and instruments but that's really for atmosphere..I think. It's beautiful, and sort of what you'd expect-what I mean is if you put Bjork with anything, you can expect the outcome to be beyond human. So for instance if I put Bjork in the ocean, she would [...]

• Dirty Projectors + Bjork - All We Are

Fyrir rúmu ári komu Björk og Dirty Projectors saman á tónleikum í New York til styrktar útgangsfólki. Á efnisskránni var nýtt verk sem var sérsamið af David Longstreth, forsprakka Dirty Projectors, og gekk undir nafninu Mount Wittenberg Orca . Í apríl síðastliðnum hittist svo mannskapurinn á ný í hljóðveri og tók upp verkið, sem mun vera 20 mínútur að lengd og í sjö hlutum. Afraksturinn er EP platan Mount Wittenberg Orca kemur út á stafrænu formi þann 30. júní næstkomandi og mun ágóði af sölu skífunnar renna til National Geographic Society. [...]

We like to think we've constantly got our fingers on the musical pulse, but sometimes we need a helping hand. On this particular occasion our guiding light was none other than Bjork . Always one to pick the best collaborators, Bjork announced a few months back that she would perform at a charity gig with New York's Dirty Projectors . Who are this motley crew we asked ourselves? Well, they're fronted by a man called Dave Longstreth and there are five other people in the [...]

So this seems like it was quite the thing: ascendant indie rockers Dirty Projectors and the still-awesome Bjork got together at the Housing Works Bookstore in NYC for a benefit show organized by... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .