“Sorrowful Soil” was written just before she passed away, it's probably capturing more the sadness when you discover that maybe the last chapter of someone's life has started.

I spent a lot of time on the clarinet arrangements, and I really wanted this kind of feeling of being inside the soil-very busy, happy, a lot of mushrooms growing really fast like a mycelium orchestra. “Atopos” is the first single because it is almost like the passport or the ID card (of the album), it has six bass clarinets and a very fast gabba beat. It is both happy digging and also the sort of morbid, severe digging that unfortunately all of us have to do to say goodbye to parents in our lifetimes. The word fossil comes from this, and it’s kind of again, you know, just to exaggerate this feeling of digging oneself into the ground, both in the cozy way with friends and loved ones, but also saying goodbye to ancestors and funerals and that kind of sort of digging.

“Fossora” is a word that I made up from Latin, the female of fossor, which basically means the digger, the one who digs into the ground.

And that’s why I ended up calling Fossora “the mushroom album.” It is in a way a visual shortcut to that, it’s all six bass clarinets and a lot of deep sort of murky, bottom-end sound world, and this is the shortcut I used with my engineers, mixing engineers and musicians to describe that-not sitting in the clouds but it’s a nest on the ground. It was very much also about the ideal and what you would like your world to be, whereas Fossora is sort of what it is, so it’s more like landing into reality, the day-to-day, and therefore a lot of grounding and earth connection. I guess it was in some ways a reaction to the album before, Utopia, which I called a “sci-fi island in the clouds” album-basically because it was sort of out of air with all the flutes and sort of fantasy-themed subject matters. I really enjoyed shooting down roots and really getting closer with friends and family and loved ones, forming some close connections with my closest network of people.

I was unusually here for a long time during the pandemic and really enjoyed it, probably the longest I’d been here since I was 16. Read a personal, detailed guide to Björk’s 10th LP-written by Björk herself.įossora is an album I recorded in Iceland.

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