Björk "It's oh so quiet" (part 2)

When the four songs on the first "It's oh so quiet"-single was all from different musical categorizes, the four songs on this one are all acoustic. But that doesn't mean they are less experimental or something like that. After the title-track you hear my absolute favorite-Björk-remix "Hyperballad (Brodsky quartet version)". "Hyper-ballad" has been re-arranged into a song played on violin and cello by a string-quartet. The arrangement is fantastic and the performance is also fantastic. Brodsky quartet are playing this song with such an incredible engagement. It's not often you hear songs played on violin/cello written by pop-artists as good as this one. Depeche Mode wrote a song in 1993 they called "One caress" that a string-quartet performed. The song was good but it didn't have neither such a good arrangement or such an incredible engagement as this one. Of course there's nothing like the real thing but I find the Brodsky quartet's "Hyperballad"-remix as good as the original version.

Except from "It's oh so quiet" and "Hyperballad (The Brodsky quartet mix)" you find one more "Hyperballad"-remix and one non-LP-track. The second "Hyperballad"-remix is a very silent one. Björk is singing the song a little bit slower and with a sadder tone of voice and that has been making the whole song sadder. It really is interesting to hear how many good remixes you can make with just one song. The non-LP-track is unfortunately not that good. It's called "My spine" and it's the only Björk-song I just can't stand. Björk is singing along to an incredibly annoying exhaust pipe. But that song is not making to much damage. The two "Hyperballad"-mixes are making this second "It's oh so quiet"-single even better than the first one. This is a must-have-one!