Following five-year journey from stage to screen, live album will arrive on Blu-ray, CD, and vinyl in October

Björk’s Cornucopia will complete the journey from concert halls to arthouse cinemas to home stereos as the singer has announced a physical release for her concert film.

Following its big screen release earlier this year, Björk revealed that Cornucopia: Live will arrive on October 24 in a variety of formats, including a Blu-ray of the concert film, plus CD and vinyl editions of the audio.

“I am so thrilled to share the film for my concert Cornucopia with you,” the singer said in a statement. “This has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping. I am so beyond enormously grateful to every single one of them. I feel the modern concert film is a matriarchally friendly construct, welcomed in the current climate — where female musicians can share their worlds uncorrupted.”

Björk began her concert trek at New York City’s the Shed in May 2019. Following some pandemic-related pauses, she performed 45 visual concerts across four continents by 2023. During the concerts, Björk’s team projected visuals onto dozens of rotating curtains, creating a digitally animated experience, and also incorporated instruments like a magnetic harp, an aluphone (a percussion instrument made of aluminum bells), a circular flute, and a custom reverb chamber. She told Rolling Stone in 2023 that the concert tour was “the most ambitious project I’ve traveled with.”

With the help of artisans and animators, the concert experience was transformed into a 100-minute film using visual storytelling to breathe life into her hit singles and other tracks from the Icelandic artist’s 2017 album Utopia and 2022 album Fossora, her most recent LP.

 

The concert film was released to theaters this past May, with the physical release due in October; Cornucopia: Live is available to preorder now on Blu-ray, DVD, CD, and 3-LP vinyl.

Cornucopia: Live Track List

Kid Harpoon has been named Abbey Road Studios’ first-ever Producer in Residence, with the Grammy winner tasked with both guiding the legendary studio’s vision as well as mentoring future musical talent.

According to the studio, Kid Harpoon “will have complete access to Abbey Road as his creative playground and studio home in the UK, as well as its collection of vintage gear, microphones and instruments” and “will also consult on the studios’ music tech and innovation work.”

“I’m beyond excited to become Producer in Residence at Abbey Road,” Kid Harpoon said in a statement. “In this position, I’m hoping to use my experience to help guide some of the incredible up-and-coming talent we have in the UK while they navigate their way through what can be a difficult industry. Mark and the team have a real desire to give back and develop new talent, which is something I’m really passionate about. To be able to contribute to the Abbey Road legacy in any way is an honor, and I can’t wait to get stuck in!”

The British-born Thomas “Kid Harpoon” Hull has won Grammys for both Record of the Year (for Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers”) and Album of the Year (for Harry Styles’ Harry’s House) in recent years. His production and songwriting work also includes Shawn Mendes’ Wonder, Maggie Rogers’ Surrender, as well as songs by Florence + the Machine, Lizzo, King Princess, Noah Cyrus, and Jessie Ware. Most recently, Kid Harpoon produced David Byrne’s new album Who Is the Sky?

In addition to shaping Abbey Road’s sound, Kid Harpoon will also take part in the nearly century-old studio’s free education programs aimed at nurturing the next generation of artists and producers via panels and workshops.

“[Kid Harpoon] brings a spirit of collaboration and innovation that perfectly aligns with our vision. With his creative lead, we’re excited to deepen our artistic community and continue placing creativity at the heart of our home,” Abbey Road’s managing director Sally Davies added in a statement.

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