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

Taylor Swift believes Nashville has a music scene that stands apart from anywhere else.

The 36 year old singer moved to Nashville, Tennessee, when she was young to chase her dream of becoming a country music star. After being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Monday (26.10.26), Taylor took the opportunity to recognise the city and the talented writers who have helped shape its music scene.

In her acceptance speech, Taylor said: "I believe you really get to master a craft by doing it again and again. That's exactly what the incredible songwriters in this wonderful town do every day."

Taylor also spoke about what makes Nashville such a special place for musicians.

The award winning singer, who ranks among the best selling music artists of all time, said: "You won't find another music community quite like this one. Trust me, I've checked them all."

Taylor also shared how being part of Nashville's songwriting scene had taught her valuable lessons about life and working with others.

She joked: "I've learned to be flexible when your co writer turns up with a hangover, or when they need to spend ages talking about their divorce before we can even get started on a song."

Taylor previously spoke about how Faith Hill and Shania Twain inspired her decision to move to Nashville.

Speaking to Time magazine, the singer said: "I couldn't get enough of watching TV biographies about Faith Hill and Shania Twain, and I realised they had both moved to Nashville to get their careers started. After that, I kept asking, pleading and begging my parents to take me there.

"When I was 11, my mum took my brother and me to Nashville during spring break, and we spent the trip driving around Music Row. She stayed in the car while I rushed into record companies one after another, giving my demo CD to the receptionists. I found it fascinating that so many major record labels were gathered along a single street, often inside little buildings and old houses.

"What really stayed with me was how welcoming people were to newcomers and complete strangers like us. We started visiting Nashville more often, and when I was 13, I received an offer for a development deal from a major record label. That was when my parents finally agreed to leave Pennsylvania and move with me."

 
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