Earlier this month, over 400 musicians—together with MJ Lenderman, Massive Attack, and Yaeji—and labels, amongst them Bayonet, 10k, and Pan, signed up for a campaign asking distributors to dam their music from streaming in Israel. Now, Björk has joined their ranks. The Icelandic legend has not issued a press release on her participation within the embargo, however her identify is now listed among the many artists on the No Music for Genocide web site.
No Music for Genocide’s mission assertion calls on artists and labels to affix the cultural embargo in protest of “Israel’s genocide in Gaza; ethnic cleaning of the Occupied West Financial institution; apartheid inside Israel,” repression of pro-Palestine activism, and the music trade’s hyperlinks to “weapons and crimes towards humanity.” The marketing campaign arrives as numerous artists pull their catalogs from Spotify entirely, many citing now-Executive Chair Daniel Ek’s investments in synthetic intelligence (AI) army know-how via his enterprise fund, Prima Materia.
Björk shared her newest album, Fossora, in 2022. She’s since become an advocate towards unsustainable salmon farming practices in her native Iceland. Proceeds from “Oral,” her 2023 single with Rosalía, went in direction of a authorized case introduced towards Norwegian-owned industrial fishing operations by the residents of Seyðisfjörður. In November 2023, Björk posted a graphic on Instagram that displayed territory adjustments between Israel and Palestine since 1946 with the caption “is that this what you name sharing ?”
Examine Fossora at No. 57 on “The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.”
