ORIGINAL SUPER-RARE Bjork 1977 Falkinn vinyl debut LP Start Price GBP 289.95 Current Price GBP 289.95 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, July 13, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Location CD Heaven See more about 'ORIGINAL SUPER-RARE Bjork 1977 Falkinn vinyl debut LP ' Description cd listing     Other Items  |  CD's  |  Feedback  |  Contact       RARE - BJORK 1977 ORIGINAL & AUTHENTIC DEBUT FALKINN LP Up for auction is the now SUPER-RARE ORIGINAL copy of Björk's first full length album released in 1977 in Iceland only! Hate to see this leave, but it's time... This is absolutely the real deal, not one of the many represses. I bought from a guy in Iceland back in '91, where I also obtained the super-rare 'Skytturnar' soundtrack, also now listed on ebay. If you're looking at this auction, I'm sure you know the details of this release.Catalog : FA-006 STEF 1977 FALKINNLP has been played, but is in excellent condition, no scratches, plays perfectly. In very good condition. The sleeve does have some dents, a few light bends and some minor ringwear but for its 31 year age is looking very good.Original lyrics insert is in excellent condition.Any questions you have, please e-mail me. The First Debut - 1977 Björk Guðmundsdóttir (literally ‘Gudmund’s daughter’) was born on 21st November 1965, in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavík. From the age of six until she was 14, she attended a local music school, where she studied the classics, and learned to play the flute and the piano. The family home was a hippy commune, with a steam of artists and musicians among the constant human traffic. Björk’s stepfather, Saevar Arnason, was himself a guitarist, and played in a band called Pops, recreating Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and “all that hippy music”. This bohemian atomsphere laid down a firm musical grounding for Björk’s future vocation, and provided a stepping stone to the first, and most remarkable, aspect of her recording career : an eponymously titled solo album, released in Iceland in 1977. Documentation about this record is scant. Although Björk often alludes to it, precise details are hard to come by. And with the singer on a promotional tour of Japan and Australia at the time of writing, I turned to one of the few people with first-hand knowledge of this early release : Hildur Hauksdóttir—Björk’s mum. “The record came about when Björk was at school,” revealed Hildur, on the phone from Reykjavík. “They used to have an open house every week where the kids had to entertain, read aloud and things like that. Björk sang a song called ‘I Love To Love’. She was born musical. She started to sing very early. She started singing melodies around seven months old.” Björk’s teachers were sufficiently impressed with her rendition of Tina Charles’ U.K. No.1 from February 1976, to take the budding starlet along to Iceland’s Radio 1, then the country’s only national broadcasting organisation, who in turn seemed only too pleased to play the song on air. “After that she was offered a record deal by a label called Fálkinn," continues Hildur. "I knew two musicians there, Pálmi Gunnarsson , a bass player and singer, and Sigurður Karlsson a drummer, and they had already recorded some songs with Björk. We worked on the recordat the Hljdrijinn Studios in Reykjavik. Palmi and Siggi brought in some of the best players in Iceland. After that first record with all thouse grown-ups, she only ever worked with oeioke her own age.” Among the other musicians on “Björk” was stepfather Sævar Árnason, and Bjørgvin Gislason, one of Iceland’s most acclaimed guitarists. Björk would return the favour several years later when she sang on the track “Afi” on Gislason’s 1983 LP, “Oerugglega”. The “Björk” album was released in time for Christmas 1977, with a cover designed by Hildur, and photographed at a local Reykjavík studio. In contrast to precocious recordings by singing kids like Lena Zavaroni, the tone of “Björk” mercifully falls short of the little-madam-wearing-mummy’s-make-up image (although who knows what she’s singing about !). Producers Gunnarsson and Karlsson constructed a perfectly listenable, mid-70s pop album (albeit one sung by an 11-year old), which mixed a handful of standard Icelandic pop tunes, and a Björk orginal—the instrumental “Johannes Kjaval” (a tribute to a celebrated Icelandic painter)—with covers of Melanie’s “Christopher Robin” (with a decent approximation of Mel’s vocal growl), Stevie Wonder’s “Your Kiss Is Sweet”, Edgar Winter’s “Alta Mira” and the Beatles’ “Fool On The Hill” ( translated as “Alfur Ut Ur Hol” !). Despite her tender age, Björk managed to press her personality into the grooves, and this, her real debut, is as much her own record as it is her producer’s. Perhaps succumbing to a little of the mythmaking which is an inevitable side—effect of stardom, Björk has recently maintained that the album went platinum in Iceland, indicating that she became an instant celebrity. Her mum is not so sure. “I have no idea !” replied Hildur, when asked how many copies “Björk” sold. “It’s sold out today, I know that. And they are playing it on the radio now in Iceland ! But at the time, she was not exactly what you’d call famous. In Iceland it’s different from elsewhere. It’s such a small place, everybody knows each other already. But the record didn’t separate her from school or anything.” And what became of the Fálkinn label ? “They have stopped making their own records. They only sell others’ records now, and bicycles”. 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