Post Live

Post Live is an amalgamation of performances from Björk’s Post Tour running from 1995 to 1997. As the album was much more adventurous than her previous one, Debut, the live tour had to be equally extravagant. Björk commented in issue 1 of her fanclub magazine Telegraph on the process of staging the tour, which involved “paper skyscrapers, shining forests, blinking radars, volcanoes erupting confetti”:

Post on the other hand was about living in the city, about everything happening at once and you’re in the middle of it all. Seven-thousand-nine-hundred-and-fifty things are happening NOW, you’re on the verge of nervous breakdown but still enjoying it. So, when I started working with Paul Normandale (who has done lights with me for eight years) and Daniel Adric (who designed the props) I told them it was okay to be glamourous and artificial. We also worked with the idea of feminine techno.

Along with the settings, the music itself explores electronic sounds and samples, often in upbeat, lively, and leftfield ways. Björk initially built her band around Guy Sigsworth, Leila Arab, and Talvin Singh (who couldn’t make the tour). She then enlisted Markus Dravs to work with samples, Trevor Morais on drums, and Coba, a Japanese accordionist, in place of strings. Ed Handley and Andy Turner of Plaid joined the band later on.