Björk Kicks Off Cornucopia Tour in Europe with 19 Song Setlist!

On Tour Now

Last updated: 14 Nov 2019, 20:49:55
Published: 14 Nov 2019, 20:49:55
Written by: Asal Shah
Photography by: Santiago Felipe
Categories: On Tour Now Tagged: Björk Cornucopia Björk at Vorst Nationaal / Forest National

Last night, November 13th, Icelandic avant-garde pop artist and absolute icon, Björk, kicked off her 2019 European and UK Cornucopia Tour in Brussels, Belgium. She brought her "sensory feast" to Forest National and her fans were treated to what Björk describes as her “most elaborate stage concert yet."

Earlier in the year, she introduced the shows with a series of warm up sets in New York City and then a short tour in Mexico, and attendees all learned a lesson in extravagance, which exuded in every way via performance and production.

The show is prefaced with gorgeous bird sounds, and a special performance by the Hamrahlid Choir before the show starts. The stage design was created by Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, offering intricate and lush stage props, vivid projections, and a 360-degree sound for an immersive experience. Picture entering a beautiful Narnia meets Fern Gully meets Avatar universe... Yet that doesn't even begin to describe the effort Björk put into her show.

The 19-song setlist is beautifully weaved together as it offers songs that are career spanning but more importantly, follow a flow. The flow is very on brand with her sound from Vespertine, Medulla and her last album release, Utopia. She opens the show with "The Gate," "Utopia," and "Arisen My Senses" off of that new album.

She also works in "Show Me Forgiveness," "Venus as a Boy," "Isobel" and "Blissing Me" before an interlude flute solo (from tape). Her backing band boasts flute septets, harpists, percussionists and she herself spends some time inside a reverb chamber, giving her the power to manipulate her own vocals in a myriad of ways.

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After the flute solo, she does songs like "Hidden Place," "Mouth's Cradle," a partial rendition of "Pagan Poetry" and ends the main set on "Tabula Rasa." But that's not the end of the performance, as an encore IS gifted, but not before an important message by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg (from tape), something new Björk has added in. As for the encore? She does "Future Forever" and "Notget."

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The Cornucopia setlist has remained the same all year, so we aren't expecting her to do any change ups on the remainder of her 2019 tour. See the full setlist from opening night right here: