Bjork - Volta Live in Paris and Reykjavik

Bjork in an electic and theatrical concert

Bjork: Volta Live

Bjork Guomundsdottir's electic music and fashion styles have made her the darling of the music world
Bjork: Volta Live

Volta was Bjork's seventh studio album and it was nominated for a Grammy Award. She also toured extensively to promote the album, completing her first world tour in four years.
Bjork: Volta Live

Sky Arts shows Bjork's Volta concerts from Reykjavik and Paris, complete with explosive performances and quirky outfits.

Bjork is famed for her eccentric fashion taste and avant-garde music - and to some she is an acquired taste, but for this concert her distinct style is a feast for both the eyes and the ears.

As much a piece of art as a pop concert, the lighting design, pyrotechnics and costumes are colourfully dazzling. She appears on stage in a brightly coloured, tribal themed outfit with striped face paint across her forehead. She is joined by a group of girls who form a creative unit that is part band and part theatrical chorus. Wearing similar tribal outfits with flamboyant head dresses they are raised on a podium as they provide a heavy brass sound to the music. This creates traditional instrumentation for a very untraditional sound that combined with electronic scoring creates the Bjork effect that is a fushion of pop, dance, electro and folk.

She skips,claps, chants and sings energetically across the stage – throwing bits of white web out into her audience – whilst singing songs from her 2007 album, Volta.

Watch out for Bjork's costume change into the pink tin foil extravaganza.

Bjork: Volta Live in Paris
Bjork: Volta Live in Reykjavik