Parts make a (non-seamless) whole

# Björk has a new album/multimedia project, Biophilia, coming out next month. I am excited. I think Björk is one of the best, most fearless, and most interesting musicians out there, bar none.

# With her commissioning the creation of a new instrument, the gameleste, for the album, the history of the gamelan outside Indonesia has entered a new chapter.

# This Michel Gondry-directed video for one of the album's tracks, "Crystalline," that features the gameleste, is pretty amazing: 

( And it makes me want to rewatch Charmax's vid Space Girl, so I did, I did, I did. )

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