The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9
Soundtrack album by Björk
Released	25 July 2005
Recorded	2004
Length	52:03
Label	One Little Indian
Producer	Björk Mark Bell Valgeir Sigurðsson
Björk chronology
Army of Me: Remixes and Covers (2005) The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) Surrounded (2006)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	67/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Pitchfork	7.0/10[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]
Spin	[7]

The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 is the second soundtrack album by Björk, released on 25 July 2005 in the UK and on 23 August 2005 in the US. It was composed for Matthew Barney's film of the same title.

The album was re-released in 2006 as a DualDisc including new DTS 96/24 5.1-channel surround sound mixes on the DVD-audio side, plus the extra track "Petrolatum". The DualDisc also formed part of the Surrounded box set.

Background

For the composing of the soundtrack, Björk traveled to Japan to study ancient Japanese music. Several tracks are made with the sound of the shō, a Japanese instrument which contains 16 various reeds; Mayumi Miyata plays the shō on multiple compositions in the soundtrack and appears in the film playing the instrument. "Holographic Entrypoint" features a Noh score and vocal performance by Shiro Nomura, which complements a climactic scene in the film.

Alternative folk singer Will Oldham (also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) is featured on the first track, "Gratitude", singing a letter from a Japanese fisherman to General Douglas MacArthur set to a melody by Matthew Barney. Björk brought "Nameless" back from her 2003 tour, and, with the help of Leila Arab, looped and edited it to create the track "Storm". Björk's vocals feature only on the tracks "Bath", "Storm", and "Cetacea". "Gratitude", "Shimenawa" and "Cetacea" feature harp player Zeena Parkins, who previously collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album Vespertine. "Hunter Vessel" was later sampled on her album Volta for the tracks "Vertebræ by Vertebræ" and "Declare Independence". The track "Storm" was featured in the 2012 video game Spec Ops: The Line.

Track listing

All tracks written by Björk, except where noted. All tracks produced solely by Björk, except for "Ambergris March" produced with Mark Bell and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

The film

The following is a list of the full score used in the film ordered from when they chronologically appear. Many of the tracks are instrumental or variations of the main themes so were not included on the official soundtrack.

1. "Gratitude" (Barney, Björk) – 4:59
2. "Petrolatum" – 6:10
3. "Haf"
4. "Pearl" – 3:43
5. "Nisshin Maru" (Valgeir Sigurðsson) – 2:41
6. "Host" (Mark Bell) – 5:50
7. "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais) – 5:07
8. "Aposiopesis" (Akira Rabelais) – 5:16
9. "Hunter Vessel" – 6:36
10. "Shimenawa" – 2:48
11. "Vessel Shimenawa" – 1:54
12. "Repose" (Valgeir Sigurðsson);- 8:49
13. "Storm" (Björk, Leila) – 5:32
14. "Holographic Entrypoint" (Barney) – 9:57
15. "Ambergris March" – 3:57
16. "Field Inversion";- 1:00
17. "Cetacea" (Barney, Björk) – 3:12
18. "Antarctic Return" – 4:18

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