Björk has teamed up with Rosalía for a new song. Currently only available on YouTube under the title “help fight fish farming in iceland,” its proceeds will go to the legal fees of protestors against the fish farm at the Fjord Seyðisfjörður in Iceland. Stream it below.
The track, barely over one minute long, features Björk and Rosalía repeatedly singing, “Is that the right thing to do? I just don’t know.” It’s currently unclear whether the YouTube upload is the full song or whether the whole thing will be released later this month.
“i am offering a song me and rosalia sang together. the profits will to help the fight against fish farming in iceland. it will come out in october,” Björk shared in a statement accompanying the song. “people at the fjord seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there. we would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees. and hopefully it can be an exemplary case for others.”
The lengthy statement continues:
“iceland has the biggest untouched nature in europe. and still today it has it’s sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers. it’s fish has swum free in our lakes, rivers and fjords.
so when icelandic and norwegian business men started buying fish farms in the majority of our fjords, it was a big shock and rose up as the main topic this summer, we don’t understand how they had been able to do this for a decade with almost no regulations stopping them. this has already had devastating effect on wildlife and the farmed fish are suffering in horrid health conditions and since a lot of them have escaped, they have started changing the DNA in the icelandic salmon to the worse and could eventually lead to its extinction.
there is still a chance to safe the last wild salmon of the north. our group would like to dare these business men to retract their farms! we would also like to help invent and set strict regulations into iceland’s legal system to guard nature. the majority of the nation already agrees with us so this protest is about putting the will of the people into our rule-systems.”
Earlier this year, Björk shared a remix of Shygirl’s “Woe” ahead of her Coachella performance with the Hollywood String Ensemble, which used more than 800 drones to create a light show above the stage. Meanwhile, Rosalía last released her June single “TUYA.”
Björk has a brief run of European tour dates remaining for 2023. See the schedule below and grab tickets here.
Björk 2023 Tour Dates:
11/18 – Kraków, PL @ Tauron Arena Krakow
11/21 – Hamburg, DE @ Barclays Arena
11/24 – Leipzig, DE @ QUARTERBACK Immobilien AG
11/28 – Zürich, CH @ Hallenstadion
12/02 – Saint-Herblain, FR @ Zenith Nantes Metropole
12/05 – Floirac, FR @ Arkéa Arena
