Bjork's OCEANIA Middle Eastern Cover

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As the Olympic took over her neighbourhood in Hackney- Singer Yael Claire, the versatile singer leading SPIRITWO, a band combining Epic Rock and Electro Cabaret, from the East London's Art Scene, thought to create an alternative activity ... Bjork's 2004 performance in the Olympic was the PERFECT excuse to cover that special, artistic song she sang in the Olympics back then - a song called 'Oceania' from her Accappella Album 'Medula'.

With the idea was to combine versatile vocal work with Arab beats, flavouring Bjork's song with the Middle Eastern passion - Yael Claire, originally from Tel Aviv ( Israe l) Collaborated with IBO, a London based Palestinian musician originally from Jerusalem, that gave the song original Arabic beats from traditional Arabic songs using the Darbuka (Tableh) percussion drum. The result is a landscape of sound : Punk Rock attitude , Electronica, and Middle Eastern musical tradition a mix that describes the current mixture of cultures that co-exist in friendship in London, thanks to a cosmopolitan, International Art scene. The Animation for the Video was directed and animated by Yael Claire from SPIRITWO, that used to be an animator, trying to keep the video DIY low cost. Yael Claire used stop motion tricks to create a journey from the beach in Tel Aviv to London's Regents Canal, passing through some of the exciting street art,capturing the charm of Hackney.

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At this point we should just leave Bjork alone.