I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

Hyperballad

War In Your Arms

Like A Circle

Requiem

Runaway

I Am Here

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (feat. Missy Higgins)

If I Didn’t Love You

Friendly Fire

Another Falling Star

Song Beneath the Song

Speak [DEMO]

From the album 'Sirens' now available worldwide on iTunes http://hyperurl.co/benabrahamsirens

'Speak' words and music by Ben Abraham
Produced by Jono Steer, Leigh Fisher and Ben Abraham
Additional vocal production by Wally De Backer
Watercolour by Kat Kallady

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CREDITS

Ben Abraham - vocals, electric guitar, piano, juno, wurly, synth
Jono Steer - synths, mandolin
Leigh Fisher - drums, percussion, synths
Lawrence Folvig - additional electric guitar
Pat Moevasa - bass
James Gilligan - mandolin
Atilla Kuti - violin
Karoline Kuti - cello

Speak

Now that I'm independent again I want to just put up songs the way I used to and not care about what happens next.

Here's a song I wrote years ago called World So Big about how I could sit around and get anxious about life or I could remember how massive the universe is and how many incredible things happen that have nothing to do with me.

Hope you like x

World So Big

War In Your Arms (Indonesian Version)

A Passing Through

Don't Wish Me Merry Christmas Til I'm Home

Never Been Better Remix

Never Been Better Remix (feat. Pop Noir)

Never Been Better

Never Been Better (feat. corook)

Kidung

Kidung (feat. Bram & Dianne)

How Not To Be

Hyperballad is written by Björk
Arranged by Luke Howard and Ben Abraham
Mixed by Hadyn Buxton
Mastered by Mandy Parnell

I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

You can listen to Tim's version here: https://soundcloud.com/benabraham/hyperballad-with-tim-shiel

Hyperballad with Luke Howard

Hyperballad is written by Björk
Arranged by Luke Howard and Ben Abraham
Re-arranged by Tim Shiel

I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

You can listen to Luke's version here: https://soundcloud.com/benabraham/hyperballad-with-luke-howard

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