The Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk confirmed, after several postponements, that this Tuesday he would release the song he recorded with the Catalan Rosalia. It’s about the song Orala song that the Icelandic wrote 25 years ago that is inspired by a rhythm of ‘dancehall’, Jamaican music,

The song was released this Tuesday and it is a song whose proceeds from its commercialization will be allocated entirely to “stop open sea fish farming in Iceland”. “Rosalia’s experiments with the (reggaeton) genre and her incredible voice made her an obvious guest for this song,” Björk notes in a message on X (formerly Twitter). “I feel honored that he accepted and that she and her team give up their work and all their performance to this battle.

The author of albums such as ‘Debut’ (1993), ‘Post’ (1995) and ‘Homogenic’ (1997), which established her as one of the most influential and daring artists of his generation, reveals that his voice in the recording is that of 25 years ago. “I think there’s an elegant resonance in the fact that we’re both the same age on the recording,” says the singer, now 57.

In his message he also considers that the fight against open sea fish farming is part of the fight for the future of the planet. “One of the most serious environmental challenges for the north in this century is ocean acidity,” he emphasizes. He directly targets two companies, MOWI and SalMar, “that in five years they have damaged large areas” of the Icelandic fjords, both marine life and animals and plants. “We can still turn this around,” she warns. Björk, daughter of an environmental activist who died in 2018, laments the “immense suffering” that salmon suffer from this fishing method and considers it “an extraordinarily cruel way of making food.”