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| Length = 51:03 | Label = | Producer = | Reviews = | Last album = ''(____surrounded):'' (2006) | This album = ''Volta'' (2007) | Next album = ''Voltaïc'' (2009) | Misc = }} ''Volta'' is the seventh studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in May 2007. It was produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Timbaland and Danja. The music of ''Volta'' was a new style for Björk, focusing on music combining African-influenced beats with horn sections and elements of industrial music. The full album was accidentally made available on the UK iTunes Store at midnight on April 23, 2007 for a total of six hours, two weeks before the album's official release date. This led to the album being leaked online the following day. It has been certified Silver in the United Kingdom. The album attracted attention due to the inclusion of three tracks co-produced by R&B record producer Timbaland.〔http://www.timeoff.com.au/index1.php%3Farea%3DArchive%26pg%3D42%26subarea%3D5632%26sel%3D5632%26showcontent%3D5632〕 The album was highly acclaimed on its initial release and continues to be praised by critics. ''Volta'' spent nine weeks at number one on ''Billboards Top Electronic Albums chart and in the first three months of release sold over half a million copies worldwide. The lead single, "Earth Intruders", reached number 67 on the UK Official Download Chart, and number 78 on the main UK Singles Chart, while the remix EP later released charted on its own at #150. In the United States, the song debuted on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 at number 84 in the issue dated April 28, 2007, her second entry on that chart (after "Big Time Sensuality"). Björk went on an 18-month tour in support of the album, which was her first tour in four years. The album was re-released in June 2009 under the name ''Voltaïc''. It refers to five separate releases of related material from ''Volta''. The full version of the release includes a CD of 11 songs performed live at the Olympic Studios, a DVD of Björk's live performances in Paris and Reykjavík during the ''Volta'' tour, a second DVD of the ''Volta'' music videos as well as videos of the top ten runners-up from the "Innocence" video contest, and a second CD of remixes from ''Voltas singles. The official worldwide release date of all editions was June 23, 2009. The artwork was nominated for an award at the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards. ==Background and development== In an interview for daily Internet publication Pitchfork Media, Björk talked for the first time about the theme of the album. In the run-up to the release of the album, many media outlets were lauding the album as a return to the supposed "pop" sound of Björk's earlier solo albums ''Debut'' and ''Post''. This was due in part to the inclusion of three tracks co-produced by record producer Timbaland; in interviews before the album's release he had stated that seven of the tracks he worked with Björk on would end up on her album, seemingly indicating that there would be more of Timbaland's involvement on the record than there eventually was. At the time Timbaland had also had recent hits with Justin Timberlake (SexyBack) and Nelly Furtado (Promiscuous and Maneater), with him and his protégé Danja being responsible for some of the biggest hits of 2006 and 2007. As the news of Björk having worked with Timbaland spread across the internet, many websites started speculating on whether the album would be "hip hop" flavoured; in one interview Timbaland himself referred to the upcoming album as "hip hop". The online music magazine Pitchfork Media, in their exclusive first interview with Björk for the promotion of ''Volta'', quoted Björk as saying that the new album would be "full-bodied and really up".〔 This was taken by fans as further evidence of a more "pop" album (as compared to her more recent output). A week later the head of Björk's record company, Derek Birkett, heralded the new album as "the most commercial thing she's ever done" in Music Week, the trade paper for the UK record industry. Björk has since stated that the album was not "hip hop" and that she had not intended for it to be so either. She said that she did not want to work with Timbaland as a "hitmaker", or because of his affiliation to a particular genre, but wanted to work with him solely as a musician in his own right. Björk has also explained that when the two of them were together, Timbaland asked Björk what kind of music she would like to make with him, for example a hit song or "something weird", and Björk replied that she was interested in finding out where they "overlapped" musically, and they would go from there. The result was a tribal sound, because they were both interested in it. She has also said that One Little Indian "always feel that ‘my latest release is the most commercial to date’",〔http://www.bjork.com/facts/about/right.php%3Fid%3D1384〕 and that she feels ''Volta'' is no more commercial than any of her previous work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volta (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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