Continua sensa sosta la promozione di "Fossora" e ad una settimana dalla pubblicazione,  Björk  estrae un nuovo singolo promozionale, "Ancestress", che insieme a "Sorrowful Soil" è uno dei due brani dedicati alla perdita della madre

this song is a letter to my mother , her story seen from my point of view

it is written in chronological order , the first verse is my childhood and so on

only recently did i discover that this song is probably somehow inspired by an icelandic song "grafskrift"

which is somehow a very direct and patriarchial account of someones life

i probably wanted to approach this in a more feminine way

her biological and emotional story

not her professions , partners or dates of birth and death

i am very grateful to my son , sindri eldon , to arrange and sing vocals for the verses

as he has a delicious voice and was very close to her .

for 20 years i have not been able to attend funerals as something in them rubbed me the wrong way .

possibly a big part of it is after having lived a life of thousand concerts , i probably have too strong ideas on how a ritual should be ,

what kinda sound , musical structure , words and it took me all this time to discover that for me all funerals should be outside .

probably what was offending me most was how can one set off the spirit in such a claustrophobic environment as a church ?

when the soul sets off , it needs to be outside so there is room for how enormous it becomes when it merges with the elements