Family Tree

Released to accompany 'Bjork's Greatest Hits', the 'Family Tree' box set includes one CD on which Bjork compiles her own 12-track 'greatest hits', and a series of 3" mini-CDs - divided into 'Roots', 'Beats' and 'Strings' collections - which in Bjork's words represent "the story of how I got to where I am today and in my musical words to say how I developed as a musician".
The two mini 'Roots' discs together comprise 10 tracks, including some Sugarcubes tracks and 'Sidasta Eg', a piece Bjork wrote on the flute when she was 15. This CD includes tracks from Bjork's career, which demonstrate where she "took the biggest leaps as a songwriter".

The 'Beats' CD, which comprises 4 tracks, displays the very first experiments in rhythm Bjork did with Graham Massey and Mark Bell after leaving The Sugarcubes and gives the first hints at the importance electronica was to take in her solo work.

Last but by no means least, are two 'Strings' CDs on which Bjork, for the first time, confronts and accepts the formal musical training she received as a child. These discs feature the classical arrangements of Bjork's songs by the Brodsky Quartet first heard at the breathtaking shows they played together at the Union Chapel, London, in 2000.