Bjrk - Vespertine - Pagan Poetry |
Bjrk |
2005.04.15. 14:16 |
“We discussed how to do something with the moving image that was a mirror of what was happening musically. . . . It had to have a different look from the video footage and from the digitally altered video footage. I knew it had to look as luscious as possible,” Chaudoir says. “It’s stripping away the artifice and the digital effects, into the raw image of Bjrk.”
Pagan Poetry is written and produced by Bjrk. It is the second song to be taken off her fourth studio album "Vespertine" as a single. The video to the track is done by Nick Knight who previously photographed Bjrk for the Homogenic cover image. Production: Gainsbury & Whiting. Director of Photography: Simon Chaudoir.
Written by Bjrk
Published by Universal Music Publishing
Produced by Bjrk
Additional Production by Marius de Vries
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
Programming by Jake Davies, Bjrk & Marius de Vries
Bassline by Bjrk
Music Box Arrangement by Bjrk
Adaptation for Music Box by Jack Perron
Harp Arrangement by Zeena Parkins & Bjrk
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Bjrk - Vespertine - Undo |
Bjrk & Thomas Knak |
2005.04.15. 14:07 |
Written by Bjrk & Thomas Knak
Published by Universal Music Publishing/Copyright Control
Produced by Bjrk
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
Programming by Thomas Knak
Harp & Harp Arrangement by Zeena Parkins
String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza
Choir Arrangement by Bjrk
Protools: Jake Davies, Jan "Stan" Kybert" & Valgeir Sigurdsson
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Bjrk - Vespertine - It's not up to you |
Bjrk |
2005.04.15. 13:38 |
Written by Bjrk
Published by Universal Music Publishing
Produced by Bjrk
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
Beat Programming by Valgeir Sigurdsson
Clavichord and Clavichord Arrangement by Guy Sigsworth
Harp Arrangement by Bjrk
Harp by Caryl Thomas
String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza
Choir Arrangement by Bjrk and Vince Mendoza
Protools/Recording Engineers: Jake Davies, Valgeir Sigurdsson & Leigh Jamieson
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Bjrk - Vespertine - Cocoon |
Bjrk & Thomas Knak |
2005.04.14. 17:41 |
Written by Bjrk & Thomas Knak
Published by Universal Music Publishing/Copyright Control
Produced by Bjrk & Thomas Knak
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
Programming by Thomas Knak & Bjrk
"I had to go to Denmark for a year. There was nothing going on. I was literally lying on the beach, looking at the ocean, with a ghetto blaster listening to Thomas Knak/Opiate's album. I realised he was from Copenhagen. I just called him up."
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Bjrk - Vespertine - Hidden Place |
Bjrk, Guy Sigsworth & Mark Bell |
2005.04.14. 17:36 |
"'Hidden Place' is sort of about how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You've got an emotional location that's mutual. And it's unbreakable. And obviously it's make-believe. So, you could argue that it doesn't exist because it's invisible, but of course it does. And it's sort of a one-nil situation."
Written by Bjrk, Guy Sigsworth & Mark Bell. Produced by Bjrk. Hidden Place was not so hidden as it was the first single to be taken from the fourth studio album Vespertine (2001). The video marked also a new beginning as M/M Paris co directed the video with Inez & Vinoodh, and went on to collaboratively create the visuals and layout for the whole Vespertine album and a sequence of singles.
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - New World |
Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.14. 17:31 |
Written by: Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk
Arranged by: Bjrk & Vincent Mendoza
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - 107 steps |
Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.14. 17:25 |
Written by: Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk & Siobhan Fallon
Arranged by: Bjrk & Vincent Mendoza
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk & Mark Bell
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - In The Musicals |
Bjrk, Mark Bell, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.14. 17:23 |
Written by: Bjrk, Mark Bell, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk
Arranged by: Bjrk & Vincent Mendoza
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk & Mark Bell
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music, Warp/EMI Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - Scatterheart |
Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.14. 17:11 |
Written by: Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk
Arranged by: Bjrk & Vincent Mendoza
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk & Mark Bell
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - I've seen it all |
Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.09. 13:53 |
Written by: Bjrk, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk & Thom Yorke
Arranged by: Bjrk, Vincent Mendoza & Guy Sigsworth
Choir Arranged by: Bjrk
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk & Mark Bell
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Selmasongs - Cvalda |
Bjrk, Mark Bell, Sjn & Lars von Trier |
2005.04.09. 13:49 |
Written by: Bjrk, Mark Bell, Sjn & Lars von Trier
Performed by: Bjrk & Catherine Deneuve
Arranged by: Bjrk & Vincent Mendoza
Orchestrated & Conducted by: Vincent Mendoza
Produced by: Bjrk & Mark Bell
Mixed by: Mark "Spike" Stent
Published by: Universal Music, Warp/EMI Music & Copyright Control
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Bjrk - Homogenic - All is full of love |
Bjrk |
2005.04.09. 13:43 |
Written by Bjrk and produced by Howie B. Released in June 1999 as the last of five singles taken from Bjrk's third album, 'Homogenic'. The Greatest Hits album contains a different version of the song than the orginal version which can be heard on album. This because this mix was used in the video and was included on the singles.
The video is directed by Chris Cunningham, who became famous in 1997 with the scary video "Come to Daddy" for Aphex Twin. He was also responsible for Madonna's "Frozen" and "Only You" for Portishead. "All is Full of Love" got nominated for a Grammy and won several awards including the Best Breakthrough video and Special Effects at the 2000 MTV Video Awards.
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Pluto |
Bjrk |
2005.04.09. 13:40 |
"It's about getting plastered, that need to destroy everything so you can start over again. Having a lot in the planet Pluto, which I do, means you want to cut the crap, throw all the rubbish away No extra baggage. It's death and birth."
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Alarm Call |
Bjrk |
2005.04.09. 13:37 |
Released as a single in december 1998.
Due to the production-title "Jacko" as found on the Homogenic demo tape, it is rumored to be a song in tribute to Michael Jackson.
"I do believe in the power of music to change things. I do sometimes feel like I'm the only one left who believes that."
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Immature |
Bjrk |
2005.04.09. 13:34 |
"Isn't the perfect relationship about filling in those holes in each other, so that two people become one? Yeah, that's what I thought (sadly). But I don't know, really. I used to have all these opinions about love because I'm fierce, a helpless romantic. What happened is my expectations about romance were there (motions to one side of the table, then the other), but what was really happening was here. The elastic stretched so much, it cracked. And now I'm more realistic about things.
I love so many people. Your mate doesn't have to replace everything. I don't know and I'm not going to pretend I do. It's back to basics, being self-sufficient. Now I'm back to how I was as a kid when I used to spend most of my time alone. So I'm spending time by myself and enjoying it very much. It sounds sad, but when I was a kid I didn't really have friends. The most magical moments I had in my life I had alone. Like climbing mountains or swimming or singing or listening to music."
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Bjrk - Homogenic - 5 years |
Bjrk |
2005.04.09. 13:32 |
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Bjrk - Homogenic - All neon like |
Bjrk |
2005.04.02. 14:48 |
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Bachelorette |
Bjrk&Sjn |
2005.04.02. 14:08 |
"Isobel decides to return to the city and to take a train, like in the 30's, in South America somewhere. She decides to confront love with love and confronts the cowards that don't have the guts to fall in love with love. So you see - it's like Isobel has returned. "
Bachelorette is the sequel in this epic tale written by Bjrk with lyrics by Sjn. Released on her third album "Homogenic", it was also chosen as one of the first singles. A tall adventure. Produced by Bjrk. The video to the song was realised by - once again - Michel Gondry, who now had done 6 videos for Bjrk.
Regarding the extra lyrics in the booklet that are unsung in the song, Sjn said this in a bjork.com interview september 2004: "I think the artwork for Homogenic was at the printers before the final vocals were laid down, so you were never supposed to see the extra verses for Bachelorette. But you did and I'll never recover from being exposed like that ... ;-)"
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Unravel |
Bjrk |
2005.04.01. 16:03 |
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Bjrk - Homogenic - Jga |
Bjrk |
2005.03.31. 16:47 |
"I was doing a lot of experimenting with beats trying to make them sound volcanic. With this song, I really had a sort of National Anthem in mind. Not the National Anthem but certain classic Icelandic songs - very romantic, very proud." Jga was written by Bjrk. It was produced by her and Mark Bell at the El Cortijo studios in Spain. The lyrics for it were written by Bjrk's long-term collaborator Sjn. Jga became the first single from her third studio album 'Homogenic'. The video was shot on location in Iceland by the French videodirector Michel Gondry, using a 16mm handheld camera, and it was subsequently digitally processed into luscious computer-animated landscapes, alive and moving in synkronization with the beats of the song.
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