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Gloomy Sunday	Seress Rezsõ	2005.05.20. 17:20
Szomor� vas�rnap/ Szomor� vas�rnap/ sz�z feh�r vir�ggal/ v�rtalak kedvesem/ templomi im�val./ �lmokat kergetõ/ vas�rnap d�lelõtt,/ b�natom hintaja/ n�lk�led visszaj�tt./ Az�ta szomor�/ mindig a vas�rnap,/ k�nny csak az italom,/ kenyerem a b�nat./ Szomor� vas�rnap./ Utols� vas�rnap/ kedvesem gyere el,/ pap is lesz, kopors�,/ ravatal, gy�szlepel./ Akkor is vir�g v�r,/ vir�g �s - kopors�./ Vir�gos f�k alatt/ utam az utols�./ Nyitva lesz szemem, hogy/ m�g egyszer l�ssalak./ Ne f�j a szememtõl,/ holtan is �ldalak.../ Utols� vas�rnap. / Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Nature is ancient	Bj�rk	2005.05.05. 17:50
Released under the title "My Snare" as a B-side on the 'Bachelorette' single in december 1997. Also released under the title "Nature Is Ancient" on the 'Family Tree' album in november 2001, and as an extra track on the Japanese edition of 'Homogenic' in 1997. Written by Bj�rk & Mark Bell Produced by Bj�rk & Mark Bell Recorded by Markus Dravs Mixed by Mark 'Spike' Stent Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Triumph of a heart	Bj�rk	2005.05.05. 17:27
Performed by Bj�rk Human trombone: Gregory Purnhagen Beats: Rahzel, Dokaka Programming; Valgeir Sigurdsson, Mark Bell, Bj�rk Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Mouth's Cradle	Bj�rk	2005.05.05. 17:17
"Obviously the line about Osamas and Bushes was a bad joke. But I guess it's sort of partly true, because it insterests me a lot with western civilization, that someone as passionate as Osama could be such a threat, and it seemed to me at times to be almost passion versus logic. I found it really interesteing that it could be so un-understandable for some people that somebody would do something like that, and how unaware the western civilization were of how annoying they are sometimes -- I'm obviously not justifying what he did. But after that, it just totally took over - it was all about arabs and americans, and if you were pro or against or whatever. It just seems curious to me, where obviously both were right and wrong. It seems like the whole world has been talking about it for the last three years, not only me. All unbelievable people are suddenly interested in politics. And maybe me in the end wanting my music to offer something else, and saying I want to look for a shelter with an altar away from the Osamas and Bushes. And maybe these politicians think that they are 95% of our lives and that we should all just worry about if Bush gets re-elected or not and what's gonna happen to the muslims or whatever. And I think it's about 5% important, and 95% is like... children going to school, the latest breakdancer, people starving and people losing their jobs and people telling awful jokes, and all these other stuff, you know. People in space, and jellyfishes in the ocean having affairs with other jellyfishes. I'm inventing marinal soap operas here, sorry. But there's just a lot of other stuff, and it just got boring after a while. So maybe this record is partly an attept to say "wait a minute, there's other stuff out there you know". That's it." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Sonnets/Unrealities XI	E. E. Cummings	2005.05.05. 17:00
"Basically, there's 'Sonnets', and they have many unrealities, and this is reality number 11. It's like a chunk of poems, and this is one of them. It's kind of him taking the piss of himself, when you make up things that scare you out of nowhere - you're just paranoid. In this particular case it's about him being madly in love with a girl, things are totally euphoric and couldn't be more perfect, and then his mind starts playing games on him. He starts imagining, what if, in five years time or something, she sould meet someone else, and how he would deal with that. He asks his girlfriend then; in five years time, when she meets and falls in love with someone else, and will smell his hair and kiss him and be naked with him and all these things - could she please tell him gently, and then he would go up to her new lover and wish him good luck with his new girlfriend, take his hand and wish him all the happiness in the world, and then walk away. It's sort of "how hard can you make it on yourself", you know? I just think it was sort of funny, because it happens - the few times in your life when you feel you've got it right, your mind start going off on "what happens if this goes wrong?" and this feeling of carrying a chinese vase across a motorway... "oh it's definitely gonna break, I know it's gonna break", and you make it up in your head when everything is actually OK." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Oceania	Sigurj�n Birgir Sigurdsson	2005.05.05. 16:53
This song was premiered at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. "Basically, the Olympics people asked me to do a kind of 'Ebony and Ivory' or 'We Are the World' type song. Those are smashing tunes and all that, but I thought, 'Maybe there's another angle to this.' When I tried to write an Olympic lyric, though, it was full of sports socks and ribbons. I ended up pissing myself laughing." Bj�rk decided to call on Sj�n Sigurdsson, Icelandic poet and previous lyrics-collaborator. Needing something epic, Sj�n took a course in Greek mythology, and then wrote these lyrics for 'Oceania', a kind of aquatic sojourn and the last song recorded for Med�lla. "The Olympic version will be a little different. But it will fit the occasion, I think, because the song is all about how the ocean doesn't see boundaries between countries and thinks everyone is the same. Sj�n came up with this beautiful last line that touches on how we were all little jellyfish or whatever before we made it on to land. He has The Sea saying, 'Your sweat is salty / And I am why / Your sweat is salty / And I am why.'" (Bj�rk 13 Aug 2004) "It was good discipline of me [to try to not use beatboxers], because it made me do a lot of other things for rhythms, like including me and Mike Patton and people that aren't beatboxers at all, trying to do rhythms, patterns and beats - trying to come around it the other way. Even the beatboxers told me that they had never worked like that before, so I had them too go out of their normal way to do things. That was good. I kept Oceania til last, because I wanted to do it especially for the Olympics. It wasn't til the last day of mixing that I though - oh! I need the sirenes, if the Greek mythology! So we called up an English choir, and we got 16 women. I had done an arrangement for piano on the computer that was insane, impossible for a piano to play, and I got them to sing that, a bit like sirenes. Then I called up Shlomo, who was recommended to me as the new bright hope of the hiphop scene. He came the next day and I asked him to do a techno tango beat - which he did. That was the most fun part, in the end. Sometimes it's good for you to work with a gun against your head and just go for it, because you can sometimes sit too long with ideas. Sometimes adrenaline is a good thing." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Desired Constellation	Bj�rk	2005.05.05. 16:46
"Olivier Alary (Ensemble) had sent me a CD with a few sketches, and said "if you ever feel like using those, please do." A year later, I wrote this melody and was singing it in a cabin by a lake here in Iceland in january 2004. That was like the first little trips away from my little girl - I would go three hours a day to this cabin by the lake and do whatever I could and then drive back to town. I would sing several versions of this melody, and then I would say "wait a minute, this is this thing that Olivier gave me a year ago" so then I sang it to that and it fitted perfect together, it was really incredible! Then when I came back from the tour and discovered that the whole album was gonna be a vocal album, I thought "wait a minute, what about this song here, I really like this song and it should be on the album". So I started doing choir arrangements for it. I did a really complicated choir arrangement, for like a sixteen piece choir, and recorded it three times doing totally different things, and it was like 50 tracks of voices, but it just wasn't right, so I kept editing it on and spent like days and weeks editing it, and it never was right. Then I emailed Olivier and said "Listen, I've tried everything with this track, but I can't just be dogmatic about this album. At the end of the day, the best music's gotta win. So I think I'm just gonna stick to your old version, because I think that's still the best one." And then he just said "Guess what! I made it out of your own voice!" So he actually took a voice of mine, saying "I'm not sure what to do with it" from Hidden Place and did a song out of that! And then he sent it it to me, and didn't tell me, just in case I didn't .. you know, whatever... it was just a secret!" Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Submarine	Bj�rk	2005.04.24. 15:55
"He lives in Louth, and he has equiptment in his bedroom where he records himself and his albums. We brought a G4 and Pro Tools and recorded it in like one afternoon. He's such an extraordinary singer. Before he left, he insisted to give us a scale of his voice, where he sings all the tones - and he has the most amazing range, like 5 or 6 octaves. What's really interesting about his range is that each octave is of a totally different character. We actually ended up using that later for 'Oceania', we used what he calls the "Wyattron". Maybe this isn't a secret, but when I was pregnant and breastfeeding - what is great is that your nature tells all your cells to go on vacation now that the baby is the most important thing. It's a very humbling and gorgeous thing and a very healthy experience. But slowly after 6 months or so, the baby wouldn't mind being without you for an hour a day, a couple of month later two hours, and meet other kids and have relationships with other people than you. And mothers kinda have a hard time to let go too. It's an interesting stretch. And with my "submarine behaviour" ...the part of me that writes songs had gone dormant, and this song says it's time to wake it up and say "hello! wake up" - it's been hibernating, so it's a little bit of an alarm call." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Who Is It?	Bj�rk	2005.04.24. 15:51
"This is a song I wrote at the end on Vespertine, but I didn't put it there because I felt it was from a different family - Vespertine was introvert and shy and not very phycisal a record, and this was a very physical song that I wrote when I was feeling quite strong again. The words are kinda self-explanatory. This is the one song that Matmos helped me with - they did fruit-machine-noises that are in the choruses. Like when you put a coin in slotmachine and get three strawberries. So they made those noises with synthesizers that I later imitated with my voice. So I would like to thank Matmos very much for that input, thank you very much. That was the first song where Rahzel sang, and he did the beat in that song in one take. We just all fell on the floor, we couldn't believe it. There's no overdubs, no treatment - this is it. I felt quite proud -- if you're gonna have a human beatboxer, at least get the real thing. " Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - V�kur�	Jakob�na Sigurdardottir	2005.04.24. 15:46
The original version of this song can be found on the Smekkleysa release by J�runn Viðar - �ngl�ngurinn I Sk�ginum. "It probably means "Calm of being awake".. it's hard to explain. But it's basically a lullaby, and it's the one song on the album that is not by me, it's by an Icelandic composer who is like 80 years old now. There's a funny story for that song, because I wanted that song first to be on Vespertine, and there was this music box company that was making 12" copper plates where they drill holes into the plates that is the song, and it takes forever to do them. I got them first to do 'Pagan Poetry', then 'Aurora' and then 'Frosti'. Then I sent 'V�kur�' for them to do, because the cycle of this disk takes one minute - and 'V�kur�' has four verses which each take one minute, so it was perfect, and each verse goes slower and slower which makes sense, because most songs start slow and then go fast, but since this is a lullaby it starts fast and goes slower. But it takes them so long to drill the holes in the copper plates that I still haven't got it - so it missed Vespertine. So then we did this song for this album, and I called the composer and go "I just recorded this song, is it OK with you that I put it on my album?" and she goes "Yeah it's OK. You're obviously very influenced by your daughter." ...I go "...Yeah?". "Well she's got blue eyes, doesn't she?" and I couldn't really work out what that had to do with anything. Then we said goodbye, and then later I worked out that the song was actually sung to a little girl that has blue eyes. Four years ago when I wanted to do that song, and was having the battle with the musicbox-makers, there was no way I could have known that in four years time I would have a little girl with blue eyes. It's a little bit of a sentimental story." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Where Is The Line?	Bj�rk	2005.04.24. 15:43
"The vocals on this track actually aren't that manipulated, but they're edited alot. A lot of chopping. The sounds that probably sound most synthetic are actually Rahzel just doing those crazy noises - you don't believe it until you see him. But we did a lot of editing, we would get the noises and then place them in this track. I felt that with Rahzel, you need to do both the extremes. There's one song - 'Who Is It' - with him doing a live take through the whole song, nothing's edited or added on top, it's just one take. The other extreme is in this song, where you take Rahzel and edit him all the way and make some sort of collage that only could've been made with him, no-one else. The choir was fun too. There are sections in this song that obviously have reverb, but we didn't take it any further than that. There are some bass-sounds that are so heavy - that is actually Mike Patton. He is incredible, he has these effect boxes that usually guitars have on the floor and you step on them. He did the bass sort of heavy metal / death metal, then he put Octaver on it to make it an octave lower. So there's a bit of that too. I've been joking with my mates that I really wanted to do a headbang choir song. So I started this song doing the choir arrangements, and then I had to find the beat to match it. It was fun. It sorta made me think of 'Bohemian Rhapsody too', there's a bit of respect to Freddie. So people should be headbanging, then my dream would be fulfilled." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Show Me Forgiveness	Bj�rk	2005.04.24. 15:38
"I wrote the words probably in 1999, back when I was working in Denmark, and wrote the melody much later, and it wasn't until a lot later that I matched the two together. But I felt that I was gonna do a vocal album, and it was exciting because of how few toys you have. Then again, with the few toys you have, you have to try to do as many different things as possible -- maybe one song with a choir and a beatboxer and a throatsinger and a heavy metal guy, and the next song with just you and a throatsinger, and in the next song you're doing lots of backing vocals. Just to try to get all the colours. So I always knew that one song had to be just one voice, and that's it -- with the uncomfotableness of that too. Almost like when you are at a party and somebody stands up to do a speech and everybody is like "oh my god". You just say your bit, and then you sit down. So it has that feeling. At least I tried to do it." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Med�lla - Pleasure Is All Mine	Bj�rk	2005.04.24. 15:36
"When I made this track, it was the first time I left my little baby girl. I had gone to La Gomera, which is a small island part of the Canary Islands - one of the islands no tourists go to - and I'd found on the web this English guy who had a studio there, and I think I was the first client or something. So I turned up there with an engineer and my little girl, and then we planned it that -- she was like 14 months old -- and they were gonna leave four days before me, so I could for the first time jump off a cliff -- obviously not literally. Like when you're writing a song and you get possessed and you can't sleep for 40 hours 'til it's ready, and you don't have to worry about putting her to sleep and just be totally self-indulgent. So this song, for me, is really about the sensuality of just jumping in that pool again, of just you and the music, nobody else, and walking on the cliffs in La Gomera and just indulging in it, and then you can go in and you're singing and singing and singing and be obsessed with music." Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Greatest Hits - It's In Our hands	Bj�rk	2005.04.20. 18:24
Released as a single off the Greatest Hits in december 2002. Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - Unison	Bj�rk	2005.04.20. 18:20
Written by Bj�rk Published by Universal Music Publishing Produced by Bj�rk Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Programming by Matmos, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Damian Taylor, Guy Sigsworth & Bj�rk Harp Arrangement by Bj�rk Harp by Zeena Parkins String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza Choir Arrangement by Guy Sigsworth Protools/Recording Engineers: Jake Davies & Valgeir Sigurdsson Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - Harm of Will	Bj�rk, Guy Sigsworth & Harmony Korine	2005.04.20. 17:44
This song is written by Harmony Korine about Will Oldham. This is hinted at in the title of the song. Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - Heirloom	Bj�rk & Martin Console	2005.04.18. 17:19
This song is based on the song "Crabcraft" by Console. Written by Bj�rk & Martin Console Published by Universal Music Publishing/Flirt 99 Produced by Bj�rk & Martin Console Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Programming by Martin Console Vocals Recorded by Jake Davies Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - Sun in my mouth	Bj�rk & Guy Sigsworth	2005.04.18. 17:10
Written by Bj�rk & Guy Sigsworth Lyrics from "Impressions" by E. E. Cummings Produced by Bj�rk Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Programming by Valgeir Sigurdsson & Bj�rk Harp & Harp Arrangement by Bj�rk String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza Recording Engineer: Valgeir Sigurdsson The lines from "I will wade out/til My Thighs are steeped in burning flowers" copyright 1925, 1953, 1991 by the trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, Copyright 1976 by George James Firmage, from: "Complete Poems: 1940-1962" by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - An Echo, A Stain	Bj�rk & Guy Sigsworth	2005.04.18. 17:07
Lyrics based on Sarah Kane's play "Crave". Written by Bj�rk & Guy Sigsworth Published by Universal Music Publishing Produced by Bj�rk Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Beat Programming by Guy Sigsworth, Damian Taylor, Matmos & Marius de Vries Celeste by Guy Sigsworth Choir Arrangement by Guys Sigsworth & Vince Mendoza String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza Harp & Harp Arrangement by Zeena Parkins String Arrangement & Orchestration by Vince Mendoza Recording Engineers: Jake Davies & Valgeir Sigurdsson Tov�bb…

Bj�rk - Vespertine - Aurora	Bj�rk	2005.04.16. 16:56
Written by Bj�rk Published by Universal Music Publishing Produced by Bj�rk Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent Beat Programming by Matmos, Damian Taylor, Jake Davies & Bj�rk Additional Programming by Marius de Vries Bassline by Bj�rk Harp Arrangement by Bj�rk Harp by Zeena Parkins Protools/Recording Engineer: Jake Davies Tov�bb…

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