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About This Track
“I’d always wanted to work with music boxes but it was waiting for the right occasion. I’d been collecting them and stuff. The main thing was that I wanted to write my own songs in music boxes.
In the beginning, the music box company weren’t very excited. They’d made wooden boxes for eons and I wanted see-through plexiglass. They couldn’t get their head round it - they were like ‘Why?’
They wanted to make the plonky sound softer with wood but I wanted it as hard as possible, like it was frozen. In the end, they said it was the best thing they’d ever done.”
“It’s about wanting to communicate, for sure. It’s less cocoon-ish than the rest of the songs . It’s definitely wanting to tell someone something.”
“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 Björk.”
Pagan Poetry is written and produced by Björk. 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 Björk for the Homogenic cover image. Production: Gainsbury & Whiting. Director of Photography: Simon Chaudoir.
In the beginning, the music box company weren’t very excited. They’d made wooden boxes for eons and I wanted see-through plexiglass. They couldn’t get their head round it - they were like ‘Why?’
They wanted to make the plonky sound softer with wood but I wanted it as hard as possible, like it was frozen. In the end, they said it was the best thing they’d ever done.”
“It’s about wanting to communicate, for sure. It’s less cocoon-ish than the rest of the songs . It’s definitely wanting to tell someone something.”
“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 Björk.”
Pagan Poetry is written and produced by Björk. 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 Björk for the Homogenic cover image. Production: Gainsbury & Whiting. Director of Photography: Simon Chaudoir.
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Jhowkun wrote:
I love the harp. There's no other song like this. And probably never will be. [3]
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One of the most beautiful songs ever composed. Unimaginably powerful. [2]
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There's no other song like this. And probably never will be.
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I love him
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Howll_ wrote:
I love him, I love him, she loves him, she loves him.
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She is one of a kind!<3333
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esquelet wrote:
Favorite forever. ∞
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One of my favorites :) [3]
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nightstage wrote:
Björk's oh so beautiful masterpiece
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tyuig64 wrote:
This is so unbelievably good.
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CraftyRaccoon wrote:
This is freaking beautiful.
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ivona_b wrote:
right to the "darkest pit in me"
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adelwinkler wrote:
the instrumentation totally reminds me of the x-files theme song! especially the intro and the breaks...
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jasminder82 wrote:
Uh, this is Hidden Place, not Pagan Poetry. WTF last.fm?
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RonZol wrote:
Excellent!
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yan__s wrote:
They love her, they love her, they love her, they love her. She's genious.
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I love her, I love her, I love her, I love her <3333
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One of my favorites :) [2]
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ready to listen this forever
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