2ème Single de Volta
La presse à propos du titre
Timbaland pousse, et pousse encore, un beat qui va chercher dans un souffle humain synthétisé et dans les likembés torturés de Konono N°1 un matériau de propulsion pétaradant, un turbo rare. Une carlingue d’hyperespace qui survole dans un crachat de feu les émotions d’une Björk chantant les délices de la peur. Le titre le plus serré, crissant, de l’album.
Vibrations music 04/2007
Another of the Timbaland co-writes is Innocence, which speaks of uninhibited youth and how it becomes more thrilling when you become older and more afraid. « I guess it’s a handshake with fear. When you’re 19, things don’t enter your mind. You’re untouchable. Later you’re like, ‘Whoa, what can I learn from experience ?’ »
The Sun, 05/05/2007
(...) Innocence we edited more, exaggerated all the stops and starts, tightened it up, and I wrote the middle eight into it.
metromix.com, 08/05/2007
Björk à propos du titre
I’m not sure if ’Hope’ is about feminism. It is trying to understand how a pregnant suicide bomber feels, more than about he cause she is fighting for. I don’t take a stand politically. I write about emotion.
Björk Under The Radar Magazine, 2008
Jimmy Douglass à propos de l’enregistrement d’Innocence
Timbaland and Danja were making some beats on the spot while we were in the control room. Björk got excited and said, ’Give me a mic.’ My go-to mic in the control room is the Audio Technica AT4060 Condenser Tube Microphone, so that’s what I set up in front of her. She just started singing to the beats that they were making. It was all very organic and spontaneous. Much of what you hear on the finished track is what she came up with, right then and there, and sang on a first pass. She was writing in her head, right in front of us. it was inspiring and very ’Björk’ I would say.
audio-technica.co.jp
OLI press release
« ‘Innocence’ sees Björk at her passionate and inventive best, and comes with a thumping backbeat that continues where her last single ‘Earth Intruders’ left off. Bristling with intense energy this song sees Björk firmly on the march.
Taken from her new album ‘Volta’, ‘Innocence’ is written and produced by Björk, along with Timbaland and Danja. Meanwhile, the single sleeve also comes with another stunning Nick Knight shot of Björk in the statue especially designed by Bernhard Willhelm for the cover art of ‘Volta’.
Björk has also commissioned several brand new mixes of ‘Innocence’ by Simian Mobile Disco, Carsten Nicolai and Ghost Digital which. »
Crédits
Musique
Ecriture, production : Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley, Floyd Nathanial "Danja" Hills & Björk
Programmation : Damian Taylor, Pete Davis & Björk
Ingénieurs du son : Damian Taylor & Michael Pärt
Clavier : Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley
Graphisme
Photo : Inez+Vinoodth
Design : M/M (Paris)
Remix
| Innocence (Alva Noto Unitxt Remodel 12") | 6:16 | Alva Noto |
| Innocence (Ghostigital Untouchable Innocence Still Amazes 12") | 5:30 | Ghostigital |
| Innocence (Ghostigital Untouchable Innocence Still Amazes extended version) | 5:59 | Ghostigital |
| Innocence (Jimmy Douglas Mix) | 4:29 | Jimmy Douglass |
| Innocence (Mark Stent Instrumental) | 4:25 | Mark ’Spike’ Stent |
| Innocence (Mark Stent Radio Edit) | 4:21 | Mark ’Spike’ Stent |
| Innocence (Simian Mobile Disco 12") | 7:47 | Simian Mobile Disco |
| Innocence (Simian Mobile Disco Dub) | 7:46 | Simian Mobile Disco |
| Innocence (Simian Mobile Disco Remix Radio Edit) | 4:11 | Simian Mobile Disco |
| Innocence (Sinden remix) | 4:32 | Sinden |
