Atom Dance

Björk à propos de Atom Dance
I wanted to write a song about love in the most kind of universal way. Not in a personal way, like, uh, ode to love and I wanted to find the common thread in like Sufi and Vikivaki. And so I wrote the song in like 5/4 so it’s cyclical that could turn round and round and round kind of how some of the Sufi whirling dervishes when they’re turning in circles, the sort of trance you get into. This is actually the one song on Vulnicura which I spend most time in. And actually the oldest song in Vulnicura I wrote it, it almost made it to Biophilia. So it was when I was thinking about different rhythms and cyclical patterns and math. And then it didn’t make it to Biophilia because basically it took me like three years to write this one. Not constantly but I kept going back to it and improving...

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Björk à propos de Atom Dance
Biophilia. a little bit, but I felt it could live on Vulnicura because it could be like once you have healed then you’re out of the pain, the healing process. The destination of the celebration of love could be, uh, a good one. So, uh, maybe it’s a song that could live in both places. And also I tried to arrange “Atom Dance” for organ and gameleste and it sort of didn’t work. It needed more energy. So it was actually perfect to put the strings on it. ’Cause then you got energy. ’Cause it’s a very strange song, it’s kind of slow, but it needs to be slow and fast at the same time.

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