Harm Of Will

Harm Of Will
MI : Before we play some of the cds - a very interesting stack of cds - you’ve brought in, we thought we’d play a track from your latest album, ’Vespertine’, and we’ve selected - or I think you’ve selected -it - ’Harm of Will’. What is it about this track that makes it a particular favourite ? B : I guess it caught the mood I was after really well ; it was a challenge for me, I wanted to go really lyrical, so it wasn’t beat-orientated. And it was like freetime, and it was sort of poetry-based, as opposed to verse-chorus-verse-chorus. MI : There’s a very nice effect : it sound’s as though you’ve cut up your own breath ; it sounds like you’ve sampled your own breathing and cut it up, is that right ? B : Yeah, I took the vocal and... I’d just gotten into my laptop at the time ; I’d...

Mixing It, BBC Radio3, 17 march 2002

Harm Of Will
after writing "harm of will’ through improvisation i spent months writing the string arrangement ..….it was an important moment for me personally as a string arranger where i wasn’t going for maximum grandness, like the string melodies of the choruses "jóga" or "isobel" and went for a less melodic abstract approach i wanted it to be clouds of exaltation, erotic energy coming and going but then not committing or settling into anything solid

Björk - Octobre 2021