Hidden Place

La presse à propos du titre

Not so long ago, the government of Iceland gave Bjork her own island in recognition of her services to music – and the ethereal landscape seems to have affected her rather. This is ethereal. Seriously fairy. What little percussion there is isn’t at all normal and is subdued almost immediately by very spooky, female-Yorke-esque vocals and just general weirdness. As a chill-out tune it’s superb. As casual listening it’s lacking something, i.e., casualness, but hey. It’s perfect Bjork, really, and the best work she’s done since the Dancer in the Dark soundtrack. Pretty good, actually, once you relax enough to let it penetrate…

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Hidden Place’ is about love in a cold climate, about retreating from it all with a certain someone : “I’m simply so close / to calling you up / I’m simply suggesting / we go to that hidden place”. she purrs over gentle, sweeping, skittering electro. So fresh and so clean, the music is like a cool, sharp breath of fresh air. Spacious like empty, ice-blue Icelandic skies ; pretty like tiny, brightly colourful tundra flowers. A song, a wish to shut the door against the snow and the howl of the outside and to wrap up snugly together. A Venus and a boy in furs. Drifting into a private world whilst snowflakes melt on eyelashes. And, at last, freedom.

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Björk à propos du titre Hidden Place
J’imagine que "Hidden Place" est en quelque sorte la façon dont deux personnes peuvent créer un paradis juste en s’unissant. Vous avez un lien émotionnel en commun. Et il est incassable. Et évidemment, c’est une illusion. On pourrait donc penser qu’il n’existe pas parce qu’il est invisible, mais bien sûr qu’il existe.

CDnow, 27 juillet 2001

Hidden Place
I guess ’Hidden Place’ is sort of about how two people can create a paradise just by uniting. You’ve got an emotional location that’s mutual. And it’s unbreakable. And obviously it’s make-believe. So, you could argue that it doesn’t exist because it’s invisible, but of course it does. And it’s sort of a one-nil situation. Or, if you believe in something high enough - I mean, maybe at first when you mention it, and you talk about it and it doesn’t exist. It might be artificial, but you just keep on believing in it and it grows strong. It’ll become real, you know. And I guess that’s something, sort of the human spirit conquering the dullness and boredom.

CDnow, July 27 2001

Hidden Place
I guess the microbeats were from me getting heavily into my laptop and just trying to enjoy the music from its speakers. The songs on Vespertine are introvert. I tried to make it frozen, winterlike. It’s an inside album, a domestic album, I had loads and loads of beats for ’Hidden Place’ but it still wasn’t up enough. Matthew Herbert came for a visit in the studio and offered to do it. He ran away to his studio and came back after a few hours later with a DAT.

Record Collector, August 2002, August 2002

Hidden Place
hidden place was written falling secretly in love with someone and not being able to express is. so i wanted to make the arrangement a thick current, that is suppressed underground like taboo taboo taboo. .….. unexpressed love . a hidden muscular fossorial snake...

Björk - Octobre 2021