Pagan Poetry

Björk à propos du titre

pagan poetry is about meeting someone for the first time and falling in love and picking his subconcious energy, the rhythm, the pace, the grace, the gentle and the dark, and finding that one’s subconscious can easily match it and i wanted the harp arrangement to be about the embreoidery of love, when two people start weaving their core together i spent aeons on it might be my first sibelius soft ware
wet dream.

Concert du 31 octobre 2021

J’ai toujours voulu travailler avec des boîtes à musique, mais j’attendais la bonne occasion. Je les collectionne... mais le plus important c’était d’écrire ma propre chanson avec. Au départ, la compagnie des boîtes à musique n’était pas très enthousiaste. Depuis leur création, il fabrique des boîtes en bois et moi je voulais du plexiglas transparent. Avec le bois, le son est très doux et moi je voulais qu’il soit le plus dur possible, comme s’il était gelé. Au final, ils ont dit que c’était la meilleure chose qu’ils n’aient jamais faite.

Record Collector, Aout 2002

Crédits

Programmation : Björk, Jake Davies, Marius de Vries
Ligne de Basse : Björk
Arrangements boite à musique : Björk
Adaptation boite à musique : Jack Perron
Arrangement Harpe : Zeena Parkins, Björk

Graphisme
Photo : Nick Knight
Design : Marcus Werner
Police de caractères : Paul Barnes

Pagan Poetry
I’d always wanted to work with music boxes but it was waiting for the right occasion. I’de 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.

Record Collector, August 2002

Pagan Poetry
That’s probably the only song that’s full-bodied, with blood and muscle. There’s something rather uncomfortable about the experience of that song. It feels like an invasion of your privacy. Yeah. Hmmmm. I don’t know. When I hear that sort of stuff in other people’s work, I usually find it quite rewarding, so I wouldn’t look at it as uncomfortable. I would say that’s generous. But 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. An obvious question, then. Who are you referring to ? [Coquettishly] It’s so obvious, innit ? Matthew Barney, right ? [Smiling] I didn’t say a word.

Q Magazine, July 2001

Pagan poetry
pagan poetry is about meeting someone for the first time and falling in love and picking up his subconcious energy the rhythm, the pace, the grace, the gentle and the dark and finding that one’s subconscious can easily match it and i wanted the harp arrangement to be about this embroidery of love when 2 people start weaving their core together i spent aeons on it might be my first sibelius soft ware wet dream

Björk - Octobre 2021