Écriture :Leila et Björk Programmation :Leila Production : Björk Arrangement et édition : Björk Chant : Björk
Storm
That’s actually a piece that has a bit of a story. I am stubborn when I write songs that I sometimes don’t find the right place, you know, and I wait for the right moment, and am protective of them like children.
Like for example "Army Of Me," that came out in ’95 on Post that I wrote with Graham Massey in ’91 or ’92. So in theory it could have gone on Debut, which is an album I did two years before, but it just didn’t belong in that family.
So the "Storm" song is a song I did write before with Leila Arab, and was written with Medúlla in mind. I told Leila that I wanted to do a vocal-only album, so she did sample, and I basically sampled my voice. Both stuff I had sung before, but also while I was singing she would both put my voice through effects and also repeat and loop stuff....
BBC Radio 3, Mixing It, 5 august 2005
Storm
The original performances were a pretty analog experience, but I worked on this a lot in Pro Tools. Whatever Leila was doing had also leaked into my microphone, so you had to basically do crossfades to blend the vocal and effects. I think there are ten edits in it, using maybe six or seven concerts. We could have gone back into the studio and recorded it again, but I wanted that live, urgent feeling, because the majority of the movie is very subdued. I thought the mood needed that kind of raw energy.
