Performed by Björk and Robert Wyatt
Programming: Valgeir Sigurdsson

"He lives in Louth, and he has equiptment in his bedroom where he records himself and his albums. We brought a G4 and Pro Tools and recorded it in like one afternoon. He's such an extraordinary singer. Before he left, he insisted to give us a scale of his voice, where he sings all the tones - and he has the most amazing range, like 5 or 6 octaves. What's really interesting about his range is that each octave is of a totally different character. We actually ended up using…

"This is a song I wrote at the end on Vespertine, but I didn't put it there because I felt it was from a different family - Vespertine was introvert and shy and not very phycisal a record, and this was a very physical song that I wrote when I was feeling quite strong again. The words are kinda self-explanatory. This is the one song that Matmos helped me with - they did fruit-machine-noises that are in the choruses. Like when you put a coin in slotmachine and get three strawberries. So they made those noises with synthesizers that…

"It means "All the brightness". Because a lot of this album is a touch to when I was 18, on that farm, writing my first all-vocal songs - this is a step to how I would do those songs. At that point I was so shy, I wouldnt even sing in a language, I sortof had my own gibberish language. So a lot of foreigners probably think it's Icelandic, but it's not true, it's gibberish. It says "all the brightness" and me trying to break through a wall for the light to shne in - that sortof deep poetic stuff,…

The original version of this song can be found on the Smekkleysa* release by Jórunn Viðar - Únglíngurinn I Skóginum**.

*smekkleysa
**Únglíngurinn I Smóginum

"It probably means "Calm of being awake".. it's hard to explain. But it's basically a lullaby, and it's the one song on the album that is not by me, it's by an Icelandic composer who is like 80 years old now. There's a funny story for that song, because I wanted that song first to be on Vespertine, and there was this music box company that was making 12" copper plates where they drill holes into…

"The vocals on this track actually aren't that manipulated, but they're edited alot. A lot of chopping. The sounds that probably sound most synthetic are actually Rahzel just doing those crazy noises - you don't believe it until you see him. But we did a lot of editing, we would get the noises and then place them in this track. I felt that with Rahzel, you need to do both the extremes. There's one song - 'Who Is It' - with him doing a live take through the whole song, nothing's edited or added on top, it's just one take.…

Performed by Björk

"I wrote the words probably in 1999, back when I was working in Denmark, and wrote the melody much later, and it wasn't until a lot later that I matched the two together. But I felt that I was gonna do a vocal album, and it was exciting because of how few toys you have. Then again, with the few toys you have, you have to try to do as many different things as possible – maybe one song with a choir and a beatboxer and a throatsinger and a heavy metal guy, and the next song…

"When I made this track, it was the first time I left my little baby girl. I had gone to La Gomera, which is a small island part of the Canary Islands - one of the islands no tourists go to - and I'd found on the web this English guy who had a studio there, and I think I was the first client or something. So I turned up there with an engineer and my little girl, and then we planned it that – she was like 14 months old – and they were gonna leave four days before…

"I had to go to Denmark for a year. There was nothing going on. I was literally lying on the beach, looking at the ocean, with a ghetto blaster listening to Thomas Knak/Opiate's album. I realised he was from Copenhagen. I just called him up." Björk
- Record Collector, August 2002

Written by Björk & Thomas Knak
Published by Universal Music Publishing/Copyright Control
Produced by Björk & Thomas Knak
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent
Programming by Thomas Knak & Björk

2001 - Vespertine
> http://www.bjork.com/facts/lyrics/

"'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." Björk

Written by Björk, Guy Sigsworth & Mark Bell. Produced by Björk. Hidden Place was not so hidden as it was the first single to be taken from the fourth studio album Vespertine (2001). The video marked also a new beginning as M/M Paris co directed the…

"It's about getting plastered, that need to destroy everything so you can start over again. Having a lot in the planet Pluto, which I do, means you want to cut the crap, throw all the rubbish away No extra baggage. It's death and birth." Björk
- Raygun, September 1997

1997 - Homogenic
> http://www.bjork.com/facts/lyrics/