Hidden Place

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...

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