Who Is It

Björk à propos du titre Who Is It
C’est une chanson que j’ai écrite à la fin de Vespertine, mais je ne l’ai pas incluse dans l’album car je sentais qu’elle ne faisait pas partie de la même famille - Vespertine était plus introverti et timide, pas très physique alors que cette chanson est très physique, quand je me sentais plutôt forte. Les mots sont une sorte d’auto explication. Matmos y a contribué (ils ont fait les bruit de machine à fruit que l’on entend dans le refrain). Comme lorsque tu mets une pièce dans une machine et que tu obtiens 3 framboises. Ils ont donc créé ce son, que j’ai imité vocalement plus tard. Je tiens vraiment à remercier Matmos, merci beaucoup. C’est aussi la première chanson où Rahzel chante, et il a fait les beat en une seule prise. Nous sommes tous tombés à la renverse, c’était incroyable. Il n’y a aucun...

XFM 25/08/2004

Bogdan Raczynski à propos du titre Who Is It
"Nous nous sommes littéralement télescopés lors de l’un de mes concerts, je sautais verticalement, en essayant de renverser les tables je planais un max... et apparemment elle aussi", se souvient Bogdan. Quelques mois plus tard, Raczinski et Björk se revoyaient à New York et composaient le morceau intitulé "Who is it ?".

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Who is it
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 I later imitated with my voice. So I would like to thank Matmos very much for that input, thank you very much. That was the first song where Rahzel sang, and he did the beat in that song in one take. We just all fell on the floor, we couldn’t believe it. There’s...

XFM interview, August 25 2004

Who is it
I love the little things you’ve put on Medúlla, with synths and stuff—it was really great that you didn’t do that very much. And what was that bass line ? That was such a great one on “Who Is It ?“ It just links through like another character, but it sounds like a vocal. It’s really amazing. It is a mix between two things. There was a baritone called Gregory Purnhagen. I think he sang with Philip Glass and Meredith Monk, and he was really precise ! It was exciting to work with someone so professional. He did the drone almost like, you know—what do you call the people in the Himalayas ? The monks ! So he did that noise, and then we put it down an octave. Then there was Mike Patton, whose voice is a roar. He’s got many foot pedals when he sings. He would do some of this bass line, too, where...

Interview Magazine - 01.11.2004

Who is it
is about the celebration when you have found love and it completes you, make you back into what you were intended to be therefore "gave me back my crown" ... i was going for grandness in the arrangement trying to make it big and simple to match that mood

Björk - Octobre 2021