You're singing a duet with Thom Yorke from Radiohead in "I've seen it all" on the new album. Is he an intense personality as well?
Yes, but in a very different way. I respect him very much. He's very shy and uncertain and doesn't reveal too much of himself. That's why it's quite hard for me to explain what he's like. I can't do him justice. But he's a very special person.
When he enters a room he affects the whole atmosphere in a very positive way. I also admire his great loyalty towards his band. He sees himself as a member and writer of Radiohead. His work is based on communication and understanding. He's very down-to-earth and not egocentric at all.
We worked together for three or four days, which I'm very grateful about. We worked together with songs, which I had worked on during three years not knowing what to do with them. Thanks to him these songs saw a new light of day and that was a wonderful experience.
Yago: When you recorded "I've Seen It All" for Selmasongs with Thom Yorke in the studio, was there an instant click? What was it like, being in the studio with him?
Bjork: We've known about each other for a while. [We were] always just about to do something together, and we were just waiting for the right situation. I was really excited about this song; I thought that I finally had a song that deserved his voice, 'cause he's definitely my favorite male singer in the world. I asked him, and he being the kind of guy he is, full of integrity — there's not a grain of artificial, show-business behavior in him — he kind of insisted that he would turn up [in the studio] and be there for quite a while, so the communication in the song, the recording, was real and genuine. It wasn't just a turn-it-on, you know, "I recorded my bit in Las Vegas and he recorded his..." you know, [like] we never met or something. It was the opposite, and that actually came from him, 'cause I was all just kind of being in work mode, "Yeah, we have to get it done," and he was all, "No, no, no."
I guess that comes from him being in a band. At that stage, he just finished [Radiohead's Kid A], so he'd done three years of being in a room with five people, and it's all about communication. You can be playing a song, but if you're absentminded, it's not good. It's all about the actual effort you make to bond with someone.
So yeah, we sung for, like, four days, a few hours a day — maybe I'm exaggerating; I'm not sure, truthfully — until we came to that place. Because I think the way I sang that song was pretty [Bjork makes explosion sound], and for him, it's a very different approach. He made me sing it differently. It's kind of more sensitive and more in touch, you know. I was very flattered by his effort.
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[показать]Немного странно, но наверное, закономерно, что все члены группы слушают разную музыку, из перечисленного ниже я, например, люблю только moloko, r.e.m. и tricky....
thom yorke (thomas edward yorke) любит слушать r.e.m., dj shadow.
jonny greenwood (jonathan richard guy greenwood) любит pink floyd, can.
ed o'brien (edward john o'brien) любит the beatles, moloko.
colin greenwood (colin charles greenwood) любит r.e.m., ennio morricone.
phil selway (phillip james selway) любит tricky, supergrass.
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