#kasimyn

[your-worst-boy]

[cosmonautistic]

I've cried on every album by Björk. It's not intentional but there's something fundamental about how she shares her perspective of what it means to be human.

I'm currently on Fossora and the first song "Atopos"... Tears. At first, I thought it was experimental but maybe not my style. More so than Utopia or most of Vulnicura but a little lacking for my preferences.

Then I read the lyrics and searched her intention.

Tears.

Truly an amazing ability to produce so much emotion with such an experimental sound when you have a bird's eye view and consider the fullness of everything.

[carlosgplx]

ATOPOS (2022) björk + Vidar Logi

[naifphbn]

björk & kasimyn, garden theater, Tokyo 2023

[cosmonautistic]

"For me it is a good intro …. kinda like an id sound card sonically this is a heavy bottom-ended bass world. We have 6 bass clarinets and punchy sub drilling, nesting and digging us into the ground.

We all just went through an unique moment together, where we quarantined and stayed long enough in one place that we shot down roots.

I tried to capture this feeling sonically, i described the sound to the musicians as my mushroom album : tree roots and mycelium spreading deep into the soil.

The lyrics to atopos are what roland barthes describes so magnificently in his book “a lover’s discourse”. It is about the binary spirit of human nature … left versus right, man versus woman and so on but the theme of the song is to overcome differences and unite."

Björk — Atopos

[cosmonautistic]

Are these not just excuses to not connect? Our differences are irrelevant To only name the flaws Are excuses to not connect

I bow to all that you've given me Thank you for staying while we learn To find our resonance where we do connect To find our resonance where we do connect

If we don't grow outwards towards love We'll implode inwards towards destruction If my plant doesn't reach towards you There's internal erosion towards all Pursuing the light too hard is a form of hiding

Are these not just excuses to not connect? Our differences are irrelevant To insist on absolute justice at all times It blocks connection

Our union is stronger, our union is stronger than us Hope is a muscle That allows us to connect Hope is a muscle Hope is a muscle Hope is a muscle Hope is a muscle That allows us to connect

— Björk, Atopos

[cosmonautistic]

Like a virus needs a body As soft tissue feeds on blood Some day I'll find you The urge is here

Like a mushroom on a tree trunk As the protein transmutates I knock on your skin, and I am in

The perfect match You and me I adapt, contagious You open up, say welcome

Like a flame that seeks explosives As gunpowder needs a war I feast inside you, my host is you

The perfect match, you and I You fail to resist My crystalline charm

Like a virus, patient hunter I'm waiting for you I'm starving for you

My sweet adversary My sweet adversary My sweet adversary

[cosmonautistic]

During the pandemic I listened to a lot of Afrobeat coming from Central and East Africa. You know: Nigeria, Uganda… So, for the base of “Atopos” I programmed the base of Afrobeat myself and later we polished it in a session I had in Barcelona. But, if we think about it, it is not unreasonable to say that there is also Reggaeton there. I don’t know if you know but after Biophilia I lived in Puerto Rico for almost a year and at that time – or rather always – Reggaeton was very present in the nightlife of San Juan, which inevitably resonated with me and stayed with me in my music memory. In the end, and Afrobeat are family and belong to a spectrum with which I am in constant communication thanks to artists like Arca. — Björk