Fever Ray At Coachella 2010!
April 21, 2010 Posted by Eva at 2:29 pm
Dressed like techno druids in all black and pale white face paint with a stage set up of blinking vintage lamps, Fever Ray’s set at Coachella 2010 was typically visceral and totally unique. Lasers overhead caught the smoke in the air, transforming the stage into a swirling neon ocean. The music hewed pretty close to the low subliminal brood of Fever Ray’s self-titled debut, but with a few playful twists like extra synth loops and tom-tom drums.
With 70-minutes of macabre lighting, terrifying costumes and sweet-smelling incense smoke this wasn’t just another tranced-out DJ set: it was a horror film-inspired installation piece that celebrated an extremely productive twelve months for Karin which included the Fever Ray releases of ‘Fever Ray’ and ‘Live in Lulea’, as well as The Knife in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock’s electronic opera ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’.
Pre-Order new The Knife album and recieve instant digital download…
February 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 5:42 pm
Fans of The Knife rejoice: when you order a physical copy of their brand new album Tomorrow, in a Year (in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock), JB Hifi will also throw in the entire digital album via instant download! That means that even though it’s not out physically until March 5, you’ll be able to listen to all of the tracks from this 2CD set straight away!
To pre-order the album from JB Hifi, click here. And for more info on the release, click here.
New from The Knife: “Tomorrow, In A Year”
January 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 4:15 pm
The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, are to release their new album “Tomorrow, In A Year”, the studio version of their opera based on the works of Charles Darwin.
Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book ‘On the Origin of the Species’, The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme.
They extensively researched Darwin related literature and articles, with Olof attending a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and to record sounds. ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ is a unique musical project. Richard Dawkins’s gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition, artificial sounds have been mixed with field recordings, with the music inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne. These are compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.
Pushing the experimental process further still, composer, choreographer, costume designer and set designer worked separately, only coming together 3 and a half months before the first performance of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ in Copenhagen on the 2nd September 2009. Described as “shifting the position of operartic art in a single leap”, future performances of ‘Tomorrow, In A Year’ are confirmed to take place in Athens (8-9 Jan), Stockholm (29 Jan-1 Feb), and Munster (5 June), with further dates to be announced.
Olof Dreijer says: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in The Knife but never in such a clear way.”
Album ‘Tomorrow, in a Year’ will be released on 5th March 2010 on etcetc Music.
Stream single ‘Colouring Of Pigeons’ now from www.theknife.net.
For your Hottest 100 consideration…
January 11, 2010 Posted by Eva at 11:53 am
2009 was a big year for etcetc: Lost Valentinos, Fever Ray, Two Door Cinema Club, autoKratz, Duck Sauce, Cassius, Beni, Datarock, Jenny Wilson, MSTRKRFT, Jump Jump Dance Dance…we could go on. Now that it’s time to vote in the Triple J Hottest 100, may we present our extremely biased list of the top songs of ‘09:
Happy Halloween from Fever Ray…
October 30, 2009 Posted by Eva at 4:51 pm
Halloween has come early for fans of Karin Dreijer Anderson, aka Fever Ray.
First up is a creepy new podcast she prepared for Resident Advisor along with her friends Van Rivers (who recently remixed Jenny Wilson), The Subliminal Kid and Flash.
And here’s the equally spooky new video for Karin’s cover of Nick Cave’s Stranger than Kindness:
Fever Ray: coming to America…
May 11, 2009 Posted by Eva at 12:27 pm
“Andersson holds her audience utterly spellbound” – Drowned In Sound
“…pulls you inexorably into the darkness of her world” - The Guardian
After a string of acclaimed live shows around Europe, Fever Ray is heading over to the US and Canada in September/October. Venues will include NYC’s iconic Webster Hall, where Andersson’s other project, The Knife, played two sold out dates for their US debut.
Karin will be supported by a 4 piece band, with visuals masterminded by Swedish multimedia artist Andreas Nilsson who designed The Knife’s live show and directed the creepy video for If I Had a Heart.
USA and Canada Tour Dates:
Sept 28 – Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Sept 29 – Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Oct 1 – Metropolis, Montreal
Oct 2 – Kool Haus, Toronto
Oct 3 – Metro, Chicago
Oct 5 – Grand Ballroom, San Francisco
Oct 7 – Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles
The Knife do Darwin…
April 22, 2009 Posted by Eva at 11:39 am
Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer Andersson has added yet another string to her already impressive bow.
Along with Danish performance collective, Hotel Pro Forma, Karin’s band The Knife have helped to create Tomorrow, in a Year – A Darwin Opera. No, it’s not a tribute to Australia’s youngest city. It’s an experimental performance piece featuring elements of electronica pop, classical opera and performance, commemorating the 150 year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s influential The Origin of Species. Premiering in Copenhagen in September, the production has no dates scheduled outside of Denmark as yet.
And as if that isn’t enough Euro-envy for our Fever Ray fans, may we direct you towards a few gushing live reviews from Fever Ray’s European dates.
Fever Ray coming to a European city near you
March 31, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:46 am
10 Apr Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam
11 Apr The Royal Festival Hall, London
20 Jun Sonar By Night, Barcelona
03 Jul Roskilde Festival, Roskilde
04 Jul Arvika Festival, Arvika
12 Aug Öyafestivalen, Oslo, Oslo
14 Aug Way Out West, Göteborg
16 Aug Flow, Helsinki
Fever Ray Tour 2009 from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
Fever Ray on Pitchfork
March 31, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:38 am
Influential independent online magazine Pitchfork has reviewed Fever Ray‘s self-titled debut album, giving the record 8.1 out of 10!
Below is an excerpt from the review, which says of the album – “committed listens will reveal this to be as nuanced and as rich of a production as anything either Dreijer has done.”
Pitchfork Best New Music, March 20, 2009
“The highlights are many. Opener “If I Had a Heart” is a shivering, timely meditation on greed, immorality, and lust for power that dovetails nicely with AIG and Madoff (”This will never end cause I want more/ More, give me more, give me more”); “I’m Not Done” is a pressurized squall that culminates with Karin dueting with a helium-voiced version of herself; while seven-minute closer “Coconut” rumbles on a pattern of synths and staccato drums before a ceremonious wall of voices arrive at the midpoint to march it to a close. Except, “close” implies it was written: the more time you spend with Fever Ray, the more you become convinced that these songs aren’t written so much as they’re temporarily let out. They’re too starved, too eerie, and too transfigured to have been anything but.”
‘When I Grow Up’ video online now
February 17, 2009 Posted by admin at 9:40 am
The video for When I Grow Up by Fever Ray has premiered this morning at feverray.com
When I Grow Up is a slow-burning, beat-driven and strangely optimistic number characterised by Karin’s inimitable lyrical style, name-checking forestry, boomerangs, crab claws and cucumbers in a surprisingly domestic picture. The video itself, directed by Martin De Thurah, is a melting pot of references from David Lynch to Stephen King’s Carrie, with a profound feeling of voyeurism and foreboding.
Speaking about the conception of the video, De Thurah had this to say:
“The initial idea was about something coming out of water – something which was about to take form – a state turning into something new. And a double headed creature not deciding which way to turn. But the idea had to take a simpler form, to let the song grow by itself. I remembered a photo I took in Croatia two years ago, a swimming pool with its shining blue color in a grey foggy autumn landscape.”
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