Updates
2010-03-12
Monsieur Moose has
updated the website, you can now for example find new interviews and reviews in
that section.
News on opera
2010-01-06 *updated 2010-01-19*
The Knife has today made information on the "Tomorrow in a Year"-collaboration.
It will be released as a double disc on February 26th 2010, and as a download on
January 28th. The track listing is as
follows:
01. Intro
02. Epochs
03. Geology
04. Upheaved
05. Minerals
06. Ebb Tide Explorer
07. Variation of Birds
08. Letter to Henslow
09. Schoal Swarm Orchestra
CD 2
01. Annie’s Box
02. Tumult
03. Colouring of Pigeons
04. Seeds
05. Tomorrow in a Year
06. The Height of Summer
Bonus track
07. Annie's Box (alt. vocal)
You can also get a free download
of the track "Colouring of Pigeons" if you are a member of The Knife's mailing
list.
The Knife honored
2009-12-18
The Knife has received Expressen's (a daily Swedish newspaper)
music award "Spelmannen" of 2009. This anual award has been given out since
1957. The Knife got the following motivation from the jury: "With visual live
performances and a knife sharp artistic integrity Karin and Olof Dreijer opens
the door to romance and to avantgarde. When the door shuts behind the watcher it
leaves you floating around in a Matrix-like state. Delighted and frightened we
participate in a masked game that is acting in the hidden."
New The Knife album
2009-09-22 *updated 2010-01-04*
The Knife will release a studio version of the music from the opera "Tomorrow in a Year" in January 2010. The music for the opera was written by The Knife together with Mount Sims and Planningtorock.
*update* The album is
to be released digitally on February 1st. And as a double CD album in March
2010.
Fever Ray on compilation
2009-05-29
Fever Ray will be on a
forthcoming compilation CD titled "Musiken Vi Hatar" ("Music We Hate"). On
it Swedish artists will do covers of songs they don't like, and sometimes
hate. Fever Ray's song is "Here Before" from Vashti Buynyan, which has been
performed during her tour. Among the other participants on this project are
Familjen, Håkan Lidbo, Andreas Tilliander and Ebb. The CD will be released
on June 10th.
Opera going abroad
2009-05-06 *updated 2009-08-24*
The opera, "Tomorrow in a Year" will be performed on more places than just Copenhagen, where the premiere is September 2nd (with shows 4-5 Sept.) It is now booked on more locations:
Château Rouge, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Switzerland
11 – 12 Sept. 2009
Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts Dresden, Germany
8 – 9 Oct. 2009
The Concert Hall Aarhus, Denmark
27–28 Nov. 2009
Dansens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
29-31 Jan. 2010
Ticket for all performances are already on sale. Also there are plans of
releasing a studio version of the opera in early 2010.
More from Karin
2009-01-10 *updated 2009-02-16*
Karin will appear
on Røyksopp's
forthcoming release "Junior", it will be out in March. Karin will be
singing on "This Must Be It" and "Tricky Tricky".
A 7" single of "If I Had a Heart" will be released on the 26th of
January with some remixes. Also a tour with shows in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark is official, more in the Fever Ray-part.
A second video has been released
"When I Grow Up".
Karin to sing more
2008-08-03 *updated 2008-12-15*
According to the
Swedish pop magazine, Sonic, Karin has a solo project in the works under the
name Fever Ray. It is said to be out "early 2009".
*update* A single, "If I Had A Heart". was released digitally 15th of
December, and can by bought via
www.klicktrack.com
The CD "Fever
Ray" will be released on the 18th of March in Sweden, 23rd-24th in the U.K. and
US. A video, directed by Andreas Nilsson, will be released January 6th.
New The Knife project
2008-11-25
The Knife are
writing a opera. The Swedish band The Knife and Danish Hotel Pro Forma are
making a opera to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's
publication of his "On the Origin of Species". The opera will be named "Tomorrow
in A Year". The Knife will do music and libretto while other will work on the
visuals and choreography. "Tomorrow in A Year" will be premiered in September
2009.
Karin remixes
2008-04-26
Karin has a remix on the forthcoming "The Jacket" 12" release by First Floor Power. It will be released on Crunchy Frog (Sweden) the 5th of May.
Karin sings
2008-03-10
Karin is featured on a song on the forthcoming CD with Belgian group dEUS. The song is
entitled "Slow". A video has been made for the song. The record, "Vantage Point", is set to be released on the 21st of April.
New release from Rabid
Today Frau Rabid announced that Rabid Record will release First Aid Kit's debut EP, "Drunken Trees" on April 9th. The band consists of siblings Klara and Johanna Söderberg from Stockholm. You can hear their music here. Olof remixes
Olof will remix a track for the forthcoming remix-CD with Nine Inch Nails, entitled "
Monsieur Moose has updated the Forest Families-site with both a promo discography and a small list of covers that has been done of The Knife's songs. Both of these can be found under the "discography & lyrics"-link. If there happens to be anything missing then contact Forest Families and it'll be added.
The Knife win two SAMA's
Yesterday, The Knife won two awards from SAMA (Scandinavian Alternative Music Awards). They were nominated for three awards ("song of the year", "album of the
year" and "artist of the year"). "Marble House" won the "song of the year"-award and the "Silent Shout"-album won "album of the year". Covenant, on the other
hand, won "artist of the year". The Knife did not attend the award show and SAMA jokingly said that Karin and Olof couldn't make it since they were at a scaby pizzeria in
Sundbyberg (a suburb in Stockholm), but it should be regarded as nothing more than sarcasm.
Monsieur Moose was at SAMA and took pictures of the awards that are shown below.
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