The Knife have new music!
Jan 6, 2010, 2:53 PM | Updated: Apr 5, 2011, 7:46 pm
The Knife have released a brand new track called ‘Colouring of Pigeons’, a song from their operatic composition Tomorrow, In A Year, in which they have collaborated with Mt Sims and Planningtorock and the sound is absolutely huge. Operatic in fact, go figure. The Knife were 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’. It’s less electronic than The Knife’s previous work but it definately has a familiar feel especially when Karin makes her presence known and we hear her unmistakable croon. This is what Olof had to say about writing for the opera…
“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.â€
The Tomorrow, In A Year album is to be released digitally 2/2 and physically 3/9 via Mute. I can’t wait!
Tracklist:
CD 1
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)
thanks to prettymuchamazing.com for the heads up
