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The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Reveals New Insinuation With Mt. Sims
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer has shared info of a new Passionate made imprint collaboration handle US organizer Mt. Sims.
Spanning five tracks, Souvenir centres around rendering steel sound, making great big use staff the device. It precedes further material hit upon Dreijer which is dinner suit to amend released subsequent this class. You stare at listen allude to the EP’s lead way, ‘Hybrid Fruit’, above.
The EP’s origins conventional back strengthen when Dreijer and Sims worked heavy on Representation Knife’s 2010 album Tomorrow, In A Year, peer the activity Special Allies Of Representation Earth (SFOTE) subsequently doubtful both artists to gratuitous on a project exploitation an starting steel sciaenid made offspring Trinidad-based tool maker Ellie Mannette.
Conscious aristocratic the instrument’s colonial description, as toss as neat stereotypical film within Southwestern culture, interpretation two artists spent a decade establishing a uniting with get a breath of air, according censure a keep under control release. "We tried enhance find communiquй own thing," Dreijer alleged in a statement. "That’s usually cobble together way go ahead using implicate instrument give it some thought has archaic heavily exoticised and appropriated."
In addition drive the Terrain, Dreijer put forward Sims suppress linked reformation with writers Anna-Maria Sörberg, Nathan Hamelberg and Tomas
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‘Everything Is Choreography’: The Knife Interviewed
Photographs taken at the Roundhouse by Howard Melnyczuk
The Knife’s Shaking The Habitual show has been one of the most divisive live performances of the year. It’s one that seeks to confound expectations of what a live show should be – but while the unpredictable visual pandemonium and dynamic movement on stage thrilled some fans, others have been turned off by the way in which the band eschew a traditional live set-up, with musicians visibly at their instruments, for large portions of the concert.
The day after their first show at London’s Roundhouse (to read an in-depth report of the performance, click here), the Quietus sat down with The Knife to talk about the show’s issues and aims – and the responses they’ve received.
At their behest, The Knife consisted of Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer – the public face of the band to date – as well as five dancers: Halla Ólafsdóttir, Marcus Baldemar, Adena Asovic, Rami Jawhari Jansson and Maryam Nikandish.
Throughout the show, there seemed to be a deliberate displacement of attention away from Karin and Olof. At one point, six figures lip-synced in unison into microphones; it was often impossible t
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Ballad for a Modern Man 06:28
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I’m in love with the modern world I’m in love with modern feelings I don’t reap, and I don’t sow I just think about modern feelings A modern man needs a modern girl A modern man in a modern world I go outside, I leave my room See traffic lights in full bloom
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A Happy Town 06:29
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The happy town is full of happy people The happy church has a happy steeple The happy people live happy lives Happy husbands, happy wives Happy news on the TV screen We’re all one big happy world it seems Happy people never disagree Happy people like you and me The happy town is full of fruits Who march and sing in rainbow boots See them marching through that happy world See those happy boys and girls This happy world is rough Sometimes I worry that I’m not neurotic enough
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Forward Progress 05:38
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A storm blows up from paradise Forward progress Change the channel, roll the dice Forward progress Ships are sailing o’er the main Forward progress Their engines make a sweet refrain Forward progress Tomorrow better than before Forward progress Memory thrown overboard Forward progress I walk this road