join me in anticipating musics by FEVER RAY (aka one half of the knife)

to be fair, the secret url is pretty clever ; )

Thx for the link, Bill A! (brotherlovesdub, be sure to download from that link, it's the complete thing, yours wasn't)

glad to share - it's interesting to hear how Karin approaches the vocals live, when I saw them in July I remember feeling a bit like Whitey upthread ie. some of the high/low contrast is lost.

Not sure if this has been mentioned previously, but there was an interview in the Guardian yesterday in which Karin says she plans to retire the Fever Ray project once their shows this year are done. A real shame imo, this album has been one of my favourites of the year.

thanks, got it

It's sad if there will be no new Fever Ray records, I certainly liked this project more than The Knife, and was expecting for it to continue. (Which isn't so say The Knife is bad or anything, but FR was more my thing.) Hopefully she'll do some other solo projects in the future.

that interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/22/fever-ray-karin-dreijer-andersson

Then again, Dreijer Andersson seems perplexed by a lot of things you might consider straightforward. For years, she was rigorously opposed to the idea of playing live: "It was very provocative for Olaf and me, when everybody was saying, you have to play live or else you're not a band, blah blah blah. You start to think, why is this so important? I think it's very strange that people who are musicians and composers … I don't think it has anything to do with performing."

She eventually relented – the Knife played a handful of live shows, albeit concealed behind screens, while Fever Ray have thus far clocked up "about 50 performances" – but still has an idiosyncratic approach to performing, which extends to fantasising about not turning up at all. "I think it's very interesting to play with the idea of au-then-ti-ci-ty," she says, carefully. "With the Knife and Fever Ray, I could send some other people out there instead of me and nobody would see any difference. And that's very funny."

I'm totally with her on that one.

I wanted to send a bunch of other people out to perform in my place in support of mine own upcoming album, ha ha.

that mix of the royksopp single with karin included in the new Aeroplane October promo mix is fantastic.

(that's The Bloody Sisters Remix of This Must Be It, btw fyi)

aeroplane?

http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove

The only video I haven't liked so far is 'Seven'. Seems to me like it's trying too damn hard to resemble the style of the other videos without really succeeding.

ta, stanm

she's done a podcast for RA http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=178

awes, I've been holding onto Coldcut's halloween-themed podcast to re-listen to this year too

i have started to listen to that podcast and it sounds awesome.

podcast is great, really really great

droney stuff, cartoon vocoder solos, weird folk, nww type shit... lovely

can anyone id the track with the housey villalobos-ish groove and sadface sax

Didn't you get the tracklist?

01. Neil Young - Guitar Solo 1
02. Yo La Tengo - Everyday
03. Journey To Ixtlan - Corpse On The Mesa
04. Jad & David Fair - Nosferatu
05. Zola Jesus - Devil Take You
06. Bruce Haack - Mean Old Devil
07. Krause - Duo Canopolis
08. Burial Hex - Will To Chapel
09. Suicide - Ghost Rider
10. Amadou & Miriam - Ja Pense À Toi
11. Shackleton - Death Is Not Final
12. Entombed - Night Of The Vampire
13. Maddalena Fagandini - Interval Signals
14. Burundi: Musiques Traditionnelles - Chant Avec Cithare

d'oh i always forget to scroll down that far

I was really excited with the idea of the RA podcast when it came out 2 weeks ago but listened to it a few hours ago and it put me off after a the 4th or 5th track. I really wish it was less... inconsistent.

i do wish the various remixes were on cd single(s) ...

Apparently Rough Trade will have an exclusive new remix/mix CD (they're doing a thing where their top 10 albums of the year will be sold with bonus discs of material exclusive to them). Not sure what this could consist of, but exciting nonetheless.

(this is according to the Rough Trade Twitter page, incidentally)

she covered 'mercy street' live (nb: mp3 didn't work in itunes for me when i tried it)

http://no-conclusion.blogspot.com/2010/01/fever-ray-mercy-street-live.html

oh man mercy street is an all-timer id love to hear her version

it's very good (i got it to work in lol windows media player)

Sounds cool, can't wait to listen to the tune! This seems to prove the Peter Gabriel influence on FR I was suggesting upthread.

dunno what's up with that file, but reading it in and back out with fission seems to have made it itunes-friendly: http://www.mediafire.com/?jmj1y2tn2jd

oh this is ill thank you caek

x

surprised you didn't just email karin tbh

were on the outs

She makes me think of Stevie Nicks on that.
How good a singer she is is easy to overlook because of the effects

Go to here:

http://svtplay.se/t/104018/p3_guld_2010

Scroll ahead to the 45 minute mark, and watch.

She's an odd girl.

whoa

How good a singer she is is easy to overlook because of the effects

also because of her timbre; it's totally the Bjork effect, where there's a quirkiness in the vocal production that is so attractive or repellent to the audience that a lot of people gloss over the technical mastery behind the vocal production

She's an odd girl.

I don't think it was her, or at least she didn't have long dreadlocks when I saw FR live last summer. Could've been anyone behind the mask. Maybe one of the guys from the live band, I recall one of them having a hat like that.

Anyway, this should certainly confirm FR is a fan Burns's Black Hole, if the album cover and the videos weren't enough to do that.

The look on Promoe's face was great when they cut to him.

holy lolz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU

hey tuomas is promoe a big deal? i met that dude a month ago when looptroop rockers played a show with the hip hop band i'm playing for in mpls...super nice dude, put on a great show.

great speech

Needs more Kanye interruptions.

gaga ray

Gaga rightly gets credit for the first to dress crazy and wear masks.

Promoe is quite well-known in the Nordic countries among rap fans, though hip-hop purists probably prefer Looptroop over his solo material, since the solo stuff is more reggae/dancehall influenced. (IIRC "Looptroop Rockers" is so named because one of the members of the original Looptroop quit the band.) I think Promoe had a big Swedish-language hit song (previously he'd only rapped in English) a while ago where he mocks the Swedish equivalent of "chavs"/"rednecks", so in Sweden he's probably famous outside the rap crowd too.