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

walked to work early this a.m. across 2 miles of german fields full of corn that was still high as an elephant's eye but dead, sun rising, pretty cold, this album playing. was amazing.

love this album more than ever lately but i NEVER seem to want to listen to the first two tracks :/

I often just play "Dry and Dusty" and "Concrete Walls". Maybe "Coconut" if I'm in slow-burn mode.

life swap y/n xp

I can never really listen to this album at work. It's an "under the covers, tucked in late at night" listen for me.

c. I remember so many people singing at the show that even if the sound was more balanced I still wouldn't have heard her voice.
a. I was totally going to spend all of my extra money to go to Chicago for the next show but, alas, it is not happening.
d. The whole show was an invitation to think that a show could be more than a show and I am glad I am not as jaded as I thought I was.
b. When I still thought I was going to Chicago the whole drug question came up but the thing is I tend to forget things (big surprise!) when stoned and I am glad I went sober. I can remember everything. Just putting on the record gives me flashbacks.

SF show last night was amazing soundwise. The bass wasn't excessive and didn't drown out everything else. If I can quibble, I think they tended to keep her voice in the lower register, for example keeping the "Dangling feet from windowpane..." vocals that are higher on the recorded If I Had a Heart with the same low, gruff effect that is on her vox from the beginning of the song. It lost some of that affecting contrast between her low and high singing. Also, no panpipes on Keep the Streets Empty! lol.

I could barely see what was happening on stage, mostly I saw the lamps, the synth player with his pagan priest hat, every once in a while saw Karin, like when she came to the front of the stage and did sort of the Roc-a-Fella diamond hand symbol. This was kinda disappointing, but my friend pointed out that if we had been up at the very front, we wouldn't have really seen the lasers, which were gorgeous.

http://superrevolver.dk/shaman.jpg

her voice is amazing live. one really gets just what a great instrument it is, even moreso than one would on record. fully convinced of her genius tbh.

In addition, the Fever Ray album is being granted one of those instant reissues the kids are so crazy about nowadays. Fever Ray-- The Double Disc Edition hits October 12 and is padded with two covers-- Vashti Bunyan's "Been Here Before" and Nick Cave and Anita Lane's "Stranger Than Kindness"-- and a DVD featuring all of the album's superb videos thus far (if you haven't seen them, please do yourself a favor and head over to Pitchfork.tv right now) along with a new one for "Seven" directed by Johan Renck, whose music video resume includes Madonna's "Hung Up", Bat for Lashes' "Daniel", and Beyoncé's "Me, Myself and I". It should slay.

Fever Ray takes her heavily-costumed live show to North America next month. We can't wait. Dates here.

Posted by Ryan Dombal on August 25, 2009

― Bee OK, Wednesday, August 26, 2009 5:02 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

October 12th, right? Hmm.

Not saying it's not happening, but there's nothing on the site, no newsletter, nothing on the myspace. Never seen any official confirmation of this either.

posted today http://feverray.com/2009/10/12/fever-ray-the-double-disc-edition-out-on-october-12th/

headline says oct 19 though the url would beg to differ

Hooray! Thx!

Would be nice if the dvd alone was available though. Already own the normal cd and ordered the 7"... :-/

yeah, if I really like someone's work I will pay for it multiple times (see: The Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees) so this doesn't bother me

I'll shell out again probably, but it does bother me. If only a little.

I knew this would happen, as happened with the Knife albums, so i've waited. Been burned twice before by The Knife. Def. looking forward to this reissue though.

I've been a bit disappointed by the two new videos, at least compared to the videos for "If I Had a Heart" and "When I Grow Up". The first two videos totally got you in the mood by implying there was backstory behind what was happening, and dropping ambiguous hints on that story made them all the more enchanting. But the two new videos, as cool as they look, feel like more traditional music videos, they just show Karin (and the band members) in odd scenery without any attempt to build a story. I have to give props for Karin for the way she looks in the "Seven" video though, that's quite exceptional! Anyway, I thought the new videos would continue on the story that began in the first video, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's simply a question of budget, as it looks like the two new videos were made with much less money than "If I Had a Heart". I don't think I'll be buying this double disc version, especially since the original album already included the best one of the videos.

Video for 'Stranger Than Kindness', people who've seen the concerts will be familliar with most of the imagery.

Tags:

* Bird Masks,
* Fever Ray,
* Lasers,
* Music Videos,
* World Premiere

http://www.mediafire.com/?m2gwojmjjah

Fever Ray live

Dunno if this announcement is what's above but....

The Guardian has teamed up with Rabid Records and Cooperative Music to give readers a live version of the debut album by Fever Ray. Following an exclusive interview in Friday’s Film and Music section there will be a unique URL printed in Saturday’s Guardian that will allow readers to download the album. The album was recorded in Sweden on 28 March 2009.
Tracks included on the download are:

If I Had A Heart
Triangle Walks
Concrete Walls
Seven
I’m Not Done
Now’s The Only Time I Know
Keep The Streets Empty
Dry And Dusty
Stranger Than Kindness
When I Grow Up

Yes, it's the same thing. Entire show recording is only 20mins but the inbetween bits have been cut. Not sure if that link has all the tracks but it starts and ends with the same songs listed above. Soundboard quality.

ok, actually, i'm pretty sure its missing a couple tracks. only has 5 diff. tracks on the mp3 i posted.

http://feverray.com/guardian/

Damn, I got the Guardian today but I already own the album in CD form. Anyone want my key?

what key? you just click "download" and it gives you the zip, right?

Oh, I am a stupid. I thought by "unique URL" they actually meant a *unique* URL. Clearly I posted before I had either had my tea or read the thread properly. Consider me reprimanded.

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