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

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.

thx for the info...he was exceedingly nice when i met him

hahaha fever ray video was the soup's clip of the week

they made a joke saying that it was actually heidi montag

lol

alright THANK YOU - this time no way I'm missing this

Fever Ray announces further dates in London and Paris

Those who were lucky enough to catch Fever Ray play live at one of her sold out UK shows last year were uniformly spellbound. From the incredible laser show to the otherworldly pagan stagewear, and not least the spectacle of the self-titled debut album breathtakingly brought to life, these were golden tickets.

Yes, we did announce last year that Fever Ray was to play no further UK live dates, but due overwhelming public demand Karin and her band will come out of hibernation to play 2 more shows in London and Paris, as well as selected festival dates.

Fever Ray will play at London’s Brixton Academy on September 8th and Paris’ La Cigale on September 9th. Tickets are available from 9am Wednesday 10th March* at feverray.com/tickets
*Add the date to: Calendar / Facebook

Fever Ray will also be playing at this year ’s Coachella Festival and the only UK festival appearance will be at Bestival.

Forthcoming live dates are as follows:
16th Apr – Coachella, Indio, CA, USA - Buy Tickets
8th Sep - Brixton Academy, London, UK - Buy Tickets
9th Sep - La Cigale, Paris, France - Buy Tickets
11-13th Sep – Bestival, Isle of Wight, UK - Buy Tickets

Fever Ray – The Double Disc Edition album and Live in Luleå are available now.

so i was browsing the aquarius 'best of the year so far' list for anything without "dooooooooooooom" in the description, and came across this...

"ROLL THE DICE "s/t" (Digitalis) cd 15.98
This AQ fave, originally issued this past winter on vinyl (and long since out of print in that format) is finally available on cd, definitely a good thing!
A bit of a left field release for Digitalis, Roll The Dice is a duo from Sweden, producers who have worked with The Knife and Fever Ray, but who here, serve up some sort of futuristic retro John Carpenter / Goblin style synthscapes, albeit with their own twist.
The sound is most definitely spacey, and synthy, and soundtracky, throbbing, pulsing, subtly psychedelic, the continuous sci-fi pulse that seems to drive every low budget movie made in the eighties, but wrapped around elements that are distinctly more earthy and organic, a little bit of folk, some broody minimalism, even (and especially) a bit of pop, definitely a strange hybrid, but of the two elements it definitely leans heavily in the synth/space/retro direction. That said, these guys cover a lot of ground, slipping from full on Goblin pulse, all haunting and minor key, to moody poppy playfulness, to long drifts of shimmering spaced out ambience and even extended moments of almost Basic Channel-like deep dub minimalism, all of those held together by the presence, either subtle or pronounced, of that relentless, pulsing sci-fi synth line.
The flipside finds RTD getting all blissed out and Pop Ambient, washed out, shimmery, sun dappled and glimmery, crystalline melodies, and barely there buried soft focus rhythms, before closing the record with what sounds like the music behind the credits from some super obscure, eighties, straight to video thriller, slow and spacious and smoldering, ominous and a bit creepy, but still spacey and synthy.
Anyone into recent records from Umberto, D.A., Anima Morte, Somnam, Pulse Emitter, Steve Moore, as well as yeah, of course, the aforementioned Goblin, Zombi and John Carpenter, would do well to check this out too."

upon first listen the record is pretty great! but yeh, have to admit it's sorta crazy that this is on digitalis, didn't have a higher profile, etc. (or maybe i'm just wayyy out of the loop)

you can find a few tracks here

haha what a coincidence

today I have been repeatedly listening to the fever ray songs 'seven' and 'i'm not done', especially the latter

it's definitely much different than the fever ray/knife stuff, but tracks like "guadeloupe" (my favorite at this point) could almost pass for a basic channel dub remix of a karin or olof track

that description sounds amazing, will def be checking this out later

http://soundcloud.com/fever-ray/mercy-street

^^ fever ray cover of 'mercy street' available for ONE DAY ONLY

oops download link: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=122&p=8922&title=fever_ray_cover_peter_gabriel&more=1&c=1

not the lowest degree-of-difficulty cover to pull off but on first listen this is pretty great