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

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

Agreed. And I disliked last year's album.

hey

http://files.kavefish.com/pictures/animated/david_caruso_fuck_you.gif

boy, he's really turned into Skeletor.

Agreed. And I disliked last year's album.

O_O

Why so?

Eh. I don't have a taste for this kind of parched femme-fronted synth pop. Even Portishead requires a leap of faith.

i loved it, thank you for posting this.

mixtape - http://dazeddigital.com/music/article/8248/1/fever-ray-exclusive-mixtape

really diggin that mixtape. wish there was a download link or I was smart enough to know how to :`(

umm this is going to be awesome http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/02/premiere-set-for-hour-of-the-wolf-with-music-by-fever-ray/

I was pretty surprised to hear tunes by Fever Ray used in this movie, which is a compilation of Swedish short movies made with the intent of producing feminist porn (thought some of them aren't really porn).... I wouldn't really associate FR with erotic titillation, so the juxtaposition of them and the film material felt kinda odd. Looks like Karin Dreijer supported the project though, since FR tunes were heard in several of the shorts, and they were mostly unreleased instrumentals and remixes, not the album versions.

It was also a pretty weird experience to watch actual porn in a cinema with strangers, even though I went there with a female friend, and the feminist theme kinda made it more socially acceptable.

if I visit that page, which I am about to do, it won't be with Fever Ray in mind, just sayin'

feminism?

porntastic preview! anyway, fever ray make extremely sexy music, so the collaboration doesn't surprise me.

LESBIAN =/= FEMINIST

tbh I've been looking for ages for porn that isn't in the crass phallocentric cumshot mould, AND has a sense of artistic visual or thematic narrative - amateur stuff sometimes but all too rarely fits the bill

in 2011, I pledge you, the public, more ILTMI/ILM crossover posts than you ever thought possible

Oh ok I just noticed there's also heterosexual porn involved. Don't mind me. Still don't understand what makes it 'feminist' porn but I guess I have to see more than the trailer to catch on.

feminist porn = porn made by feminists, iirc

feminist = not like Brazzers

that manifesto is GREAT btw - the ppl gonna reclaim the 'porn' ('pornography' is a terrible and oppressive term anyway)

manifesto is cool, but my eyes get all rolly when people selling something to me talk a "smash capitalism" line. and a lot of the stuff they're talking about applies to men as well as women. but in general, yeah.

More entertaining than Innocent Picture's Puzzy Power manifesto (1998), which Lars Von Trier had some involvement in. Candida Royalle seems to be falling behind in the manifesto races...

Oh ok I just noticed there's also heterosexual porn involved. Don't mind me. Still don't understand what makes it 'feminist' porn but I guess I have to see more than the trailer to catch on.

The whole movie was produced by asking people to make short films of "feminist porn", though apparently different people had widely different ideas what that means - some of the shorts are more like sex-themed art movies than anything you would call "porn". And at least two of them (might've been more, I saw the movie a year ago, so my memory isn't really clear) have no sex at all, though they did feature some fetishistic activities. My favourite of the shorts was actually one of those, a semi-documentary about a female flasher.

new track from red riding hood soundtrack is pretty great - http://soundcloud.com/andrewdiego/04-the-wolf

i also found this!!!!

"So far the Fever Ray contribution has been slated as only a song, but there have been rumblings, from Hardwicke herself, that Andersson will make a cameo in the film as her Fever Ray persona. She will appear amongst the wreckage of the wolf effigy, with all the villagers dancing and chanting alongside her as she herself, clad in a harvest-style costume, performs her song. Hardwicke seems to be much inspired by Andersson’s style and music, using it to capture the suspenseful distortion of the tale as well as potentially inspire the highly stylized and striking costuming. The scene with Seyfried amidst the flaming wood pieces has her masked in a simplistic yet creepy and startling wolf mask. It seems part Venetian mask inspired but also a nod to Andersson’s quirky and dynamic style on stage."

http://redridinghoodmoviefans.blogspot.com/2010/11/fever-ray-contributes-song-to-red.html

How does that director keep getting so many artists tha seem reluctant to be featured on pubescent blockbusters on board with him?

probably by being a woman

is she hot?

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=active&client=firefox-a&hs=PU7&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=catherine%20hardwicke&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=vi&biw=1096&bih=619

you tell me

Yeah I don't think her being a woman has anything to do with it. My question remains.

a lot of artists might be reluctant to be featured on pubescent blockbusters but id guess theyre a lot less reluctant about a shitload of money off of those movies

Exposure to millions of teenage goths will probably help sales of Fever Ray records as well.