christine OUT LOUD +, via: Pitchfork Last year, The Knife recorded a...

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Last year, The Knife recorded a soundtrack to an experimental opera based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species called Tomorrow, In A Year. (Berlin dance-rock act Mt. Simes and chamber experimentalist Planningtorock also collaborated on the music.) The stage performance premiered in September and, based on a seven-minute trailer, it’s about as fucked up and amazing-looking (and -sounding) as one would expect from an avant-opera featuring music from the Knife. And now a studio version of the soundtrack is on the way, courtesy of Mute in downloadable form February 2 and in physical form March 9 in the U.S. (March 1 internationally).
The 11-minute epic “Colouring of Pigeons” is currently streaming at the Knife’s website and it just might rupture your brainspace. (You can download it in exchange for your e-mail address, too.) Nobody on earth (or elsewhere) is making music like this.
Speaking about the soundtrack in a press release, the Knife’s Olof Dreijer had this to say: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in the Knife but never in such a clear way.”
Live performances of Tomorrow, In a Year are still ongoing, with 2010 dates lined up in Greece, Sweden, and Budapest.
Tracklist for the soundtrack is below:
Tomorrow, In a Year:
CD 1:
01 Intro02 Epochs03 Geology04 Upheaved05 Minerals06 Ebb Tide Explorer07 Variation of Birds08 Letter to Henslow09 Schoal Swarm Orchestra
CD 2:
01 Annie’s Box02 Tumult 03 Colouring of Pigeons04 Seeds05 Tomorrow in a Year06 The Height of Summer07 Annie’s Box (alternate vocal) (bonus track)
Posted by Ryan Dombal on January 6, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.
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i am desperate to see this live and promise to offer commentary if i do.. if my brain isn’t mutilated afterwards +

Last year, The Knife recorded a soundtrack to an experimental opera based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species called Tomorrow, In A Year. (Berlin dance-rock act Mt. Simes and chamber experimentalist Planningtorock also collaborated on the music.) The stage performance premiered in September and, based on a seven-minute trailer, it’s about as fucked up and amazing-looking (and -sounding) as one would expect from an avant-opera featuring music from the Knife. And now a studio version of the soundtrack is on the way, courtesy of Mute in downloadable form February 2 and in physical form March 9 in the U.S. (March 1 internationally).

The 11-minute epic “Colouring of Pigeons” is currently streaming at the Knife’s website and it just might rupture your brainspace. (You can download it in exchange for your e-mail address, too.) Nobody on earth (or elsewhere) is making music like this.

Speaking about the soundtrack in a press release, the Knife’s Olof Dreijer had this to say: “At first it was very difficult as we really didn’t know anything about opera. We’d never been to one. I didn’t even know what the word libretto meant. But after some studying, and just getting used to opera’s essence of pretentious and dramatic gestures, I found that there is a lot to learn and play with. In fact, our ignorance gave us a positive respectless approach to making opera. It took me about a year to become emotionally moved by an opera singer and now I really do. I really like the basic theatrical values of opera and the easy way it brings forward a narrative. We’ve approached this before in the Knife but never in such a clear way.”

Live performances of Tomorrow, In a Year are still ongoing, with 2010 dates lined up in Greece, Sweden, and Budapest.

Tracklist for the soundtrack is below:

Tomorrow, In a Year:

CD 1:

01 Intro
02 Epochs
03 Geology
04 Upheaved
05 Minerals
06 Ebb Tide Explorer
07 Variation of Birds
08 Letter to Henslow
09 Schoal Swarm Orchestra

CD 2:

01 Annie’s Box
02 Tumult
03 Colouring of Pigeons
04 Seeds
05 Tomorrow in a Year
06 The Height of Summer
07 Annie’s Box (alternate vocal) (bonus track)

Posted by Ryan Dombal on January 6, 2010 at 9:50 a.m.

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i am desperate to see this live and promise to offer commentary if i do.. if my brain isn’t mutilated afterwards +