A new track titled No Face by Karin Dreijer Andersson, which you know from The Knife and Fever Ray, is featured on the We Are The Works In Progress compilation. The song was initially written for the Ingmar Bergman play The Wolf Hour, of which the soundtrack was entirely written by Karin - hope we get to hear that soundtrack one day.
With just a minimum of instruments and a focus on the opera-like vocals, No Face reminds me of the music of Klaus Nomi and Tomorrow, In A Year, the opera The Knife wrote music for last year, along with Planningtorock and Mt. Sims.
We Are The Works In Progress is a 14-song benefit album to support Japan and it’s ongoing efforts to heal post-tsunami and was compiled and organized by Blonde Redhead. It will be available digitally on January 10th and the double LP can be pre-order on their website.
CFCF’s NIGHT BUS II has been on repeat here ever since it was released a couple of weeks ago; one of the shiners in that mixtape was CFCF’s slow-burn edit of Fever Ray’s Keep The Streets Empty For Me. Grab it below, along seperate mp3’s of all other NBII-edits and a bonus blend of Talking Heads’ Listening Wind and Cameron Reed & Yung Clova’s Greed.
A new Fever Ray song titled The Wolf appears in the upcoming Red Riding Hood movie. Equally haunting as anything else Karin touches.
Karin Dreijer Andersson of Fever Ray and The Knife did an interview with Dazed Digital and made a mixtape containing her current favourite tunes. Head over to Dazed Digital to read and hear the result, or hear it below.
Andreas Nilsson, director of beautiful videos - such as If I Had a Heart (Fever Ray), This Must Be It (Röyksopp), Madder Red (Yeasayer) and almost all videos of The Knife -, will stage an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1968 horror film Hour of the Wolf at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre in February. That’s already great news, but it’s getting even better now: Fever Ray will create the music for it.
Karin and brother Olof recently colloborated with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock and made a soundtrack for Tomorrow, In A Year, a Darwin-electro opera. The result was a mesmerizing piece of avant-garde electro with opera-vocals. Makes me really curious to hear what Karin will create for Hour of The Wolf (although I am sure it will be amazing).
Fever Ray covers Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street. Beyond awesome.
