The Knife "We Share Our Mother's Health"
I just can't get enough of Karen Dreijer Andersson lately, drawn time and again to her projects The Knife and Fever Ray. There's a sweet spot I'm attracted to, a combination of utter weirdness, electronic tropical beats, and political ball-busting. The Knife's 2007 pre-recorded Swedish Grammy acceptance award video is classic "WTF is this?" behavior.
But you know? I think they've outdone themselves brilliantly this time. The Knife is set to unveil an opera written to celebrate the 150th publishing anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in September 2009. It'll be at the Royal Danish Theatre, no less. The BIG time people!
The Hotel Pro Form, a Danish performance organization, is producing. From their Web site:
The theatre group Hotel Pro Forma’s (DK) special form of beauty blends with The Knife’s (SE) electronic music and Hiroaki Umedas (JP) hip-hop-inspired choreography to form a new type of electro-opera based on the works of Charles Darwin. An opera singer, a pop singer and an actor singing in the tradition of Brigitte Bardot perform The Knife’s music on stage. Six dancers from ballet and modern dance merge with the singers and the newest technology in light and sound to give us an incredible image of our immense diversity and amazing similarities.
WHO'S GOING WITH ME? This is going to be better than a bajillion SXSWs. Not that I'm still bitter I missed another one. Nope.
One of my favoritest The Knife songs of all the awesomenest ones, "We Share Our Mother's Health" performed LIVE:
In case you missed it, I've previously written about The Knife here, and featured the Fever Ray video "If I Only Had a Heart" here.
We came down from the north
Blue hands and a torch
Red wine and food for free
A possibility
We share our mothers' health
It is what we've been dealt
What's in it for me?
Fine
Then I'll agree
Trees there will be
Apples, fruits maybe
You know what I fear
The end is always near
x2
Say you like it
Say you need it
When you don't
Looking better
Shining brighter
Than you do
x2
