Swedish electronic group The Knife has announced a new album. In collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer will release a studio version of the opera Tomorrow, In A Year digitally on Feb. 1 and physically on March 1.
The project came about when The Knife was commissioned by the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write music for its opera, which is based on Charles Darwin and his book, On the Origin of the Species. The duo researched Darwin, and Olof even attended a field recording workshop in the Amazon to find inspiration and record sounds.
You can get stream the entire album now on The Knife website. Karin says of the first track, “Colouring Of Pigeons”: “The title is taken from Charles Darwin’s studies of pigeons, a breakthrough of his examinations, coming home after The Beagle trip, it is when he started to discover the genetics transfered within generations. It is a track maximizing the results of his studies. I thought of the ‘diversity of everything’ something we have discussed a lot with Hotel Pro Forma, and a non-hierarchical way of seeing things. All the small details he studied and made notes of, like a pile of ants, an ants hill. Also a feeling of seeing things for the first time, overwhelming and shaken, but not afraid.”
For more information about the project, visit the official Tomorrow, In A Year website.
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