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The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Reveals New EP With Mt. Sims
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer has shared details of a new EP made in collaboration with US artist Mt. Sims.
Spanning five tracks, Souvenir centres around the steel drum, making heavy use of the instrument. It precedes further solo material from Dreijer which is set to be released later this year. You can listen to the EP’s lead track, ‘Hybrid Fruit’, above.
The EP’s origins date back to when Dreijer and Sims worked together on The Knife’s 2010 album Tomorrow, In A Year, with the organisation Special Friends Of The Earth (SFOTE) subsequently inviting both artists to work on a project using an original steel drum made by Trinidad-based instrument maker Ellie Mannette.
Conscious of the instrument’s colonial history, as well as its stereotypical depiction within Western culture, the two artists spent a decade establishing a connection with it, according to a press release. "We tried to find our own thing," Dreijer said in a statement. "That’s usually our way around using an instrument that has been heavily exoticised and appropriated."
In addition to the EP, Dreijer and Sims have linked up with writers Anna-Maria Sörberg, Nathan Hamelberg and Tomas
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‘Everything Is Choreography’: The Stab Interviewed
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Ballad for a Modern Man 06:28
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I’m in love with the modern world I’m in love with modern feelings I don’t reap, and I don’t sow I just think about modern feelings A modern man needs a modern girl A modern man in a modern world I go outside, I leave my room See traffic lights in full bloom
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A Happy Town 06:29
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The happy town is full of happy people The happy church has a happy steeple The happy people live happy lives Happy husbands, happy wives Happy news on the TV screen We’re all one big happy world it seems Happy people never disagree Happy people like you and me The happy town is full of fruits Who march and sing in rainbow boots See them marching through that happy world See those happy boys and girls This happy world is rough Sometimes I worry that I’m not neurotic enough
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Forward Progress 05:38
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A storm blows up from paradise Forward progress Change the channel, roll the dice Forward progress Ships are sailing o’er the main Forward progress Their engines make a sweet refrain Forward progress Tomorrow better than before Forward progress Memory thrown overboard Forward progress I walk this road