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Tomorrow, In A Year by The Knife

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Intro 4:32 36,383
2 Epochs 5:43 33,552
3 Geology 4:25 28,134
4 Upheaved 3:04 24,305
5 Minerals 1:19 24,893
6 Ebb Tide Explorer 7:06 22,971
7 Variation Of Birds 6:41 17,632
8 Letter To Henslow 2:02 20,115
9 Schoal Swarm Orchestra 8:34 17,588
10 Annie’s Box 4:27 1,898
11 Tumult 3:29 18,536
12 Colouring of Pigeons 11:00 29,971
13 Seeds 9:00 19,435
14 Tomorrow in a Year 12:19 16,707
15 The Height of Summer 3:48 25,697
16 Annie’s Box (Alt. vocals - Bonus track) 4:53 20
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Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. (2010) Released: 5 Mar 2010 16 tracks (92:22)
This is the music we made for the opera “Tomorrow, in a Year”, commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma. The work is based off of Charles Darwin’s On the origin of the species, his notebooks and other randomly selected Darwin related literature and articles, for example The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, Annie’s Box by Randal Keynes, How to Read Darwin by Mark Ridley, and Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healy.

This is a studio version of the piece with slight differences and variations from the performed opera. In the current performed version all vocals are sung by mezzo soprano Kristina Wahlin Momme, actress Laerke Winther and pop singer Jonathan Johanson.

Originally The Knife were commissioned to make the music, but to try out a more collaborative way of working they invited Mt. Sims and Planningtorock . Not only to have a more fun and interesting process but also to capture the huge width of the theme Darwin and evolution. What we found most interesting about Darwin was his way of describing evolution in a non hierarchical way. Never using the word evolution, he instead chose to write about “variation” or “descent with modification”. Another fascinating thing when reading his journals is how necessary it was for him to not only question everything around him, but also himself in order to formulate his theories.
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  • safari_lunar

    Clearly the superior album.

    29 days ago

  • masktopatol

    kurwa nic z tego nie rozumiem

    March 2012

  • Krissuuu

    I've listened to this once and I can't remember any songs of this album, it's so sad

    March 2012

  • bce86

    Pure shit.

    March 2012

  • RickLip

    I'm surprised how quickly this actuall grows on you. Another two spins with headphones on, then count me in as a fan. =)

    March 2012

  • Dismal_Dingo

    Awesome album.

    February 2012

  • DSharky

    Shit

    February 2012

  • rediisssss

    is there anything similar, close to this?

    January 2012

  • riento59

    Transcendent

    January 2012

  • EWGENIYDYACONOW

    The Knife In Collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock - Epochs VIDEO http://vimeo.com/34510252

    January 2012

  • Siphonblast

    Annie's box is the incredible synthesis of fragility, of weeping in amorous, ambiguous motion. And its resolution swirls and swirls and leaves you helpless, blind, in bliss. This isn't popular structure, or even The Knife anymore, not then. Not in that composition. This is development, this is mastery, this is a collaboration of pure genius. Rarely do you hear beauty as immaculate as a sheer minute of those strings, floating as air. Not even in most of Mozart or Bach, their music is too programmatic. This is genius.

    January 2012

  • vihrnes

    Philip Glass on acid.

    December 2011

  • samarkand2004

    lol..all those animals masks, fetishism & totems, & weirdly kinda crowleyian drama atmospheres -for the connoisseurs^-..obviously immediately loved&praised by the the critics for sure^..to finish with an apologia of darwin evolution of species?! Did they sing also about his original racial&eugenists theories (so loved & funded by XIXth m*sons..would be a hit hey!), that inspired many great men too later (like uk/us eugenists before nazis..& a crowley too later, obviously/)..(pun intended)..just to be really a little educational & original again?!.._that_ would be subversive imo^^ but i guess they must have slipped that passage too..have they? what, would not have been politically correct, that, oh..damn, why that?..to illustrate darwinism is always so cool.*) hey, let's be shocking for the masses..without the feathers..ok..where is my altar, we have some little children to frighten to death again, Crowley style//would fit perfectly..thx The Knife!^ k, waiting for the next 1 now.. :*/)

    October 2011

  • x0HW

    i must smoke for that greatness

    October 2011

  • knestorial

    oh god what have i gotten myself into

    October 2011

  • MinkCote

    Definitely not what I was expecting at all. This will need another listen.

    October 2011

  • trykpa

    zestaw małego hipstera

    October 2011

  • LoCker1234

    fuckin genius

    September 2011

  • margoua

    too deep for me [2]

    September 2011

  • plaukas

    Arrrggh... It's a bit of a shame that you can't get it on vinyl.

    September 2011
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