DOWNLOAD: The Knife, Mt. Sims & Planningtorock - Colouring Of Pigeons
Presumably the result of spending too much time hanging out in lightless Arctic caves, The Knife's new project finds them translating Charles Darwin's "The Origin Of Species" into an electro-pop opera that mimics the learning of birdsong. Quite the undertaking, I'm sure you'll agree, but with the help of Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have made an eagle of what, in lesser hands, would surely have turned out a turkey. The studio version of that opera - Tomorrow, In A Year - will be out on March 1.
Sounds Like: Enigma, Fever Ray, Kate Bush
The Knife, Mt. Sims & Planningtorock - Colouring Of Pigeons
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Live: Something Went Wrong In The Lab Today...Very Wrong
"Help meeeee! Heeeeeeelp meeeeeeeee!" Put David Cronenberg, Plácido Domingo, Howard Shore and David Henry Hwang together and they'll give you something to remember... "The Fly: The Opera". Dopeness abounds in this sickly 80's scarefest reworked to the LA Opera scene. Time magazine described "The Fly" as "a profound parable on love and loss." And we say Cronenberg is the king of body horror and what better way to revisit this lonely, dark sterile look at the 80's than Placido Domingo producing the Opera version. In its metamorphosis into an opera, this dark romantic tragedy presents a Kafkaesque meditation on man's uneasy relationship with technology. As the doomed scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) and his girlfriend Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis) battle some big issues with back hair.... I know an old lady who swallowed a fly...perhaps she'll die.
"The Fly: The Opera" takes place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in downtown LA. Click here for tickets.
PRODUCTION DATES - LOS ANGELES
Sunday September 7, 2008 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday September 10, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Saturday September 13, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday September 16, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Saturday September 20, 2008 7:30 p.m.
Saturday September 27, 2008 2:00 p.m.
