Karin Dreijer

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Karin Dreijer as Fever Ray (October 2009)

Karin Elisabeth Dreijer (born April 7, 1975 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish singer , composer and music producer . She and her brother Olof Dreijer were the central characters in the now disbanded experimental electronic band The Knife . Dreijer also runs a solo project called Fever Ray .

Life and music

Dreijer was born on April 7, 1975 in Gothenburg. From 1994 she was the singer and front woman of the indie rock band Honey Is Cool , which released several albums. In 1998 the group founded their own record label Rabid Records , which is now only run by Dreijer, her brother Olof and Mrs. Rabid.

The Knife

In 1998 she moved to Stockholm and founded The Knife with Olof Dreijer . They released their debut album The Knife in 2001 . The band gained international recognition following the release of Heartbeats , the first single from their second studio album Deep Cuts (2003). She performed live for the first time in 2006 as part of the Silent Shout Tour in support of her highly acclaimed third album, Silent Shout (2006). In 2009 the Danish artist collective Hotel Pro Forma commissioned the band, together with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock , to compose an opera. Based on Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species , Tomorrow, in a Year was created. In 2013 the band released their fourth and final studio album, Shaking the Habitual. She broke up in November 2014 after finishing the Shaking the Habitual Tour .

Fever Ray

On January 12th, 2009 the first album Dreijers was released as part of their solo project Fever Ray with the same title. In it Dreijer processed experiences from the time after the birth of their second daughter. The album received mostly positive reviews. Andreas Borcholte ( Der Spiegel ) chose the "dreadfully beautiful [e]" album as one of the best of 2009. According to Borcholte, Dreijer creates a "Nordic-folk-enchanted soundscape full of black magic, cool, sparkling beauty". According to Stephan Loichinger ( Spex ), Fever Ray is dark and wonderful at the same time. The album warms the listener in spite of all the cold and truly comforts. Individual pieces of the album were used as a soundtrack for films (such as Laurence Anyways ) and series (such as Bones - The Bone Hunter or Vikings ).

From March 2009 to December 2009 Dreijer was on tour as Fever Ray . In 2010 she appeared at individual music festivals, such as on April 16, 2010 at the US Coachella Festival and on September 12, 2010 at the British Bestival on the Isle of Wight . On August 17 of the same year, the Peter Gabriel Cover Mercy Street appeared ; for the soundtrack of the 2011 released movie Red Riding Hood - Wolf Moon Dreijer wrote as Fever Ray , the piece The Wolf .

On October 16, 2017, Dreijer released a teaser music video called Switch Seeks Same as Fever Ray on their official website . This was followed by the release of the music video for the single To The Moon And Back on October 20, 2017 , and the online release of the album Plunge on October 27, 2017 . This album was also received largely benevolently by the critics. Annika Reith (Spex) recognizes in him a lively summary of Dreijer's previous solo and The Knife careers. It is about the conditions of (queer) love, more precisely about the interaction of intimacy and violence. For Hannah Pilarczyk (Der Spiegel), Plunge is a big disappointment and yet outstanding. The album thematizes and transports the discomfort with our circumstances, it makes you nervous and tense.

From February to August 2018 Dreijer went on tour again as Fever Ray . The main concern of the stage show was the right to one's own body, one's own sexuality and one's own gender, as opposed to the patriarchal structures that suppress sexuality. On August 29, 2018, Dreijer surprisingly announced the end of the tour. She explained the move with the recurrence of generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks that she had suffered from for several years.

Other Projects

Dreijer wrote the soundtrack for Dirty Diaries , a 2009 collection of feminist , pornographic short films . In a review of the collection in the Swedish newspaper Smålandsposten , it was described as "appropriate to the film", although the music is repetitive.

Private life

Dreijer is divorced and has two daughters. She has not used the Andersson family name since her divorce . She lives in Stockholm.

style

Dreijer has a high recognition value . What is striking about her singing style are the shrill, flat and distorted tones in combination with her distinctive accent, as well as the frequent use of pitch shifting .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Fever Ray
  SE 8th 03/27/2009 (8 weeks)
  UK 90 04/11/2009 (1 week)
Plunge
  DE 55 02.03.2018 (1 week)
  AT 41 09.03.2018 (1 week)
  CH 33 04.03.2018 (1 week)
  UK 77 03/08/2018 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 2009: Fever Ray
  • 2017: Plunge

Live albums

  • 2009: Live in Luleå
  • 2019: Live at Troxy

Singles

  • 2008: If I Had a Heart
  • 2009: When I Grow Up
  • 2009: Triangle Walks
  • 2009: Seven
  • 2009: Stranger Than Kindness
  • 2009: Keep the Streets Empty for Me
  • 2010: Mercy Street
  • 2011: The Wolf
  • 2017: To The Moon And Back
  • 2017: Wanna Sip
  • 2018: IDK About You

Guest appearances

  • 2000: Robot - Wasted
  • 2001: Silverbullit - Ax Man
  • 2001: Yvonne - Lost in the City Nights
  • 2005: Röyksopp - What Else Is There?
  • 2008: dEUS - Slow
  • 2009: Röyksopp - This Must Be It and Tricky Tricky

Web links

Commons : Fever Ray  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Fever Ray, interviewed by Michael Cragg: Fever Ray: on pleasure, patriarchy and political revolution. In: The Guardian . November 18, 2017, accessed March 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ Barbara Czarniawska, Orvar Löfgren (Ed.): Coping With Excess: How Organizations, Communities and Individuals Manage Overflows. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham / Northampton 2013, ISBN 978-1-78254-857-7 , pp. 106-107.
  3. ^ Rabid Records: Info / Contact. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The Knife in Collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock - Tomorrow, In a Year. (No longer available online.) In: theknife.net. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010 ; accessed on June 24, 2019 .
  5. ^ Stephan Loichinger: Fever Ray Fever Ray. In: SPEX. March 30, 2009, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Abgehört 2009 - The most important CDs of the year. In: Der Spiegel. December 15, 2009, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  7. ^ Stephan Loichinger: Fever Ray Fever Ray. In: SPEX. March 30, 2009, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  8. ↑ A list of the pieces used as the soundtrack can be found on Fever Ray's IMDb page, cf. Fever Ray. In: IMDb. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Margaret Wappler: Coachella 2010: Fever Ray's dark arts not as powerful when performed in a plain old music festival tent. In: Los Angeles Times. April 17, 2010, accessed September 6, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Ryan Dombal: Fever Ray Covers Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street" on New Single. In: Pitchfork. August 16, 2010, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Bill Forman: Hoodwinked: Fever Ray plays uncertain role in Twilight director's next film. In: Colorado Springs Independent. November 18, 2010, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Fever Ray Teases New Music With Intense Video. In: Pitchfork. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Michelle Kim: Fever Ray Shares New Album Plunge: Listen. In: Pitchfork. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Annika Reith: Fever Ray "Plunge" / Review. In: SPEX. October 28, 2017, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Brace yourselves! In: Der Spiegel. November 2, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Laura Snapes: Fever Ray's Band of Insiders. In: The Red Bulletin. May 22, 2018, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  17. ^ Fever Ray: Statement. August 29, 2018, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Chart sources: SE DE AT CH UK
  19. ↑ Fever Ray Spook-ifies Peter Gabriel's “Mercy Street” ( English ) Cover Me. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Dreijer, Karin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreijer Andersson, Karin Elisabeth; Fever Ray (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish musician and singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg