With the digital album release set for February 2nd, and the phyical album out March 9th, The Knife is unleashing the studio version of the opera Tomorrow, In A Year in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock.  Originally commissioned by the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma, the opera is based on Charles Darwin and his book On the Origin of Species, “to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme.”

After extensive reserach on Darwin related literature and articles, The Knife decided to work with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time.  “The music is inspired by everything from the different stages of a bird learning its melody, to a song based on Darwin’s loving letters about his daughter Anne.” 

Tomorrow, In A Year” was first performed in Copenhagen on September 2nd, 2009 and was described as “shifting the position of operatic art in a single leap.”  Additional performances are scheduled for Jan. 29-Feb.1, 2009 in Stockholm, and June 5 in Munster.

“Colouring of Pigeons” can be streamed here.

Tomorrow, In A Year Tracklist:
CD 1
1. Intro
2. Epochs
3. Geology
4. Upheaved
5. Minerals
6. Ebb Tide Explorer
7. Variation of Birds
8. Letter to Henslow
9. Schoal Swarm Orchestra

CD 2
1. Annie’s Box
2. Tumult
3. Colouring of Pigeons
4. Seeds
5. Tomorrow in a Year
6. The Height of Summer
Bonus track-
7. Annie’s Box (alt. vocal)