After the Knife called it a day last year,Olof Dreijer teamed up with Tunisian composer Houwaida Hedfi and swapped four-to-the-floor for the fluteOlof Dreijer’s instrument of choice for his latest project might approach as a surprise to fans of The Knife – his recently disbanded duo with his sister, Karin Dreijer Andersson – which melded electronic pop with gender theory. Fans of Oni Ayhun, and Dreijer’s understated techno alias,may be equally surprised that with his newest band – Hiya wal Âalam – he plays the flute. Understandably for someone of Dreijers background (the last time he spoke to the Guardian he declared: “I believe that it’s in the music where you can really try out political alternatives and utopias”) the flute’s sound is not straightforward. Instead it is manipulated and filtered in an unconventional way. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com