“11 Years” is the second music video from Fredrik’s Na Na Ni album, made by Dutch filmmaker Iris Piers. The film was shot frame by frame with a photocamera at an abandoned trainstation in rural Sweden. The band will launch its first ever US tour on Nov. 5 in Washington DC.
Fredrik is a new remarkable music sensation, casually capturing the spirit of classic storybook drama through a unique brand of experimental pop. What started out as a side project to The LK by the two pop visionaries Fredrik and Lindefelt, pretty soon grew to become a six piece featuring members of some of the very finest of the Swedish pop and experimental underground.
Drawing on traditional european folk influences like The Fairport Convention or Bo Hansson, crooning songwriters as well as a host of eclectic references like Moondog, Steve Reich, Jim O’Rourke, Maja Ratke or Barbara Morgenstern, Fredrik forges a sound that is as daring and eclectic as it is homecomingly soothing.
Some of the peaks of the debut album Na Na Ni evoke a very primal feeling of being ten years old again, lost in a dark, threatening forest with only a faint, humming voice leading you to safety. But apart from the sheer escapism the music carries a considerable emotional heft. Themes of light versus darkness, good versus evil as well as daylight and seasonal changes are painted in rough but colourful strokes, leaving just enough room for us to fill in the blanks. The lyrics and vocal expression, although sketchy and subdued, also manage to punctuate the episodes of the record with remarkable clarity. This is apparent in the low key narration of “Evil and I”: “We could analyze what has caused me so much pain, I didn’t mean it” or the slammer “Noble blood will nobly die” from the album opener “Black Fur“.
FREDRIK
11.05 – DC9 / Washington, DC
11.06 – Metro Gallery / Baltimore, MD
11.07 – Cake Shop / New York, NY
11.08 – Union Hall / Brooklyn, NY
11.09 – Brillobox / Pittsburgh, PA
11.10 – Bug Jar / Rochester, NY
11.11 – Lost Dog Cafe / Ithaca
11.12 – TT the Bears / Boston, MA
11.13 – Space 538 / Portland, ME
11.15 – Pianos / New York, NY
11.16 – Khyber / Philadelphia, PA
Fredrik
Na Na Ni
(The Kora Records)
Street date: Oct. 28, 2008
1. Black Fur
2. Alina’s Place
3. Hei Hei
4. 1986
5. Evil and I
6. Ninkon Loops
7. Angora Sleepwalking
8. Na Na Ni
9. 11 Years
10. Morr
FREDRIK LINKS:
MySpace: www.myspace.com/fredriktheband
Artist Page: www.sagomusik.com
Press Materials: www.thekorarecords.com/fredrik