The Knife Creating New Music for Europa Europa, a Political Activist Cabaret

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Front page photo by Erez Avissar

On their website, the Knife have announced that they're collaborating with the art group Ful to set up an "anti-national cabaret" called Europa Europa. They're writing new music for the traveling political activist project, which is specifically about "Sweden and EU’s migration politics". It premieres July 1 in Visby, Sweden, and more dates will be announced later.

Europa Europa's website (translated from Swedish) says the cabaret is meant to "highlight the human rights abuses that Sweden and the EU commits every day through the common asylum and migration policy." They say they're celebrating migrants "defying cameras, dangerous water, barbed wire, police violence and compact political resistance." 

The show features the Knife (who are listed as "the house band"), Bahareh Razekh Ahmadi, Ellen Nyman, Maya Hald, and Rani Nair. It's written and directed by Nasim Aghili.

Read our interview with the Knife here. And here's the Knife's 13-minute film on Shaking the Habitual:

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