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Robyn released some information about the upcoming project on the La Bagatelle Magique website.
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Freedom is a reoccurring theme on the record. Freedom, carton drums and sweat.
All three of us grew up on dance music of different kinds, I would say that was the source of inspiration. Making a collage to dance to. I thought a lot about what I would want to play live.
I don’t think our idea behind the project has changed since Christian passed away, but of course, I have asked myself a lot of questions during the process. It is a very peculiar situation, finishing something when someone is no longer around.
Christian wasn’t a producer in the way that he took responsibility and finished things — he was more an endless fountain of ideas. You never knew what you would get with him. He always did things on his own terms, he couldn’t do it any other way. It was all on feeling, all on desire.
How do you relate to this voice, picturing what it might say, but never really knowing for sure? And what happens when you then release the music? This isn’t his memorial record, it’s a record we had a lot of fun making. And he was very much alive, in love with his life, and he wanted to make more music.
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You cannot control life.
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Here's the full statement.
Additionally, FACT Magazine interviewed Robyn and bandmate Markus Jägerstedt on the new record.
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90s house was an influence on the record – were you listening at the time?
R: In the 90s, I was clubbing in New York, most of the time at The Shelter but also at random parties, where I was exposed to house music in a new way. It was so mixed: older people but also kids breaking in the house clubs. But we were also referencing the different dance music we’d each grown up on. Christian was 52 when he died, I’m 36 and Markus is a little bit younger than me; we all have different aspects of dance music in us. It was a silent agreement to collage the essence of that together in some way.
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In the studio, how did Christian’s influence shape the record?
R: When we started ‘Set Me Free’, it sounded like some kind of punk dance thing. And Markus started playing some modular synth, and Christian was like, ‘Okay, this is gonna be a rave track.’ And then everything turned around – it became something completely different.
M: He ran into the recording room and started playing live drums.
R: And a lot of the percussion on ‘Love is Free’ is Christian playing on forks. And Markus sings some backing, and I play synthesisers and tambourine. I’m really good at playing keyboard with one finger.
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Read the entire interview here.
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Are you still interested in doing solo stuff, moving forward? Or is giving up control a longer-term thing?
R: No, I’m gonna make another album. I started writing again, but I don’t know when it will be finished.
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