FKA Twigs has announced the global release of Soundtrack 7, a 35 minute long video project created during her 2015 Manchester International Festival residency, for which she invited fans to watch live as one video was created each day for seven days. Tracks include “Good to Love,” which premiered at four live performances during the festival, “How’s That” and “Ultraviolet” from EP2, “Closer” and “Numbers” from LP1, “Mothercreep” from M3LL155X, and “What I Wanna” ft. Lucky Eck$, which was released in August 2016. Twigs celebrated Soundtrack 7‘s world premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in August, where she spoke with an eager audience about voguing culture and her hyper-creative childhood.
Soundtrack 7 opens with Twigs reciting the despairing, conflicted Thomas Wyatt poem I Find No Peace, which is repeated in two line sections between each of the seven choreography pieces. Performed by a diverse cast of dancers, including Twigs herself, the seven sections present themes that the artist has previously dealt with in both her lyrics and music videos, including strength and sensuality, control and the threat of violence, the body and conceptions of masculinity and femininity.
Twigs directed the film and created the concept for the project, which featured choreography by Aaron Sillis, and stage and lighting design by Tobias Rylander. The film was revealed to a global audience for the first time as part of a new website Twigs created — with her long-time collaborator, the artist Matthew Stone — to present an archive of her work.
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Text Charlotte Gush