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Today's video of the day is from Fredrik, a small orchestra of 6 men and women from (where else!) Sweden. In the past they have collaborated with experimental acts including Moondog, Steve Reich and Barbara "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" Morgenstern.

There isn't much to say about their video for the song 11 years, above, except to say that you can tell just by watching it that it probably took a long time and a painstaking amount of attention to create something this pretty; a series of frame-by-frame images with a still camera. I get exhausted just thinking of how much work it took, just like when I read Obama's Twitter.

Do give Fredrik a listen, their music is simultaneously unusual and familiar, melancholy and soothing..

Fredrik's album Na Na Ni is out now and like Barack Obama, they are on tour in a city close to you, now:

11.5.08 - DC - DC9
11.6.08 - Baltimore - Metro Gallery
11.7.08 - New York - Cake Shop 
11.8.08 - Brooklyn - Union Hall
11.9.08 - Pittsburgh - Brillobox
11.10.08 - Rochester - Bug Jar 
11.11.08 - Ithaca - Lost Dog Cafe w. Mary Lorson of The Piano Creeps 
11.12.08 - Boston - TT the Bear's
11.13.08 - Portland, ME - Space 538 
11.14.08 - TBA 
11.15.08 - New York - Piano's 
11.16.08 - Philly - The Khyber