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Bodies Without Organs is an electronic pop group, formed in Sweden in 2004. Since early 2006 they have usually been presented under the shortened name BWO. Throughout their career they have enjoyed considerable commercial success and recognition in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, and moderate success in the UK.
Alexander Bard started work on a new music project during 2003, working with the record producer Anders Hansson who became the band's co-producer. They auditioned over 35 different vocalists before meeting Martin Rolinski who was duly chosen as lead singer. Marina Schiptjenko, an art-dealer and a one-time member of Vacuum, Bard's previous music project, then came on board as the third member of what became Bodies Without Organs.
There was initially a suggestion that the band would be a four-piece including Jean-Pierre Barda from Army of Lovers, but this did not come to fruition, and Barda's explicit involvement extended only as far as co-writing BWO's first single "Living In A Fantasy". Army of Lovers did make a cameo in the videoclip of The Bells of Freedom.
The name of the band derives from the philosophical term body without organs, developed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari in their 1972 book Anti-Œdipus. Bard, an author and lecturer of philosophy, has referred to the ideas of Deleuze in his books Netocracy - The New Power Elite And Life After Capitalism and The Global Empire, both co-written with Jan Söderqvist.
Musically, BWO have come to represent the more commercial side of the Swedish electro scene, also featuring artists like Robyn, The Knife, Jenny Wilson and September. Alexander Bard has claimed that BWO's electronic pop music is the missing link between ABBA and Kraftwerk.
Visually, BWO have been working with most of the high-brow Scandinavian music video directors, including Fredrik Boklund, Kalle Haglund and the award-winning Kamisol team. Like most of the other Swedish electro acts, BWO have been featured in hundreds of fashion articles,[not specific enough to verify] working closely on their visual style with their in-house Irish stylist Sally O'Sullivan.
Chart and airplay success
BWO's debut album Prototype, first released in Russia in December 2004, generated seven Top 20 hit singles in Sweden and reached platinum status, with further success in Finland. Two singles off the album, "Living In A Fantasy" and "Sixteen Tons Of Hardware" went Number 1 in the Europa Plus Airplay Chart in Russia, and the album soon crossed over to neighboring countries, generating no less than five Top 5 hit singles in Ukraine and two Top 5 hit singles in Hungary. The track "Gone" was a Number 1 hit in Lebanon.
BWO's second album Halcyon Days, released in April 2006, entered the Swedish Album Chart at Number 1, shipping gold and generating four further hit singles, of which the first single "Temple Of Love" was a Number 1 smash in Sweden and charted across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The album has since generated a further three hit singles. Halcyon Days was followed by a remix collection called Halcyon Nights, released in December, 2006.
A third studio album, Fabricator, was released in Sweden on September 19, 2007, entering the Swedish charts at Number 6. A pre-release single "Save My Pride", was released in May 2007 and went Number 1 on major Turkish radio station Radio Mydonese's Top 40 Countdown in July 2007. The singles "Let it Rain" and "Rhythm Drives Me Crazy" were both released in August 2007. "Rhythm Drives Me Crazy" was chosen as the theme for the Swedish team in the Women's Football World Cup in China in September 2007. A fourth single "The Destiny Of Love" was released in October 2007 and a fifth single "Give Me The Night" was released at the end
