LONDON: ABBA released his first new music in four decades, along with the performance of concerts that will see the quartet of “Dancing Queen” govertely digital.
The upcoming album “Voyage,” which will be released on November 5, is a follow-up of the “visitors,” 1981 which has now become Swan Song from Swedish supergroup.
And the virtual version of the band will start a series of concerts in London on May 27.
“We rested in the spring of 1982 and now we decided it was time to end it,” Abba said in a statement on Thursday.
“They said it was stupid to wait for more than 40 years between the album, so we have recorded follow-up to ‘visitors’.” The group has created the Holographic Live Show, using motion and other techniques.
They call it the “most strange and most spectacular concert that you can dream.” “We will be able to sit in the audience and watch our digital self do our songs,” said group statement.
“Strange and extraordinary!” The planned show spurred the album making, which featured new songs “I still have faith in you” and “Don’t shut up.” It began with a session in 2018 and was postponed by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The show will come 50 years after the establishment of a group consisting of two married couples for most of its existence, and whose name is the acronym of its member’s name, Agnetha Faltskog, 71, Benny Andersson, 74, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 75.
Group, which Known as the 1970s string and early 1980s hits such as “waterloo”, “Dancing Queen” and “Take a chance on me”, selling more than 385 million albums.