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01. JENNY HVAL - Engines In The City
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02. JENNY HVAL - Blood Flight
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03. JENNY HVAL - Portrait Of A Young Girl As An Artist
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04. JENNY HVAL - How Gentle
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05. JENNY HVAL - A Silver Fox
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06. JENNY HVAL - Golden Locks
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07. JENNY HVAL - This Is A Thirst
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08. JENNY HVAL - Milk Of Marrow
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09. JENNY HVAL - Black Morning/Viscera
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ARTIST
HVAL, JENNY
TITLE
Viscera
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
RUNE GRAMMOFON
CATALOG #
RLP 3108LP
RLP 3108LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/3/2011
Limited 2LP version with mp3 download.
Jenny Hval
is a Norwegian artist and writer and this is her first album using her own name. With a background in writing and performance, her music is poetic, sensual, challenging, dark and beautiful, as well as melodic and spacious. In 2006, Hval released her successful debut album
To Sing You Apple Trees
under the moniker
Rockettothesky
. The album received rave reviews and became a surprise hit with its mix of pop, poetry and rampant sexuality. She was nominated for a Norwegian Grammy in the "Best New Act" category and she played most of the big Norwegian festivals in 2007, as well as shows and small festivals in the UK and Europe. With her second album,
Medea
(2008, also as Rockettothesky), a different and more experimental tone was set. Hval invoked the Greek tragic heroine Medea -- the monstrous mother, powerful sorceress, and foreign woman -- through spoken-word and improvised sound textures. She also started playing live with free improv musicians
Håvard Volden
(guitar) and
Kyrre Laastad
(drums & percussion). Since the release of
Medea
, Hval has completed several other projects: composing and performing the commissioned piece "Meshes Of Voice" with singer and composer
Susanna Wallumrød
(
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra
) for Ladyfest 2009, composing and performing at the Ultima Festival for Contemporary Music, publishing the slightly controversial novel
Perlebryggeriet
(trans.
The Pearl Brewery
, 2009) and starting a free folk/improv duo with Håvard Volden (
Nude On Sand
).
Viscera
is set in the body. The songs are stories of flesh and travelling, both sensual and provocative. She wanted to make free music without a conceptual framework, but realized after recording the album that all the songs deal with travelling in one way or another. Some songs have a modernist protagonist -- an unknown and yet present I -- whereas other songs take place in the body, viscerally travelling. Inside becomes outside, the body is turned inside-out. The music for
Viscera
was composed and arranged by improvising. It follows the lyrics wherever they go: spoken-word, surrealist folk tales, or just plain provocative imagery. Modernist fantasy? Fantastic anatomy? Produced by
Deathprod
and Jenny Hval.
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