Live:
Solo: Jenny & her pitch shifter, plus guitar, autoharp, psaltery, sampler.
Duo: with Håvard Volden (guitar, autoharp, shoe drum and noise)
Trio: with Håvard Volden and Kyrre Laastad (drums, guitar, percussion, mac)
Influences
Lately: Catherynne M. Valente
Kristine Næss
Springtime makes me read too many books
Nicole Brossard again
Lori Carson
Nude on Sand
Laura Jean
Two Suns
Too many vampires
Death (the Neil Gaiman version)
Bidisha
and
my mushy rooms.
Always:
Automatic writing and automatic singing, Meredith Monk and Diamanda Galas, Anne Carson and Aritha van Herk because they write fantasy with theory, Kate Bush and Hélène Cixous should be teaching us how to read, Nicole Brossard and Tender Buttons for knowing words can save us, Dead Can Dance and the Cocteau Twins for the opposite reason and the same, Alice in Wonderland and Angela Carter re-writing her, Euripides and Dante but also Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you must understand, Sappho and her lovers, Steve Reich and Stephen Scott because their names look good together, and oh, a healthy mix of David Sylvian and Withnail & I. Tom once told me I looked a bit like Freddie Mercury. It's true I think. Song in blood and everyone.
I make a chain of voice between your bodies, mmh yes.
Rockettothesky, AKA Jenny Hval, AKA me, is a one-woman band. It is also an invocation of the voices of the dead. What began as a secret project of spontaneous monologues for my dead dog, Inka, slowly became a string of musical recordings of improvised melodies.
I read, and I read by reading books and writing at the same time. It makes me a bad reader, but a great dreamer. And so I stitch and dream together other people's words and my own with the freedom of pop music - or perhaps more and more a free-form kind of pop music. In October, you'll see.
Anyway. In 2006, I released my first album: To Sing You Apple Trees, on TrustMe records. (Click here to buy it.)
Since then, I've been writing - and not just music. I'm a writer, you see, and I've been busy with pieces of fiction, articles, essays, spoken word pieces... You can get an anthology I'm in (English)...and another anthology I'm in (Norwegian). And I scribbled some stuff about David Bowie in a journal, too (Norwegian). So there.
...and then, this album. Yes, I've been dreaming again, a big project, conceptual dreaming. What? I'll tell you all about it on my album. For now: I am looking for voices not my own, like Friedrich Jürgenson recorded voices of ghosts in empty rooms. In fact my own voice might be full of other voices - voices of the dead, voices from another place.
Hei Jenny. Så gøy at du skal spille med min bror, Jo! Jeg håper på å komme inn til tross for min alder, uansett får jeg sett deg på gratisscenen. Jeg skal spille der selv med mitt band. Jeg koser meg så med musikken din, og jeg håper du har en flott sommer. Hilsen Jenny.
Heja! Kyrre fortalte meg om gaffa-anmeldelsen av dere, og jeg kan ikke egentlig forstå hvordan det er mulig å trille en ener på terningen av en konsert med dere. Jeg tror faktisk ikke det er mulig å spille en ener-konsert med det fantastiske utgangspunktet dere har. Når det er sagt, så er det på en måte bedre å få en ener enn å få en treer. Det viser jo tydlig at musikken din er noe man ikke kan stille seg likegyldig til, og dét er i hvert fall noe jeg streber etter når jeg lager musikk :)
Fortsett som du gjør - jeg kommer i hvert fall aldri til å slutte å like konsertene dine!
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