| Band Members | Jenny Hval plays with fire.
Live:
Solo: Jenny & her pitch shifter, plus guitar and other things that run on batteries.
Duo: with Håvard Volden (guitar, zither, shoe drum, metal toys and noise)
Band: with Jan Martin Smørdal (guitar, synth, cutlery and various other things) and Andreas Paleologos (synth, computer and anything USB enabled...) |
| Influences | Lately:
Enna
The Madonie Mountains
Kalevala
Arthropod
Talking to Medea
Dreaming of Martha Graham
Drömfakulteten
On the slopes of Mount Etna
Mimnermos & Mummy Big
Karen Dalton
Dans les arbres
Drawing maps
Laura Jean
I sing of arms and the man
owls on Mt Etna
&
a dog in the bathroom.
Always:
Automatic writing and automatic singing, Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Anne Carson, Nicole Brossard, Aritha van Herk. Dead Can Dance, the Cocteau Twins, seashells, Hélène Cixous, Persona, Sans Soleil, The Anchor Song, Tender Buttons, Euripides, Sappho, Allegri, Steve Reich, Stephen Scott. The Story of the Eye and O, Caravaggio and Man Ray. Blood and revenge.
Ghosts make a chain between our bodies. |
