Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval is a Norwegian artist and writer. Her music is poetic, sensual, challenging, dark and beautiful as well as melodic and spacious.
Hval's first album under her own name "Viscera" was released last year on the rune grammofon imprint before that she had recorded two albums under the alias Rockettothesky.
“Viscera” is set in the body. The songs are stories of flesh and travelling, both sensual and provocative. Hval 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, visceral 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?
