Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval (b. 1980) has in recent years made a name for herself as a writer, journalist, recording artist and sound artist both in Norway and abroad. Her first two albums were released as Rockettothesky. When her third record Viscera was released in 2011, Italian Vogue described her as: “an artist of significant competence, both musically and intellectually.” Multidisciplinary and transgressive are words often employed to describe her art, but Jenny Hval’s polyphonic artistry is in fact seamlessly interwoven between musical Read Full BioJenny Hval (b. 1980) has in recent years made a name for herself as a writer, journalist, recording artist and sound artist both in Norway and abroad. Her first two albums were released as Rockettothesky. When her third record Viscera was released in 2011, Italian Vogue described her as: “an artist of significant competence, both musically and intellectually.” Multidisciplinary and transgressive are words often employed to describe her art, but Jenny Hval’s polyphonic artistry is in fact seamlessly interwoven between musical, literary, visual and performative modes of expression. Despite her young age, she has already infused, carved and modulated an artistic voice that is altogether present, accessible and obscurely complex at the same time.

Jenny Hval studied Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne, and Literature at the University of Oslo. She has released the albums To Sing You Apple Trees (Trust Me Records, 2006) and Medea (Trust Me Records 2008) under the alias Rockettothesky. Her third album Viscera (Rune Grammofon 2011) was released under her own name. 2012 saw the release of the debut album of Hval’s band project, Nude On Sand, in which she collaborates with Håvard Volden. Jenny Hval made her debut as a writer with the book Perlebryggeriet (‘The Pearl Brewery’) with Kolon Forlag in 2009. Alongside this she has contributed to magazines and newspapers like Vinduet, ENO, Bergens Tidende and Klassekampen. In 2010 Hval contributed to the artwork War Song by the American artists Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez that was performed during the Ultima Festival in Oslo that year. In 2011 she created the sound installation ENTER/ Flesh for the bigger installation ENTER Sonic Tank at Tou Scene in Stavanger. In collaboration with the writer Inger Bråtveit she also created the work Kvit Søppel (‘White Trash’) in 2011.

She is currently working on her second book and her fourth studio album.
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Conceptual Romance
by Jenny Hval

And sometimes I dream you've left me
And I'm so lost I wake up high
High on madness
A sexual holding pattern
Stuck in erotic self-oscillation
This landmine of a heart
The only one I've ever had
I've ever had

Conceptual romance is on my mind
I call it abstract romanticism
Conceptual romance is you
It's you and I
It's you and I

This blood bitch's tale
It goes a bit like this
I lose myself in the rituals of bad art, in failure
I want to give up but I can tell
My heartbreak is too sentimental for you

Conceptual romance is on my mind
I call it abstract romanticism
Conceptual romance is you
It's you and I
It's you and I

So I lose my gaze to keep you
Creating a curve for the eyes
A rejected body
And losing it is constant, but such a lonely place
What can I say?
I don't know who I am, but

I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it

I'm high, high on madness
These are my combined failures
I understand infatuation, rejection
They can connect and become everything
Everything that's torn up in your life
But come with me, I want to show you something
The original wound, the origin of the world (I'm working on it)

Of the world (I'm working on it)
Of the world (I'm working on it)
(I'm working on it)
Of the world (I'm working on it)

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Written by: Jenny Hval

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The Fantasy Clinic

Jenny deserves far more recognition than she's getting, such a talent xox

Espen1039

she's going to roskilde, Denmark this summer. Huge festival

Marco91

ok

ANDROID_KIRTRON

ok

Alexandre Boucher-l

ok

Dylan Law

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Hambloko

I don't think I could have found a better album at the time I did. Going through a pretty bad break up and this album just screams that I'm not broken for feeling how I do.

Plasmatic Bach

@P P Exactly. That's why none of us are.

P P

we're all broken

XristosBlackflag

And sometimes I dream you've left me
And I'm so lost
I wake up high
High on madness
A sexual holding pattern

Stuck in erotic self-oscillation
This landmine of a heart
The only one
I am a heart
I am a heart
[Chorus]
Conceptual romance is on my mind
I call it abstract romanticism
Conceptual romance is you
It's you and I
It's you and I

[Verse 2]
This blood bitch's tale goes a bit like this:
I lose myself in the rituals of bad art and failure
I want to give up
But I can tell
My heartbreak is too sentimental for you

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
So I lose my gaze to keep you
Creating a cuff for the eyes
Rejected by the illusion, it is constant
But such a lonely place

What can I say?
I don't know who I am, but

[Bridge]
I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it
I'm working on it

[Verse 4]
I'm high, high on madness
These are my combined failures
I understand infatuation, rejection
They can connect and become everything
Everything that's torn up in your life
But come with me, I want to show you something
The original holy origin of the world

Of the world
Of the world

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