Jenny Hval

A new song is out today - High Alice. This one is a labyrinth. Link on the internet. Suggested reading list: Clarice Lispector. 📝🐰🕳

Working on The Practice of Love piece… and we have several performances coming up! 20th - 21st Sep - Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival & Black Box teater, Oslo NO 29th Sep - Milton Court, London UK 16th Oct - Mousonturm, Frankfurt DE 30th Oct - Contre Pompidou, Paris, FR 9th Nov - Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht NL 23rd Nov - Ars Cameralis Festival, Katowice, PL More shows coming soon. (Ps. Swipe to last pic for treat)

The Practice of Love out September 13th. Pre-order available here: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr229-jenny-hval-the-practice-of-love First single "Ashes to Ashes" available now. https://youtu.be/7Bq5s2oRp24

Jenny Hval

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Hi. It’s 🌈announcement time🌈 I’ll be performing a new multidisciplinary piece, The Practice of Love, at @Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival in September with an amazing ensemble of artists - Jenny Berger Myhre, Håvard Volden, Orfee Schuijt, Vivian Wang, Laura Jean and Espen Reinertsen! Working with language, magic, sound and bodies. We will be performing at my beloved Black Box teater. Link on the internet. Love 🔑

It is a pleasure to get to work with @le_guess_who festival this year as one of their guest curators (I should post all the names of the other guest curators too, with tags etc - but it’s raining... check out the picture though)! Stay tuned for more info...later on... 🌈

My first novel has now been translated to Swedish - published by TankeKraft Förlag! 🎂🇸🇪I’m heading to Stockholm this upcoming Monday - April 29th - to talk about it with translator @jphogstrom (I've added the event to my page...)! Kom kom! #kokong

(Norwegian only 😢) Håvard - @mrvolden - og jeg er med i en podcast! Denne uka sammen, som @lgrls , og de neste ukene hver for oss... Gå til @radiotidsmaskinen og klikk-klikk-klikk for å høre våre favorittlåter fra 1994 (jeg kan faktisk ikke huske hva jeg valgte 🥶)

First 2019 show is a Lost Girls (@lgrls ) extravaganza happening this Saturday - at the one and only @allearsfestival, and with extra(vagant) band member @jennybergermyhre ! It will be weird, and I’m not really sure if we will be «playing a show» (what is it to «play a show»?) but we will present something that is made with love (and it won’t be a cake). A Lost Girls Show!

PARADISE ROT, my debut novel, is out today, IN ENGLISH, thanks to the excellent Verso Books! It was first published in Norwegian in 2009, and finally it has been translated. Go get it at your local bookshop, or at your favourite online bookstore... And catch me here at these events (events listed on my page but here they are anyway!) in the next couple of weeks... I'll be doing a lot of reading, rotting and talking 🍎🍄🥀🥀🍂🌙 US EVENTS October 8 @ MOON PALACE, Minneapolis October 12 @ POWERHOUSE Arena, NYC (in conversation w/ Chelsea Hogue) October 13 @ MoMA PS1, NYC (in conversation w/ Brandon Stosuy) UK EVENTS October 22 @ Somerset House Studios, London (w/ Anna Wood / The Quietus) October 23 @ London Review Bookshop, London (w/ Laura Snapes) October 24 @ Rough Trade Bristol (w/ Kezia Cochrane) October 25 @ Bluecoat, Liverpool

We're not playing a lot of shows in the coming months, but we're making an exception tomorrow - at c/o pop Festival in Cologne! I haven't played in Cologne since..2015?...so it's about time. Expect brass, synths, letters and pajamas.

NEXT WEEK. What? Swipe left. Twice.

Last week I was part of a very special project with this amazing group of people - a Joni Mitchell tribute concert for @oslojazz . This is not something I have done before, and I didn’t grow up listening to Mitchell’s music either, but I am so happy I got to experience it. The project was not just about playing fantastic music with fantastic musicians, but about creating a collaborative, positive and inclusive space. When each of us weren’t playing during the show, we were gathered on a couch on stage to listen to the others and to still be part of the group. It was very touching to get to do this on the huge stage in the Norwegian opera house. Big ❤️ to band leader Anja Lauvdal and her thoughts about music as community, dialogue and empathy. Also big 💛🧡 to all of these people, who combined have endless amounts of creative spirit and are true gems of the local (and interstellar) music scene. @susannamagical @fridaannevik @heida.karine @wintherchristian @sondrelerche @magnusskavhaugnergaard @roheytaalah @hannapaulsberg @torztein @hanshulbaekmo

Playing in 🇩🇰 soon...twice! First up, a LOST GIRLS show + a reading from my book PARADISE ROT at the art programme at Roskilde Festival!

I really enjoyed doing this interview with Noisey, on the phone hiding from North Carolina rain showers, talking about chilling, algorithms and writing while slowly realising I was standing outside a metaphysical shop.

~•~•~ Watch the new video for Spells here ~•~•~

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Also the video for Spells is out! If you’ve dreamt (or slept) of watching me, and a bunch of amazing people, dance, here is your chance. Directed by the ☀️ @constancetenvik and this amazing cast and crew: 🎥Film photographer: Johan Kuurne Steadicam operator: Stig Indrebø 1st AC: Jonathan Bevan Lighting: Lisa Stai, Bjørn Philip Curtis, Odin X Producer: Sanna Groven Art director: Constance Tenvik Editing: Constance Tenvik Grading: Johan Kuurne 👑 Costumes: Admir Batlak Constance Tenvik 🌠 Starring: Jenny Hval Renate Reinsve Orfee Schuijt Benedicte Bølling Rhea Dall Inti Wang Bjørnar Pedersen Saga Bernadida Jacob Steinmo Vegar Bjørnshagen Julie Askildsen Hanna Vaksvik Skarstad Eirik Traavik Nesheim Marianne Tenvik Jon Erling Tenvik Johanne Thurmann-Moe Maiken Riis Eiliertsen Matilde Sem Kvernevik Håkon Schia Embla Eide Ronja Perez Jenni Yang Fredrik Austad Sara Moland Cleo Ramstad 💒 Location: Gamle Logen (Kristian Thornblad-Engbakken) Oslo Militœre Samfund (Ann Mari Wang-Johannesen) 😎 Sunglasses: Gregersen Optikk (Bygdøy Alle) 🦁 Wigs: Westerdals 🍿 Catering: Scandic Hotel Vulkan Kiwi Bygdøy alle 🥋 Slippers and sheets: Thon Hotel Opera 🍭 Candy: Dropsen Østbanehallen Lucky Lips TGR Yummi Heaven 🥖 Baked goods: Brødbakerne Skøyen

This one is out today! The Long Sleep EP, produced by me and @lassemarhaug , recorded with the wonderful @mrvolden , @kyrrelaastad , Anja Lauvdal (of @skrap.duo ), Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lønning ✨✨. Cover by @constancetenvik ☀️ . Released by my 🌈 @sacredbones and @sutissuerecords . More later today, but for now, listen and sleep, good night! 🛌

Thanks to all the lovely people who came to see us on our trip to the US this month! And also thanks to the superb people at @nordicmuseum , @lodgeroom , @form and @moogfest ! These pictures don’t do anyone justice though. Except perhaps a couple of versions of America. Tomorrow we play in Den Haag, more on that later!

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Jenny Hval

The Long Sleep EP is out tomorrow!

Hi! I have a new band! Here is the trailer for the Lost Girls 12" "Feeling", out March 2nd, 2018 on Smalltown Supersound. Lost Girls are Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden. Directed by Jenny Berger Myhre.