Rockettothesky
"Medea"
Location: Oslo
Website: http://myspace.com/rockettothesky
Bio: 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 ... (more)
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.
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