Tag: Jenny Hval
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Tracks of the Week 21.10.23

Tracks of the Week
Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and distilled experiences of their youth, mining the nineties for shreds of old band practices and the digitised squibs and pixelated bits which made up the formative years...

Tracks of the Week 19.11.22

Tracks of the Week
This week the tap dancer Janne Eraker, fiddle player Vegar Vårdal, and bassist Roger Arntzen land with the click of a heel on the Lisbon-based jazz label Clean Feed Records, as from the depths of the pandemic the unique trio emerge to unveil their debut album Gol Variations. In fact the birth of the record stretches all the way...

Tracks of the Week 12.03.22

Tracks of the Week
Fresh from feral lands, this week Laura Cannell takes flight on an album which figures the antiphonal call and response of birdsong. Soaring out over the marshes, furrowed fields, and scattered treetops of the fen valley, the composer arms herself with bass, tenor, alto, and double recorders as chordal drones and oscillating tones conjure a minimal chamber music. Meanwhile...