Jenny Hval

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JENNY HVAL
Jenny Hval’s previous, highly acclaimed Rune Grammofon album “Viscera” (2011), recorded with her own free rock trio, overflowed with intimate detail and surrealist bodily imagery. The follow-up “Innocence Is Kinky” was produced in Bristol by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, who helped bring out the intimate qualities of her lyrics and sharpened her improvisational tendencies, weaving spellbinding new forms of intelligent, experimental pop with injections from mythology, theory and gender politics. You can trace her no-holds-barred streams of consciousness and unorthodox subject matter back to earlier heroes such as Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld (her title puns on their LP “Silence Is Sexy”), Patti Smith, Michael Gira, Nick Cave and Kate Bush.

Previous album 'Viscera' was voted one of the best albums of 2011 by Uncut, Drowned In Sound, Cokemachineglow.

LEON MICHENER
Leon Michener is a London born pianist and composer. His unique and often scatalogical approach to music encompasses art, video and electronics and seeks to push beyond the boundaries of what is technically and sonically possible on the traditional piano.

"Michener has come up with something truly original" The Observer