The Long Sleep EP, by Jenny Hval

The Long Sleep EP

by Jenny Hval

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Karen Vogt Intimate & immersive, yet somehow spacious. This EP is full of beautiful moments. Soothing, playful and dream-like. Favorite track: Spells.

Slut Aus Nord Beautiful, sooting music that is at once ethereal and yet concise, tied well together like an enchanting present by repeated motifs Favorite track: The Long Sleep.

rikm Over the course of it's four tracks, Jenny Hval creates a richly intimate aural space on "The Long Sleep", music that wraps around the listener, soothing, calming, whispering secrets and solipsisms...

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1.	Spells 06:10 video	buy track
2.	The Dreamer Is Everyone in Her Dream 04:40	buy track
3.	The Long Sleep 10:48	buy track
4.	I Want to Tell You Something 01:21	buy track

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What am I doing here? Am I communicating? Am I promoting?

I just want to tell you something.

There should be something I could tell you, there should be something I could do to reach you directly, but there is nothing useful in the way we define “you”, or “me”. There should be something I could tell you, there should be something I could say directly without lyrics and melody.

Maybe that’s what I’m trying here. Something else than lyrics or melody. It’s not the words. It’s not in the rhythm. It’s not in the streaming. It’s not in the “message”. It’s not in the product. It’s not in the algorithms. It’s not something you decided. It’s not something they decided for you.

I want to tell you something. I just want to say: Thank you. I love you.

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The follow-up to Jenny Hval’s acclaimed 2016 album Blood Bitch is The Long Sleep, an adventurous new EP that sees the Norwegian multidisciplinary artist embracing an instinctive, even subconscious, approach to creating meaning. In contrast to Hval’s more explicitly conceptual work, The Long Sleep foregrounds the act of composition itself, letting the melodies and structures reveal the other elements of the songs. All of the songs on the EP recycle the same compositional motives, but manipulate them into very different shapes that take them further and further out of their original, "life-like" context.

Hval recorded The Long Sleep with longtime collaborator Håvard Volden and producer Lasse Marhaug, along with an ace new supporting cast of talented players from the jazz world — Kyrre Laastad on percussion, Anja Lauvdal on piano, Espen Reinertsen on saxophone, and Eivind Lønning on trumpet. Hval calls them some of her favorite contemporary musicians, and their musical background helps to give the songs on The Long Sleep their intuitive, improvised feel.

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