Jenny Hval Announces European Tour

Musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval has announced Summer live appearances in Spain, Poland, UK, Germany and her native Norway. Tickets go on general sale this Wednesday 25th March at 10am UK time.

Jenny Hval Tour Dates
10 May – BARCELONA, SPAIN, En Altres Paraules [Ticket Link]
29 May – LUBLIN, POLAND, CODES Festival [Ticket Link]
3 June – LONDON, UK, ICA [Ticket Link]
4 June – MANCHESTER, UK, The White Hotel [Ticket Link]
5 June – EDINBURGH, UK, Hidden Door Festival [Ticket Link]
19 June – BERLIN, GERMANY, Kantine am Berghain [Ticket Link]
20 June – SPRINGE, GERMANY, Gut Bennigsen [Ticket Link]
7 August – EGERSUND, NORWAY, Tideless Festival [Ticket Link]

Hval’s latest album, Iris Silver Mist features the singles, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ (“one of the most infectious songs the Norwegian singer-songwriter has laid to tape,” The Guardian), and ‘Lay Down’.

On Iris Silver Mist, one song bleeds into the next, just like a daughter is connected to her mother, the smoke of a cigarette sticks to a sweater, or the layers of a perfume unfold over time. A perfume, with its heart notes and scented accords, shares its language with music. Both travel through air, simultaneously invisible and distinct. Named after the fragrance made by the French perfume house Serge Lutens, Iris Silver Mist also moves like a scent – between flower and smoke, ghostly yet alive. The album is sensual, tactile and intimate – touching you as smells, sounds, and images do when they multiply.

Iris Silver Mist started with the absence of music; as live music disappeared during the pandemic, Jenny filled the void with perfume. It was only later she understood why: she was searching for another way to sense presence, to fill the emptiness music had left behind. During a series of performances last year titled I want to be a Machine, Jenny performed many of the tracks on Iris Silver Mist for the first time, before they’d been recorded, and surrounded by rice cookers, filling the songs with the misty smell of rice. Starting the album with a performance was quite an unusual approach—and it was also an intimate one. Emphasising the importance of the physical and live elements of music, the album’s thirteen songs hold the experience that was lacking in her life for so long.