[DID NOT ATTEND: May 11, 2022] Jenny Hval / Discovery Zone
Jenny Hval is a Norwegian singer who plays unconventional indie rock.
She’s the kind of singer who is hard to get into, but once you do, there are worlds of wonder to discover. I haven’t gotten there yet, although I have enjoyed a lot of what I’ve listened to.
I feel that she is like Cate Le Bon for me. Someone I really want to dive into and fully embrace, yet someone who fights me at every opportunity.
I didn’t really enjoy Le Bon’s live show, even though I thought I’d be blown away by it. I have the same fear about a Jenny Hval show. The big difference, though is that Le Bon was playing a much bigger venue and Hval is playing a tiny venue, where her subtleties will no doubt be appreciated more. Perhaps next time, I shall have to make sure I go.
Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl. Raised in New York City and currently based in Berlin, Discovery Zone is the space in which Weihl creates pop music, video collage, powerpoint presentations and algorithmic art experiments. Her recordings and performances utilise a laboratory of instruments and 3D visuals to explore the universe as a source of information. Discovery Zone’s debut album was released on Mansions and Millions in 2020. In her upcoming work, Discovery Zone continues to inspect the juxtaposition between warm analog elements and cold digital sounds, conducting a conversation between the past and the future.
That sounds like a pretty cool double bill, but I was already going to see Built to Spill.
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