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Rockettothesky

Let's build an Eiffel Tower of our bones.

About Me

I'm writing.
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Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2006
Band Website: this one.
Band Members: Jenny Hval plays with fire.
Live:
Solo: Jenny & her pitch shifter, plus guitar and other things that run on batteries.
Duo: with HÃ¥vard Volden (guitar, zither, shoe drum, metal toys and noise)
Band: with Jan Martin Smørdal (guitar, synth, cutlery and various other things) and Andreas Paleologos (synth, computer and anything USB enabled...)
Influences: Lately:
Enna
The Madonie Mountains
Kalevala
Arthropod
Talking to Medea
Dreaming of Martha Graham
Drömfakulteten
On the slopes of Mount Etna
Mimnermos & Mummy Big
Karen Dalton
Dans les arbres
Drawing maps
Laura Jean
I sing of arms and the man
owls on Mt Etna
&
a dog in the bathroom.
Always: Automatic writing and automatic singing, Meredith Monk, Diamanda Galas, Anne Carson, Nicole Brossard, Aritha van Herk. Dead Can Dance, the Cocteau Twins, seashells, Hélène Cixous, Persona, Sans Soleil, The Anchor Song, Tender Buttons, Euripides, Sappho, Allegri, Steve Reich, Stephen Scott. The Story of the Eye and O, Caravaggio and Man Ray. Blood and revenge.
Ghosts make a chain between our bodies.
Sounds Like:
Surrealist folktales.

Record Label: www.trustmerecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Andrews health care festival, new songs

So, next week I would like to invite you all to Andrew's Health Care Festival. Yes, it sounds cute, and it will indeed be lovely, but it is also a show supporting a very special musician, Andrew D'Ang...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

fri resonans, ennabella from hell’a, and on recording

I just wanted to tell you about two lovely festivals I'll be playing this week. First, there is the Fri Resonans festival in Trondheim on friday (16th). I'll be playing solo with me guitar, me sa...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:41:00 PST

Alarm and Prospero

Two things for you: First, the album has been nominated for two ALARM-awards, in the pop and new artist category. Go vote for best new artist or best pop album.The second I forgot. I'll get back to yo...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:00:00 PST

FERSKVARE

Hee Ho!I'm about to leave for London and the Great Escape Festival (must remember to buy adapter, must remember to buy adapter), but first I thought i might tell you about my piece of WORD in a new an...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Tue, 15 May 2007 02:01:00 PST

band practice and video

well.as you can see, there are now two video clips on this page. the new one is from a theatre production me and my friend pia wilkinson (hi!) did music for in 2002. i never actually got to see it. an...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:38:00 PST

i found a song!

today i finally found a song i've been trying to find for years. i heard it on the radio once in 1995, quickly recorded a bit of it onto my 1995 mixtape, but never wrote down what it was. but it was o...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:01:00 PST

i love

rosmarie waldrop.in other news: march 8 just passed last week, congrats to all the ladies, biological or self-defined, with or without nail polish. i spent the day playing and thinking about feminism....
Posted by Rockettothesky on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST

Spellemann and Under Milk Wood

Today Rockettothesky was nominated for a Spellemann - the Norwegian Grammys, or ARIAs or you know, that national music prize thang. I kept getting text messages saying "Congrats", but I had no clue wh...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

2007 has spoken...

...and it told me, with the voice of that voiceover movie trailer guy:"In 2007, you will read slower." So that's what I'll do. ps. I'm not really reading "Ravishing of Lol Stein", I'm reading "La doul...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:55:00 PST

I love the north, and a goth mixtape!

Hello yous,just want to say two things:1. I've just been on a mini-mini tour to the north. Trondheim, Bodø, Narvik, Tromsø. And I loved it. The nicest people on the planet, great music (the OTHER band...
Posted by Rockettothesky on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:29:00 PST