Norwegian performer Jenny Hval has announced the upcoming release of her new album ‘Iris Silver Mist’ on May 2nd with a tribute to her best perfume.
She had started working on the album a few years ago and had decided she was ready to share her passion with the world this year.
The title of Hval’s upcoming album is a reference to a fragrance by the nose Maurice Roucel for the French perfume house Serge Lutens. The performer had debuted some performances even introducing some rice cookers in the theaters.
‘Iris Silver Mist’, which features 13 tracks, would be introduced by a lead single ‘To be a Rose.’ Speaking on choosing the track as her lead single, Hval said:
“To Be A Rose” was written as a restless pop structure. It has a chorus, with chords and a melody, but each chorus sounds slightly different like we are experiencing the melody from different seasons, decades or even different bodies. The clichéd rose metaphor in the song is equally restless. It can change shape into a cigarette, and then evaporate to smoke.
“My mother and I (two restless humans) are both present in the song: ‘I was singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony/Long inhales and long exhales performed in choreography.’
“If about anything, ‘To be a rose’ is about how one thing becomes another thing, how we all come from somewhere and someone, and how this is stranger and more powerful than we think.”
Tracklist
- Lay down
- To be a rose
- I want to start at the beginning
- All night long
- Heiner muller
- You died
- Spirit mist
- I don’t know what free is
- The artist is absent
- Huffing my arm
- The gift
- A ballad
- I want the end to sound like this
