AAJ Review: Jenny Hval & Susanna, Meshes of Voice

[jkelman]

My review of Jenny Hval & Susanna's Meshes of Voice, today at All About Jazz.

After winning the Spellemannpris (Norwegian Grammy) for her first release on the fledgling Susanna Sonata label, the career-defining collaboration with Ensemble neoN, The Forester (2013), singer Susanna resists the urge to repeat herself by moving on to even more experimental territory with Meshes of Voice, this time together with fellow Norwegian vocalist Jenny Hval—a collaboration that, in retrospect, seems absolutely inevitable.

Prior to launching her Susanna Sonata label, Susanna was a (largely) Rune Grammofon recording artist, releasing albums like 2009's Flower of Evil under her own name, and others, like 3, from the same year, as one-half of her electro-centric alter ego, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, with keyboardist Morten Qvenild. Neither project prepared her fans, however, for 2012's If Grief Could Wait, her ECM Records debut and collaboration with Baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi that also introduced, in a different context, some of the music that would be heard the following year on The Forester.

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[Wounded Land]

I like these two ladies individually. Sounds like an interesting collaboration.