Jenny Berger Myhre - Lint
(c) 2017 Canigou Records
Artist....: Jenny Berger Myhre
Album.....: Lint
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 8
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Canigou Records
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Full Stereo
URL.......: http://deezer.com/album/48312692
Tracklist:
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1. Jordan 5:33
2. Nar Det Renner Over 1:18
3. Lage Setning Av Et Ord 2:23
4. Mater A Forsta Seg Selv I Verden 5:51
5. Heyrdu 4:30
6. Interne Puslespill 4:44
7. Somnambulant 1:38
8. Speak Softly 3:59
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29:56
Total:73.08 MB / 29:56
Release Notes:
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Lint assembles field recordings, fragments of song, textures, loops, lo-fi
electronics into dusty but always-sunlit collages. The album, composed, recorded
and produced by Myhre and mastered by Lasse Marhaug, is a diary and scrapbook in
sound, a window into the artistÆs world, at once extraordinarily intimate and
open, unapologetic, inclusive.
JennyÆs own notes on Lint:
ôThe sound material of which this album is made, has been collected in the years
between 2011 and 2016. I try to use my sound recorder in the same way I use a
camera - capturing moments, not necessarily important moments, but allowing them
to grow in the archive.
I think photographing and recording are quite similar in this aspectà With
photography, the moment changes quite a lot over time, the photo being one
version of it, the moment becoming something of its own. With a recording,
however, I find that the nostalgia can be even more physical. The sound can
completely throw me back into a past moment, like a smell. I would record small
sketches for songs as well as my friends talking, bird calls, a bike ride, and
from there I would compose with all of these.
Most of my song-writing (the working process) I guess is very immediate, the
song either is or it isnÆt. With Lint, IÆve been working with notions of memory,
juxtaposing different moments to create new ones. Also: trying to listen to
these recordings as just sound, removed from their original context. In that
way, finding combinations that wouldnÆt necessarily make sense in a thematic
way, but it gives a strengthened form of listening, and it allows me to listen
back in a less nostalgic way, more moving, ever-changing. Way back, I learnt
that every time one tries to remember a detailed moment, the memory of that
moment changes. So the more nostalgic I feel about something, and thus think
about it, the further away it goes from what actually happened. I found it
absolutely terrifying as a 20-year old, but now I guess I find it extraordinary
that the past can be changed this way. I guess thatÆs what Lint is about -
playing with memories, using them as tools for composing.ö
Jenny Berger Myhre is a musician, photographer and videographer currently living
in Oslo, Norway.
credits
released January 3, 2017
REVIEWS
Wake The Deaf:
ôJenny Berger Myhre is an experimental folk artist from Norway who utilises her
interest in other artforms to push the boundaries and explore complex themes
more fully and intuitively. Aside from being a photographer, Myhre also records
the audio of her surroundings, finding sound can evoke an even more physical
reactionàLint focuses on how memories can interact and change with the passing
of time, and how nostalgic thinking about the previous events ironically
reshapes our memories and thus the past as we understand it. While such unsteady
footing could be overwhelming and unpleasant in some hands, Myhre creates songs
that find peace with the idea, learning to find beauty and wonder in the
shifting of perspective and what we once thought of as ætruthÆ.ö
Jez Riley French for Treasure Hiding:
ôItÆs important to re-set from time to time. To keep hold of experience and
insight but to keep fresh, keep that elemental sense of exploration and simple
enjoymentàThese are field recordings and, in my opinion I really do hear in them
that difference between an artist who uses them as a fashionable effect or to
fain authenticity, and one that simply enjoys finding music in sound - and sound
within musicàThere are sketches of songs, field recordings of urban life and
domestic activity. The sound of cassettes and vinyl. ThereÆs an open aspect to
it, and an individual world listened in on. I am hearing a collection of times
in someoneÆs days and that they matter to said artist is communicated to the
listener.ö