Childhood memory, olfactory senses, metaphor and emotions uncurl in this strangely beautiful new number inverting Gertrude Stein’s 1913 poem Sacred Emily (“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”) by the Norwegian experimental artist, heralding her upcoming new LP, Iris Silver Mist, out on 4AD. The song gradually builds to an uplifting melody and key change. To explore and enjoy more by Jenny Hval, see also the other embedded links below.
Now, imagine a stage decorated with intention.
This stage is obviously, literally, falling apart.
A rose is a rose is a rose is a cigarette.
The stage ... is now decorated ... with cigarette smoke.
From a hundred, no from a thousand mouths in synchrony
This is every cigarette my mother ever smoked
Dreaming to be a rose
But too far to be a rose.
I was singing in my room, she smoked on the balcony,
Long inhales and long exhales performed in choreography
Over our dead-end town, smoke moving delicately
Dreaming up the summer air, twirling like our real body
To be a rose
But too far to be a rose
Music travels dressed in hazer, dressed as us, if you didn't get it.
And so I dress in the stage, the microphone, the flowerbed,
Underneath is curtain calling, follow me, flower instead
Give me a rose
Too far to be a rose
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