“Motherhood is a form of heroism and survival means battle on Jenny Wilson’s album “Hardships!” (Gold Medal). “If I’d returned from a fight,” she sings in the album’s title song, “If I was bloodstained and wild, if I held a trophy in my arms, oh, man!/Not a newborn child!” A Swedish songwriter with English lyrics, Ms. Wilson creates improbable hybrids in arrangements she mostly builds by herself in the studio: piano-centered pop, the singsong melodies of current R&B, brittle xylophone interjections and choirgirl vocal harmonies. She has echoes of Kate Bush in her voice, but she’s just as likely to hint at Beyoncé unplugged as she ricochets between the domestic and the metaphysical.”
AND ALSO -
Jenny Wilson at Viva Radio, Brooklyn NY, playing ONLY HERE FOR THE FIGHT and a couple of other songs!
It’s summer and summer means new visions, new ideas, new versions, new vibrations and new releases!
Finally Hardships! will be released on my own label, Gold Medal Recordings, via Redeye in North America!
The 24th of August it will be out on the streets in the States. Be ware!
By the way, this is a quick version of Like a Fading Rainbow, recorded in my kitchen.
Turn on the radio!
I am this week’s host for the radio show MUSIK GUIDEN, P3!
I will play loads of hypnotic, odd, amazing, rhythmic, fat, thin, happy, sad, black and white music - all my favorites from back in the days until now, and tell my stories and memories about each song!
Monday to Friday at 7.30.
Listen and read more about it here!
…the first episode of the radio series I KRINGDRIVANDESTS TJÄNST (In the Duty of Rambling) at Swedish Radio P1, Friday the 2nd April at 3.45 pm!
I KRING DRIVANDETS TJÄNST is a new concept program produced in collaboration with the Swedish author Sara Paborn. She reads her screamingly funny short stories about her more or less unsuccessful journeys, and I make brand new versions of well known songs.
The first story is called “Alphypnos” (”Alpine Hypnosis”) and the exclusively recorded song is, “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain”! Don’t miss it!
Bonjour!
I am in Paris. Unfortunately I don’t speak french, but it’s an almost poetic experience to be here anyway! Only to walk on dry streets, feel the warm sun against my face and breath in the fragrances of spring, feels like a poem to me, not kidding! Sweden is still a white and only white landscape of snow and slippery ice, and has been for too long now, it seems.
However, I am in Paris to write the score for the play DROTTNING KRISTINA (Queen Kristina), directed by Farnaz Arbabi.
Premiere the 29th of April at Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Buy tickets now!
AND. I’m also here in Paris to make a few shows.
So…Frenchwomen and frenchmen! Don’t miss the concert you’ve been waiting for way too long:
March 25th - Les Femmes S’en Mêlent/ La Laiterie, Strasbourg
March 26th - La Ciel, Grenoble
March 27th - Les Femmes S’en Mêlent/La Maroquinere , Paris
Jenny Wilson Feat. Tensta Gospel Choir will tour this summer!
Dates confirmed so far:
1 maj DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
31/7 Storsjöyran, Östersund, Sweden
28/8 Close to home, Borås, Sweden
For more information please check the complete schedule on “SHOWS”!
On a cold winters day in January, Jenny, her excellent band and the mighty Tensta Gospel Choir played at the Lorensbergs Theater in Gothenburg. The place were packed with people and the concert was a sweaty, majestic and completely boiling show!
P3 Live were there and recorded it. Listen to parts of the concert here!
Hey everybody!
Do you wanna hang with The Jenny Wilson? Then, for God’s sake don’t miss the program “Dom kallar oss artister” on SVT tomorrow night at 20.30!
