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Something Wonderful

by Henriette Sennenvaldt

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Luciano Erasmo Bustos
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Luciano Erasmo Bustos Henriette's lyrics have always made a strong impression on me. Now listening to her great and mature interpretation of these, over the intelligent composition with those use of silences is just exquisite. Favorite track: Very Fantastic.
stillill
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stillill from the singer of the amazing band Under Byen, is something new, something wonderful
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1.
New Skill 04:26
a new skill of being interested took a lot of hard forgetting and some serious patience we didn’t know it then, but it was exciting it had a powdery and fresh silence a wild, throbbing softness a dazzling like any information dazzling in a theater of air bringing its very best romance even the ordinary took us by surprise we knew it then, it was exciting we ate and ate that fresh silence it slowed down the world and we could move everywhere and look at everything all defenseless
2.
evening light a gold gush touches us both the front and the back of the body very fantastic his concentration in it, the peeping, the invocation, he said the baring will happen by itself very fantastic the baring happened by itself the little birds’ feet, the animals’ paws, hooves and legs lit up in the gold gush very fantastic just had to be just perfectly normal do whatever we wanted then we would see what would come of it o we like you evening light arms, legs and hopes attached to us a stench of turmoil which we try to rub off on each other a gold gush that touches us both the front and the back of the body very fantastic chose a battle we figured we could win wore a dashing and obscene gaze struck — swooped — open — see — it’s only us the sickly-sweet taste in the kiss, the small excuses make us and take place in the evening light
3.
Choir 01:13
4.
we loved on purpose it’s terribly difficult things were so interesting we almost fainted wouldn’t think of gentle or reassuring stuff wanted a madness worthy of the dread power like real power we loved on purpose it was so interesting both of us were both of us and it was a new and expanded loneliness power like real power it’s terribly difficult to take the lies simply as something impatient that hasn’t happened yet as if we’re a work aching to be done a wonderful work just aching to be done and be done oh so interesting to take the loss of face simply as having a face and seeing we loved on purpose with power like real power
5.
Clumsy 05:41
clumsy! we lost our confidence in an old friend our sense of the significance of this thing clumsy! we seem to have forgotten why we loved or how we loved we lost it though we're quite sure where we put it that we wrapped it and kept it never once suffocating it we let it run real free and let it be really real let it come to us to be loved like a baby didn’t we? well, we seem to have forgotten how we loved in a grey and golden we didn’t have time for any war we were too busy being holy it was a work that had to be done not for someone but by someone if there was something wonderful something you could do only once in your life would you do it now? later we went to see the exhibit of the Sunset Ice Cream Truck and the Burning House and oh we liked you evening light and so wanted some truth didn't we? eavesdropping on him conversing all smart in cotton button-down the haircut of an academic and such markers of identity spoke right into this desire for his happiness and knowledge or rather that rare fusion of the two sometimes we forget a day before it's even over sometimes we see right through someone and in panic do nothing
6.
most proud of how we were gullible we stumble in a blade of grass and laugh our unsolvable to elicit us we lick that blade of grass and understand everything as a question and it’is like a joy on a maggot-white moor our lashes the length of our skirts, we graze depth in the newly built, ancient, hovering house hovering building, the scissors, adeptly depth in a superior innocence, don’t we deserve? depth in a superior innocence, don’t we deserve a small revenge? don’t we deserve a small deer holding a small banner in its mouth? we’re most proud of an unbroken trust depth in that pride uh huh it’s splendid on that maggot-white moor our lashes the length of our skirts, we graze and escape only by making a magic sign birds followed us all the way and they were quiet we’re a young male, innocently we’re already happening the lisp of the pines is a many-sided sound in many ways innocently but innocently
7.
all, every dear dear golden all agreements of only one all beloved agreements still a boat made of wrong a huge friendship huge Opel huge regulations little friend not colonel nothing strange nothing strange a sense of a large tooth that shouldn’t even be here golden how dear golden it is also to stand it is also friendly the gold weight light and warm and share the common swift a golden engine a golden mood on the good piece of smiling gold a day as golden as that it is such by various and sweet warm sea with stomach full and mounting in that eternal honey and gold cooperation long lines of rays are poured down soft and lightning steeped hands all, everyone and a huge peaceful peace and peace and peace nests are empty bees grow when flying everything honey-colored lights honey-colored gestures everything
8.
There’s an intimacy in any abuse like we’re not only ours a gravity between wound and blow like we’re not only ours an extravagant attention, an extravagant distraction an uneasy tenderness and such pleasures in getting it and losing it like we’re not only ours we rub our cheek against some river, that’s how we laugh at our humiliation like we’re not only ours our certain and specific feet on a porch aw these terrible and terrific gifts and how we’re so certain and specific about it like we’re not only ours we couldn’t have done it without doing it also, you know, that question, well whose then, if not only ours isn´t it that, you know, some answers lie within a question helpless hips, helpless wisdom in a green, impossibly detailed air impossible really, touched impossibly like we’re not only ours

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released November 13, 2020

Songs by Henriette Sennenvaldt except Very Fantastic
by Sennenvaldt/Sennenvaldt & Saxild and

Nothing Strange by Halling Nielsen/Sennenvaldt.
Lyrics for Nothing Strange: excerpt from Også by Rasmus Halling Nielsen, translated and used with kind permission.

Produced by Peter Barnow & Henriette Sennenvaldt
Mixed by Peter Barnow
Mastered by Greg Calbi
Recorded by Peter Barnow/ Nils Grönda Henriette Sennenvaldt in Chicago, Copenhagen and London 2016 - 2019

Sleeve design by Studio jetz-imme

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Henriette Sennenvaldt Denmark

Henriette Sennenvaldt is an artist from Denmark and former frontwoman of Under Byen.Sennenvaldt’s solo work delves into territory at the far edges of pop, and balances moments with tenderness and wit, earnestness and camp. Sennenvaldt carves out precarious grooves someplace between fragility and possibility on Something Wonderful. The new album is out on Paper Bag Records on November 13. ... more

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