ZOLA MENNENÖH

„A labour of Love“ is a 60 minute long piece elegantly merging Mennenöh’s various musicals influences and interests going from Hans Abrahamsens „Let me tell you“ to Björks „Utopia“. As in her Debut „Longing for Belonging“ she immersed herself into creating a musical and visual universe of her own. Together with her organic-synthetic Ensemble Zola Mennenöh has created a beautiful and airy minimalistic sonic landscape around her powerful-sensitive voice, oscillating freely between beautiful songs, spoken word and noise instrumentals. Accompanied by a paper sculpture, video installation and white costumes, this project aims to collaborate with visual arts and open, creative physical spaces to create immersive performance experiences – full of beauty, emotionality and sensitivity.

Though the music’s identity is delicate as in her Debut „Longing for Belonging“, she roots deeper in her own voice, both as a singer and in her artistic identity as a soloist, using a fuller and more embodied voice quality and grounding in a consequent instrumental frame of voice, strings, keys and electronics.  

„A labour of Love“ is also the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year long Artistic Research Project Zola led in Copenhagen, Berlin and Oslo, where she explored the voice as a sound body and a tool of expressions for one’s own identity, developing a unique multidimensional, trans-disciplinary, holistic approach. How is our voice and our  story interrelated with our voice? How can we learn to own it and transform it into empowerment and create authentic expression and connection as artist and humans? The exposition is planned to published in 2022 and executed and performed from 2022 on. The Album „A Labour of Love“ will be released in late 2022.ting concepts and the potential of softness, and love as a choice from a holistic point of view.

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