Martin Hall and Thomas Li‘s elektronic spoken word-project Inkubation will be performed live in Copenhagen and Aalborg during the spring of 2022. At both events they will be collaborating with visual artist Motorsaw. The two dates are:

Saturday the 19^th of March at 20.00: Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center

Saturday the 2^nd of April at 21.00: Sankt Jakobs Kirken (Østerbro)

The release has received a fair amount of brillant reviews. Some of the highlights go like this:

GAFFA: ”An impressive spoken word box: At no point am I in any doubt about the authenticity. This is true, serious, necessary. Almost shockingly indisputable … Inkubation is a spoken word work that will stand the distance in every way.”
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Seismograf: ”The six tracks that make up the installation are some of the most relentlessly experimental stuff from Hall’s hand in many years … a remarkable piece of sound art and good poetry from the experienced shape-shifter.”

Bogbobler: “Each sentence is carefully considered, sullen, beautiful and apt … Inkubation is a meditative work of high caliber – a work that has to be experienced and not overlooked.”
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Kristeligt Dagblad: ”Cool Hotel Hall: The time spent with this collection of modes in electronica/spoken word form – which can only be heard on this beautiful box set – is well spent.” ( * * * * )

Bongorama: ”A lyrically brave and sonically important work made in collaboration with Thomas Li … a rare and wonderfully bitter combo.”

Inkubation is a new spoken word collaboration between Martin Hall and Thomas Li, a recording that merges poetry and electronic installation music. The title will be released the 10^th of September as a box set featuring a book, a double-LP and a cd in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. The title won’t be available on any music streaming services, but will be released both as an e- and audiobook.

Inkubation is released with support from Augustinus Fonden, Koda Kultur, MPO and Danish Arts Foundation.

You can read more about the box set here and order the release via the following link.

SS-Say’s internationally acclaimed track ”Care” has been chosen as the theme song for the American director Kerry Mondragon’s new film Tyger Tyger featuring Dylan Sprouse and Sam Quartin.

The release date for the movie is February 26, 2021.

During the recording of ”Care” the members of the indie band SS-Say were Inge Shannon, Martin Hall and Henrik Möll. The group made its debut at Williams S. Burroughs’ visit to Copenhagen in October 1983.

You can see the trailer for the film by clicking on the following link.

The latest Martin Hall album is A Brief Summary, a title that includes several new recordings – such as the video single ”Lesser Gods”. The album also contains remakes and alternative versions of material recorded during the last twenty years. It’s released as a double vinyl album, a digipack cd and as music cassette.

Quite surprisingly A Brief Summary went directly in as #2 on the official Danish vinyl hitlist the week after its release – Hall’s highest chart ranking ever.

In the Danish newspaper Information (the Danish equivalent to The Independent), the reviewer Sophia Handler praised the album in no uncertain terms:

“Once again Martin Hall proves that he belongs in the same category as music mythological heroes such as Brian Eno and David Bowie”.

As a prelude to his first live concerts for more than five years Hall released the new song Services Rendered as a limited edition 12” single. The record is also available on all major digital platforms (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc.).

GAFFA – Denmark’s biggest music magazine – awarded the following Copenhagen concert at Bremen Teater with a staggering 6 out of 6 stars rating. The music journalist Simon Heggum summons up the concert this way:

”A breathtaking concert experience – one of the strongest Danish concerts I’ve been to in recent years.”

Irma Victoria was born on the 2^nd of September 1923 and died on the 10^th of November 2000. She recorded and released a series of songs and records with Martin Hall, the career highlight being an official Grammy nomination in the category “female singer of the year” in 1991. The other two nominees that year were multi-platinum act Hanne Boel and legendary The Savage Rose singer Annisette.

To commemorate Irma Victoria we bring you one of her lighter songs, “September Song”, taken from the 1994 album Phantasmagoria. The track also appears on the compilation record Memorial – Finest Moments and Famous Last Words released posthumously in 2001 and on the Spotify album September Songs.

“Her work was fantastic. May her soul live forever.” (Douglas P., Death in June)

In October 2017 the book and double-LP box set Hall Cronhammar Index was made available in a limited edition of 491 numbered and signed copies. The release contains two vinyl records with a total playing time of more than one and a half hour of music as well as a 48-page book in LP format featuring extensive photo material and an essay documenting the artists’ longstanding cooperation.

The records and book comes in a hardback canvas frame placed in a separate box that also contains a set of Ingvar Cronhammar’s newly designed “Hansha” metal cutlery with the artists’ names engraved (the cutlery is not available on the retail market and can only be purchased as part of the box set).

The reviews of Martin Hall’s new book 1971-1985 have been very positive. Apart from topping the list of this year’s best autobiographies on DR’s literary review as #1, a short resumé goes like this:

Politiken: “Martin Hall writes unadorned, beautifully, often wise and most of the time relievingly funny about his youth and early days.” ( * * * * )
Berlingske: “Hall is brilliant in his depiction of a rampant Copenhagen in the seventies … a sharp and observant snapshot of a city that no longer exists.” ( * * * * )
GAFFA: ”Incredibly sharp … Martin Hall’s ability to reflect and convey his understanding is admirable.” ( * * * * )
DR: “Best autobiography of the year.”
Weekendavisen: “Martin Hall has style, and with this book he manages to come close to the substance and the pain in the depiction of his early career’s harsh downside with suicides, drugs and chronic restlessness.”