[Cover photo credit to Sigga Ella]
Eivør calls her Nordic home in the remote Faroe Islands a “landscape of extremes.” In the North Atlantic Ocean just above Scotland and southeast of Iceland, the climate is “full of contrasts—very dark, heavy winters and bright summers.”
She grew up in a small village there, of about 400 people, and that environment has inspired Eivør’s music, as well as the Faroe Islands’ own Folk music traditions.
Eivør explains:
A very strong part of Faroese culture is singing together—anywhere people gather, there will be singing. When you listen to old Faroese traditional music, it’s sung acapella and takes you back to its Renaissance roots. It’s pure, expressive, and untamed.
Eivør has released 11 studio albums to date, crossing musical genres. Awarded with the Nordic Council Music Price in 2021, Eivør’s musical journey continues.
She has currently embarked on a new chapter that continues with her atmospheric new album, ENN, which arrives on June 14, 2024. The video for album track “Jarðartrá” is out now.
ENN builds on Eivør’s recent immersion into Production and beat-making, but began with a return to classical music. She and her partner, the classical composer Tróndur Bogason, had decamped to a tiny Faroe Islands mountain village of 50 people, called Tjørnuvík with no agenda but to “write freely” for a possible side project.
She says:
Slowly I realized: I shouldn’t think about this as a side project. This is where I am at right now creatively.
After independently releasing her music for many years, ENN marks Eivør’s debut for the Metal label Season of Mist.
Recorded with her touring band in the Faroe Islands, where she now lives again, splitting time between her homeland and Denmark, Eivør calls ENN..
…my most pleasurable and also most painful process. I felt that I was stepping into a place where I hadn’t been before, and that’s always scary because you don’t feel that you touch the ground. But it opens up your creativity and takes you to someplace new. It’s woven together all my experiences for the past 10 years, and it’s grounded me.
