[Cover photo credit to Asia Werbel]

Danish artist Fie Eike has released debut album Water which explores “the existential wisdom of water.” In particular, the album explores the “existential and emotional wisdom of water for healing and transformation.”

Fie Eike has Norwegian roots but was born and raised in Denmark and her connections to the Nordic natural world “have instilled a deep spiritual connection to nature that serves as a distinct atmospheric backdrop of the album soundscape.”

The 12 track album consists of 7 songs, 3 instrumental compositions and 2 vocal works. The soundscape includes field recordings of water and the ocean from different locations across Denmark. 

Fie Eike says:

Water represents both movement and stillness. It is powerful and destructive, yet quiet and healing. It is life giving and revitalizing, yet restrictive, destructive and life-threatening at the same time. It is subtle, yet extreme, weak and fluid, yet powerful and agile, transparent and light, yet muddy and dark, infinite, yet limiting, reserved and hidden, yet curious and transformational, soft and caring, yet violently temperamental. The waves of the ocean are like a breath constantly shaping and changing its surroundings and the coastline, while instilling balance, peace and anchoring us in the present moment, while reminding us of the cyclical nature of life and our connectedness and dependency on nature and each other.

She says about healing and transformation:

We must allow ourselves to surrender and be able to hold space for darkness and our most challenging emotions in order to heal and transform. The movements on the surface of the ocean reflect what happens below, just like we as humans affect and impact our surroundings. The ocean teaches us that we cannot only insist on living on the surface nor in the depths alone. We must hold both darkness and light, and dare to really feel and inhabit our full range of emotions including the most difficult ones. Because when we expand our capacity for darkness, we also expand our capacity for light, love and joy. – In the end, there is no light without darkness, and no love without fear.

In support of her album release, Fie Eike is planning a series of “immersive concerts integrating experiences of music and nature, offering the listener a space for reflection and inner journey for example through combining music with walks in nature integrating video installations and tactile elements informed by nature.”