Eivør Pálsdóttir (Faroese singer-songwriter and actress). Don't forget to subscribe to my channel.

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
  • This is my conversation with Eivør Pálsdóttir. It took place in May 2024 from her home in Denmark.
    Eivør calls her Nordic home in the remote Faroe Islands a landscape of extremes. Sitting in the North Atlantic Ocean just above Scotland and southeast of Iceland, with a total population of about 50,000, the climate is “full of contrasts-very dark, heavy winters and bright summers.” Growing up in a small village there, of about 400 people, it’s those contrasts that have inspired Eivør’s music throughout her career, as well as the Faroe Islands’ intense and still-vibrant connection to its own folk music traditions. “A very strong part of Faroese culture is singing together-anywhere people gather, there will be singing,” Eivør explains. “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.”
    Often considered to be one of the most prolific and unique Nordic artists of her generation, Eivør has released 11 studio albums to date, crossing musical genres and always pushing the bounds of the expected. Awarded with the Nordic Council Music Price in 2021, Eivør’s musical journey continues to fascinate.
    By 16, Eivør released her debut solo collection of Faroese-sung folk-pop. One year later, she left home to study classical singing in Reykjavík, Iceland-soon winning two Icelandic Music Awards for her sophomore album. She spent the ensuing years living in Copenhagen and building a career playing folk festivals, but by 2010, Eivør was ready for a change. Her daring Larva album eschewed the folksiness of her previous work for experimentation and electronics. “I needed to free myself from boxes,” she said. It was the beginning of a new chapter that continues with her richly atmospheric new album, ENN.
    The process of ENN built 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. “Slowly I realized: I shouldn’t think about this as a side project,” Eivør said. “This is where I am at right now creatively.” The first track she worked on there became ENN’s melancholic closer, “Gaia,” which Eivør calls “a love hymn for the Earth” that reminded her of the Renaissance music she loved in her youth.
    On that trip, Eivør also wrote ENN’s opener, “Ein Klóta,” a song about “watching your world from afar” as it changes. “I felt I was making a concept album, in a sense, about the Earth, about our home, our planet. Then it developed into both nature but also human nature-both the outer and the inner landscape, and the struggles of the heart, the struggles between the Earth and humans.”
    In recent years, Eivør has composed extensively for film, television and games (The Last Kingdom, God of War) and the cinematic structures of those scores found their way in alongside the music’s propulsive beats, omnipresent rooting in Faroese folk, and the classical flourishes of her opera training. Some of the songs feel like vistas or panoramas moving unexpectedly.
    “After writing the first two more spacious tracks, the idea started to grow in my head of almost a space opera,” Eivør said. “I was like, what if this journey starts out in space, and you watch the Earth? And you’re so far away from everything that you ever knew? Where am I going? What is this adventure?” The result was a synthesis of her career to date-her curiosity about beat making and noisy expressiveness, combined with the purity of classical music and cinematic atmospheres-and that sonic biography plays out beautifully on ENN’s second track “Jardartra.” It begins with a lurching beat “almost like a heartbeat,” and Eivør wrote it from the Earth’s point of view, as if “Earth is calling on us in the midst of all our human greed and destruction and beckoning us to find our way back to her blue embrace.”
    Most of the lyrics, sung entirely in Faroese, were penned in collaboration with the Faroese poet Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs. Eivør calls the lyrics to the title track especially “hardcore.” The song is about war- “the wars that are going on in the world especially lately, but that have always been going on,” Eivør says, “and how to find a glimpse of light in this overwhelming darkness.” The guttural penultimate track, “Upp Úr Øskuni,” is a thrilling outlier mixing growling beatboxing with visceral throat singing (it’s certainly Eivør’s most metal moment). She considers “Upp Úr Øskuni” a beacon of female empowerment and solidarity.
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Комментарии • 5

  • @georgelynch6139
    @georgelynch6139 Месяц назад +2

    Fantastic humble human, see you in Goteberg in Oct

  • @andrearocci6436
    @andrearocci6436 2 месяца назад +6

    What a queen she is!

  • @stephenbarlow2493
    @stephenbarlow2493 2 месяца назад +3

    Thank you so much for this interview. I regard Eivor, as one of the greatest vocalists, I've heard in my life time. To hear her and you mention, Sigur Ros, Hans Zimmer, I think you said Lisa Gerrard, and Massive Attack, was a wow moment. Sigur Ros played such a big part in my life. 2 of my favourite other vocalists, are the great Elizabeth Fraser, who has of course sung with Massive Attack (the Cocteau Twins, were one of the greatest bands in history, so influential), and Lisa Gerrard, and Dead Can Dance. I would love to hear Eivor collaborate with Aurora. You have no idea how rare it is for me to concentrate long enough to hear a whole interview, as my concentration is none existent with really bad PTSD. Eivor helped me back into being able to enjoy music again, after I'd become dead inside.

  • @Dunkelheit_Schwarz
    @Dunkelheit_Schwarz 2 месяца назад +5

    I love Eivor and what she does. It's always great to get some insights into her background.

  • @ggoudey-photo
    @ggoudey-photo Месяц назад +1

    A bumblebee interviews Eivør in 2024. Her early albums are pretty cool. I like when she sings in Faroese.