WATCH! Wardruna go to Hobgoblin folks music instrument store
Prime purveyors of roots music, Wardruna have made an artwork from previous Scandanavian sounds courting again to the viking interval. Their atmospheric music and gorgeous stay gigs have seen them on the forefront of this now common world and nonetheless very a lot the go to band for anybody on this music and tradition.
Again in December 2024 and earlier than the discharge of their sixth album, Birna (twenty fourth January through Music for Nations/Sony) Einar Selvik from Wardruna paid a go to to London’s Hobgoblin music store to discover their uncommon acoustic and folks devices from world wide. It was an incredible alternative for Einar to share his data about conventional devices and delve into Wardruna’s musical course of.
Wardruna have not too long ago completed their UK and Eire tour in help of the brand new album, our author Andrew Pountney caught the present on the Barbican in York (take a look at his stay assessment and footage right here). The band continues their world tour and can return to the UK in August for Arctangent Competition – full record of dates right here: https://www.wardruna.com/tour-dates/
Concerning the new album, Birna – the she-bear in Previous Norse – is a murals devoted to the warden of the forest, nature’s caretaker, and her battles right here on earth. Slowly pushed out of her habitat by modern-day societies, she has entered a stage of everlasting hibernation. Because of this, the forest is progressively dying, eager for its pulse and coronary heart – it’s shepherd. Birna requires her return.
Birna nurtures the perception that has been on the core of Selvik’s philosophy proper from the beginning: sowing new seeds while strengthening previous roots. Devices and knowledge from historical instances, coupled with modern-day soundscapes and recorded sounds of nature, present a uncommon alternative to inform us one thing beneficial about ourselves. It really works as a reminder that we’re a part of nature, not above it, and it presents a manner of remembering, not for reminiscence’s personal sake, however to realize each new and forgotten insights.
Together with the brand new album comes a recorded present of Wardruna’s distinctive equinox efficiency on the world heritage web site Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis, Athens. Spanning over two hours, the present featured excellent stay performances of songs from the group’s discography, equivalent to Helvegen, Kvitravn, Heimta Thurs and Lyfjaberg (that characteristic on the brand new album Birna).
The brand new album and the DVD/Blu-ray can be found for ordering right here.
picture by Morten Munthe
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