Impressions from the Faroe Islands

I’m back in Denmark after spending the last week on the Faroe Islands working with Klingra. I love being there - the mood, the nature, the people - and I often catch myself thinking that it feels a bit like a second home. It was also a pretty intense week and it’s good to be home and back in my daily routines.

We had three shows scheduled and worked a lot on those. Rehearsing, working on the production, visuals and diving deep into the details and really took the show a step further. The last show in Gøta was filmed and if it turns out ok, we’ll be sharing some footage from there.

Wednesday morning Dánjal and myself were in the morning radio talking about the upcoming album (to be released in March 2023) and exclusively played a couple of tracks from there. One of them featuring a recording of Dánjal’s grandfather talking about an accident out of the coast of Greenland that happened about 60 years ago, when he was working at the “Faroese harbour” there. 14 men froze to death or drowned. Hearing these memories from him, 92 years old, is very touching and we got a lot of feedback from people who had been there themselves or otherwise had something to share from that time. A lot of Faroese fishermen were working there back then and the music and story really seemed to resonate with them this many years later. The next morning Dánjal and I went to a house where (mostly) the men from the village of Miðvagur meet up each morning to sit and sort of the world situation and drink coffee. We’re both really interested in hearing first hand stories of how it was and felt to be there. How the daily life was, what food they ate and so on. We came unannounced and after the first “wild-west-stranger-coming-into-the-saloon-moment” we had a very interesting and touching talk with these 13 men. We’re brewing on a few ideas to bring some of these impressions to life.

With all this still in the body - the concerts, interviews and feedback - it feels even more exciting to soon have the pleasure to start releasing the music and first singles in about a month.

Below is a short (very hand-held) video from the rehearsals before the first show. This is the track Litirnir: