Video: Eivør Interview Clip - TDVIJF 2012

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Eivør Pálsdóttir í Popplandi

On June 20th, Eivør Pálsdóttir was interviewed and performed a new song of hers entitled "Rain" on an Icelandic Radio Program. She talked about her new album to being released in Autumn this very year, her North American Tour in The USA and Canada along with Mikael Blak, her expectations on her concert with Yggdrasil in Iceland and you can also listen to Undo Your Mind (studio version) in the end of it. It's a very interesting interview in Icelandic (unfortunately there are no subtitles for it). You can listen to the entire interview by clicking HERE.

Via: RUV.IS

Eclectic Eivør brings Faroe Islands culture to everything she does

By Alexander Varty, June 21, 2012

She’s unconstrained by stylistic boundaries, sings with crystalline purity, enjoys creative collaborations with performers from around the globe, and hails from a windswept island in the middle of the icy North Atlantic—but her name is not Björk.


Instead, we’re talking about Eivør Pálsdóttir, a musician who’s just on the cusp of being discovered in North America.

As with her Icelandic counterpart, it’s difficult and probably pointless to put a single label on what it is that she does. She’s a country-and-western troubadour who beats a shamanic drum. She’s an operatic soprano who has her own rock band, Clickhaze. She’s worked with beat-driven electronic musicians, and at her TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival appearance she’ll guest with the folk-jazz quintet Yggdrasil before performing a set of her own tunes. No matter what the context, though, she’s always strongly grounded in the music and the landscape of her homeland, the Faroe Islands.

“In the Faroes, the culture of singing is very strong, and people sing a lot,” she explains from Copenhagen. “When the fishermen go out to catch the fish, for instance, they have a song they sing on the way out. There are many songs for different occasions, and I think just automatically nature weaves into the sound of the music.”

Unsurprisingly, the artist known simply as Eivør feels a great affinity for the fiords and islands of Canada’s West Coast, and we’re probably going to be seeing more of her in future. Upcoming in 2013 is her starring role in part-time Victoria resident Gavin Bryars’s chamber opera Anyone can see I love you, based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. And this fall will see the release of her eighth solo effort, Room, which includes four songs cowritten with Bryars’s librettist, Vancouver Island poet Marilyn Bowering.

“I started writing the music when I was so unfortunate to lose my dear father, two years ago now,” the 28-year-old singer explains. “Most of the songs are about this empty room that you feel inside when something precious disappears from your life.

“I feel like I’ve found something very special, but I guess everybody says that,” she adds more cheerfully. “But in this record I really feel that I connected with something. My last record was more of a rock record, while my previous records have been closer to folk music. But this record is a link between my traditional folk stuff and my last album, and I think it’s a very important record to me.”


Via: STRAIGHT.COM

Video: Eivør Interview (with English subtitles)

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Video: Eivør í Mælt

Interview: Scan Magazine

Eivør has been interviewed for the Scan Magazine, a unique English-language showcase for Brand Scandinavia and appeals to all those who have a relationship with or a connection to Scandinavia – be it through family, business, tourism, migration or investment.

Scan Magazine is distributed through a number of Scandinavian hotspots in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, The United States and Scandinavian countries.

You can read the edition featuring Eivør by clicking HERE.

For further information on Scan Magazine, please visit SCANMAGAZINE.CO.UK

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Video: Eivør Interview

Eivor Interview from Heidur Maria on Vimeo.

Video: Eivør at SFO - Del 1

This video features an interview with Eivør on Norwegian TV broadcasted on November 26th at SFO - del 1, some live footage with Vamp and KORK and an introduction on Eivør's new album Larva wich was released on November 15th in Norway. Check it out!

Via: SEBYEN.NO

Video: Intervju med Øyvind Staveland og Eivør Pálsdóttir

Eivør på haugesundsk, Radio 102

Interview with Eivør on November 23th at Radio 102, Norway:

Click HERE.