The Faroese folk singer/songwriter EIVOR releases her second studio album within a year. "Slor" is a collection of newly composed songs, which EIVOR sang in her native language - Faroese.
The album is the successor of the English-language album ,Bridges". And even though these are two different albums in different languages, there is a connection between the two records. Where "Bridges" was light and above all yearning, "Slor" sounds more raw and reflective. "Bridges" was inspired by friendship, love and homesickness.
It deals with the bridges between us, relationships between people, places and also things that touch us. "Slor", on the other hand, is about wanderlust, separation and the search for peace. A veil can be a symbol of a border between the present and the past, but a bridal veil, on the other hand, represents happiness and devotion above all.
EIVOR explains the process of the sibling albums: ,"When I wrote the songs, the songwriting was first done in English and right after that it came into my head in Faroese - like a kind of mirror image." Thus, it is not only two separate works, but also a composite moment in the song process.
Eivor, born in the Faroe Islands in 1983, is a vocalist, instrumentalist and songwriter with a voice of rare beauty and power.
From the age of fifteen she decided to dedicate her life entirely to music, and her roots in these remote and astonishingly beautiful islands have been the source of her musical inspiration ever since.
While this powerful love of Faroese culture remains at the heart of her work, it has been widened through profound contact with other North Atlantic traditions - she spent some time in Iceland and was named Icelandic Female Singer of the Year in 2003.
She is equally at home as a solo singer, accompanying herself, or with her own band, performing a mixture of traditional songs and her own compositions, or collaborating with musicians from many different backgrounds.Eivor is now based in Denmark. Many of her songs are in Faroese, some are in Icelandic and the most recent tend to be in English.
Her music covers a wide musical and emotional range, with themes of love, loss, memory, freedom, nature.
She has a voice of extraordinary beauty and character, unique in its intimacy, its effortless virtuosity and range of colours, which is evident from her first recording at the age of 16, to her most recent, her eighth, released in 2012. And at the same time she is a riveting live performer with a vivacious and warm stage presence.
She has been described as "a pure Viking goddess", as having "an extraordinary presence", and producing music that is "painfully beautiful". Now at the peak of her powers, she is an acclaimed singer/composer with a worldwide dimension, yet (happily) she manages to remain true to the deep, proud and subtle culture of the Faroe Islands.