Eivør

So says Eivør – vocalist, instrumentalist and songwriter with a voice of rare beauty and power – when asked about where she gets her inspiration. These aren’t just words as she has relentlessly pursued music ever since dedicating her life to it at the tender age of fifteen.

Born in 1983 in the Faroe Islands, Eivør’s early musical forays were steeped in Faroese musical traditions. At the age of sixteen she released her self-titled debut album bearing the marks of this fruitful starting point. While an enduring love of Faroese culture remains at the heart of her work, its expression has been widened through profound interaction with other traditions.

Eivør’s musical palette has broadened since her folk beginnings as her albums and performances variably have included jazz, country folk, big band stylings, classical influences, and trip hop tinted rock. As of late, she has consolidated these experimental inputs into her own style of folktronica with heartfelt lyrical observations of life as it unfolds.

Eivør is now based in Denmark. Her music covers a wide musical and emotional range. She remains a voice unique in its intimacy, its effortless virtuosity and range of colours, evident from her first recording all the way through to her tenth album Slør from 2015. The english version of Slør was released in May 2017. The release sees Eivør entering the UK market performing on BBC’s Jools Holland and a sold out UK tour in June with a follow-up tour later in 2017. As always, she is a riveting live performer with a vivacious and warm stage presence.

Her career has thus far been a testament to the fact that there is indeed music in every situation. Yet it takes a skilled artist to be able to grasp and express this music and Eivør is such an artist; an acclaimed vocalist/composer at the peak of her powers.

Members:

Eivør Pálsdóttir

Høgni Lisberg

Mikael Blak

Hallur Jonson

Eivør - Discography

Slør (English Version) 82017)

Slør (2015)

Bridges (2015)

Room (2012)

Larva (2010)

EP

Live (2009)

Mannabarn (2007)

Eivør (2004)

Krákan (2003)

Eivør Pálsdóttir (2000)

Half a Mile

Half a Mile is a composition of six passionate musicians from Zwolle and surroundings. The sisters Hanna and Susanne van Gemeren have been singing twice since their younger years. The band has a penetrating, honest message and passionately shares the search for meaning and the Creator in this chaotic existence. The country / folk, Celtic and Eastern influences in combination with the bands of love for acoustic music provide a unique and authentic musical style.

MEMBERS:

Hanna van Gemeren - Zangeres

Susanne van Gemeren - Zangeres

Aart Lameris - Gitarist

Wouter Raidt - Gitarist

Laurens Lameris - Bassist

Richard Jansen - Percussionist

Half a Mile - Roots

01. Taller

02. You Lead Me

03. Perfect Little Garden

04. Uprooted

05. Thou and Thine

06. Silence

07. Nothing

08. Sacris Solemnis

09. I Sing the Mighty Power

10. The Fall

11. From This Valley

12. Smaller

Folk Noir

The name Folk Noir invokes a collection of images coming from an Era of the past. A time of poets and writers, inspirations from the Occult and new views on the World we live in. A world with dark bohemian magic and various Arts. Folk Noir, the band collects these images and blends them into a new kind of dark folk music.

Folk Noir performs music with the use of (English) multi layered vocals, various medieval folk instruments, aswell as modern influences.

With their self written lyrics in English and translucent storylines Folk Noir brings a new dimension to alternative music, in which they evoke a darker kind of folk...

Folk Noir started out as a two person project between Oliver s.Tyr of FAUN and Kaat Geevers of L.E.A.F.

In 2012 Stephan Groth (FAUN) and Alex Schulz have joined this project to grow into a full-four-member band.

Meanwhile in 2013 they have developed into a respectable liveband which combines fragility with a powerful festivalshow.

In the end of 2014 they had a lineup change. Co-founder Kaat Geevers will now more focus on her band L.E.A.F. and Livy Pear joined the band. She enriches Folk Noir with her amazing voice and is going to play additional guitar and piano.

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FOLK NOIR - A darker kind of folk

Es erklingen duestere Balladen, die sich von filigranen Folksongs bis zu modernem Postrock steigern.

Mit Oliver s. Tyr und Stephan Groth von der international erfolgreichen Band "FAUN", der bezaubernden Ausnahmestimme von Livy Pear und Alexander Schulz am Schlagzeug gelingt es FOLK NOIR, 

folkige Klaenge in einer mitreissenden Kraft und Intensitaet erklingen zu lassen.

Mumford & Sons treffen auf Drehleier und Laute, die zwielichtige Stimmung eines Tim Burton Films wird musikalisch auf die Buehnen des 21. Jahrhunderts getragen.

Line-up:

Oliver s.Tyr: vocals, guitar, lute

Livy Pear: vocals, guitar, piano

Stephan Groth: vocals, hurdy-gurdy, piano, flute

Alex Schulz: drums

FolkNoir - songs from home nr. 1

Tracklist:

1.Dear Misery

2.The songs in mariees hands

3.You Should Have Seen Me There

4.The ragged wood

5.She moves through the fair

6.The Road