MayWay records news - Meltheads nieuwe single ‘En Toen Was Er Niets Meer’

Twee jaar na het uitstekend onthaalde debuutalbum Decent Sex — dat zowel in binnen- als buitenland (BBC Radio 1, KEXP, Clash Magazine) lof oogstte — keren Meltheads terug naar het Nederlands met een eerbetoon aan de Belpop-klassieker ‘En Toen Was Er Niets Meer’ van De Brassers, de Limburgse coldwavepioniers voor wie frontman Sietse Willems al eerder zijn liefde uitsprak. De song is te horen in de eindcredits van Dust, de nieuwe film van Anke Blondé, die zondag in première ging op het Filmfestival van Berlijn en er meedingt naar de Gouden Beer.
En Toen Was Er Niets Meer - Album van Meltheads

Sietse Willems: “Scenarist Angelo Tijssens klopte eind december bij de juiste band aan, want wij kennen dat nummer door en door – en we zaten in die periode toch al in de studio. Het is een trouwe versie geworden, met een sound die aanleunt bij onze eigen ‘Naïef’. De kracht van het nummer zit’ m in de simpelheid, met slechts een handvol elementen zetten De Brassers een beklemmend, mistroostig gevoel neer. Onze versie klinkt wel moderner, en ze hebben al laten weten dat hun erfenis in goede handen is.”

Nog voor de zomer mogen we overigens nog meer nieuw werk verwachten, en ook dat zal in het Nederlands zijn. Sietse daarover: “We werken momenteel aan onze tweede plaat en die is van het eerste tot het laatste woord in de taal van Spinvis, Luc De Vos en – guilty pleasure! – Clouseau. Het Nederlands inspireert mij weer. Maar verwacht nu niet een dozijn variaties op "Naiëf". We gebruiken instrumenten waarvan ik dacht dat we ze nooit in de hand zouden nemen, zoals drumcomputers en akoestische gitaren.”

Meltheads is
Sietse Willems (vocals, guitars), Yunas De Proost (guitars),Tim Pensaert (bas) Simon de Geus (drums)
www.maywayrecords.com

Even voorstellen – Compro Oro – Foyerconcert, O.C. De Kleine Beer, Beernem
COMPRO ORO
DATUM: maandag 23 februari - 20 uur
LOCATIE: O.C. De Kleine Beer

ORGANISATIE: O.C. DE KLEINE BEER I.S.M. DAVIDSFONDS BEERNEM

Compro Oro reist al meer dan tien jaar de wereld rond met hun unieke mix van jazz en psychedelica. Het Gentse collectief laat zich steevast inspireren door global sounds uit alle windstreken. Eerdere albums brachten hen onder andere naar Havana, Mogadishu en Istanbul. Hun muziek is broeierig en kleurrijk, met een hoofdrol voor marimba, vibrafoon en vurige gitaren. De ritmesectie — bas, drums en exotische percussie — zorgt voor een unieke, steeds variërende groove.

Onlangs rondde de band hun vijfde album af, dit keer geïnspireerd door Kinshasa. Ze werkten daarvoor samen met Bouton Kalanda, Congolese likembé-speler, zanger en danser. Kalanda is bekend van producties van Alain Platel en Fabrizio Cassol. Hij voegde zijn warme likembé-klanken en zang in Lingala toe aan de muziek van Compro Oro. Het resultaat klinkt als Konono N°1 in een jazzy jasje, met de herkenbare sound van de band als rode draad.

Meer events O.C. De Kleine Beer, Beernem

Even voorstellen - Alan Sparhawk Releases Striking, Timely New Songs:
“JCMF” and “No More Darkness”

“JCMF” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJKipe5c74
“No More Darkness” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSesvXiav9Y

LIVE Wed. May 06 - Kortrijk, BE Wilde Westen
Alan Sparhawk is releasing two enthralling new songs, “JCMF” and “No More Darkness.” Both tracks were written, composed, and produced at 20 Below Studio in Duluth, MN, with Nat Harvie mixing. They feature Sparhawk on Guitar/Vocals, Eric Pollard on Drums and Sparhawk’s son, Cyrus Sparhawk, on Bass.
Sparhawk shares about both singles:
“JCMF”: This is a song I’ve had for a few years, but couldn’t find the right way to play or record it. We started playing it last year in the Alan Sparhawk Solo Band, on tour, and with each month, the sentiment of the song only increased. I feel like the song has become a rebuke against the fascist/authoritarian streak that several world leaders have taken on and to the people who have been blinded into supporting them.
“No More Darkness”: Inspired by a David Lynch quote (“Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up the light of pure consciousness. Negativity goes.”) This song reminds me to choose light in especially dark times. We were ending our set with this tune all year, and it is my wish for everyone, especially those who feel alone.

Sparhawk will be donating a portion of his royalties from these songs to the International Institute of Minnesota.

Even voorstellen - The Bug Club Is Back With Their First New Album in…Eleven Months!, ‘Every Single Muscle’

Friday, May 29th, 2026 Worldwide From Sub Pop
End march 26 New Single “Yours (If You Want Me)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPwNuyRw5k
Febr 26 “Watching the Omnibus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8wXBiNsRcg

Caldicot, Monmouthshire, Wales’ finest, The Bug Club, will release Every Single Muscle, their incredible new album on CD/LP/all DSPs worldwide on Friday, May 29th, from Sub Pop. The 18-track longplayer features today’s first single, “Watching the Omnibus,” along with approximately 17 other tight, anxious, and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Yours (If You Want Me),” “A Good Day for Dying,” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.

More on The Bug Club’s Every Single Muscle:
The Bug Club are back with a new album. It’s been a whole eleven months since their last. Where have they been?
Every Single Muscle, the band’s fifth LP, arrives May 29th, 2026 via Sub Pop, making it a hat-trick for the Welsh duo and their esteemed Seattle-based patrons. Since Very Human Features, which emerged in June of 2025, the non-stop tour has seen the BBC 6 Music and KEXP favourites ping-pong across the Atlantic like they used to the Severn Bridge. Various festival slots in the summer kept them from having any sort of holiday - who needs one when you live in Wales anyway? - until it was time to head back to the writing room.

So that answers that first question. Not that you’d have otherwise known. Ever self-effacing, songwriters Sam (guitar, vocals) and Tilly (bass, vocals) go as far as to claim that they’ve been sitting around “doing nothing at all” during track “It’s Our Manager David.” That’s clearly a lie. Every Single Muscle gets off to a full-throttle, chugging start with “Miss Wales 2012,” referencing a competition both Tilly and Sam have actually won. Dead serious. It’s the first of many sub-two-minute tracks on the album, setting the tone for The Bug Club’s punkiest offering yet and recalling both the short, sharp snaps of their very first singles and the grunt of recent releases. So packed is the album with wall-to-wall riffs and lyrical hooks rammed into tight confines that Sam actually asks permission to squeeze in a solo during second track “A Good Day for Dying.” He’s given two seconds.

Not that we’re short-changed, though, because Sam asks again later on and is granted more. Across eighteen tunes there’s enough classic Sam/Tilly guitar interplay to satisfy even the most vociferous Bug Club club member and firmly refute the band’s own claim that they are only “just about technically proficient on our instruments.” “Full Range of Motion” has a choppy rhythm that sits atop drummer Tom’s tight beat and serves to remind us all of Minutemen, for a minute. “Make It Count” brings sweet melody and call and response, while “All My Clothes Fell Off” allows for a slower paced ballad that builds to a crescendo that would not be out of place in the world of classic rock. “Cut to Black” combines a Sparks-esque falsetto and Tilly’s melodic bass playing with a rhythm something close-ish to what Klaus Dinger used to do for Neu! And closer “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat” sees them doing a bit of a left turn and swapping out guitars for keys. This record’s an exercise in efficient maximalism - the musical equivalent of your dad packing the car for a holiday. Bring what you like; space is tight but they’ll get it in there somehow.

On to the words, because with these guys those are important. While Very Human Features did an excellent job of pointing at everyday things and highlighting their absurdity, on Every Single MuscleThe Bug Club look more closely at themselves. Not so much in an introspective way, though. More in a way an alien might probe a captive specimen on an intergalactic gurney. Horror movies get their “body” subgenre, now garage rock albums get theirs too. Self-interested in an entirely new sense of the term, the human form and condition is prodded and inspected from every angle throughout the course of the album. “Look Like Me” sees them singing about their own appearance, while on “How Can We Be Friends” they are preoccupied with others’. “Every Single Muscle” itemises organs as if they belong on a shopping list, and both “Make It Count” and “Pretty as a Magazine” bemoan the fact people don’t know what to do with their own bodies. Altogether, we get a sense of surreal detachment from the self that sets up the ever-present ennui-laden humour; the last song sees Sam announce he’s “bored of being human.” The Bug Club seem almost suspicious of the concept of being a person - as if they’ve woken up in a costume they didn’t want to put on and cannot take off.

Initially comprising the songwriting core of Sam Willmett (vocals/guitar) and Tilly Harris (vocals/bass) with Dan Matthew (drums), The Bug Club started plying their trade in 2016. They were signed by UK label Bingo Records in Autumn 2020 and first single “We Don’t Need Room for Lovin” was released in February 2021, followed by EP Launching Moondream One. It quickly established The Bug Club as the tongue-in-cheek and live-focused antidote to the previous year’s penned-in pandemic drudgery. BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley was an early champion.

Pure Particles followed, whose vinyl release included a board game brimming with cult references. Fed up with the conventional approach they then released “Intelectuals”: a standalone track that was actually a five-track “song suite” like some kind of streaming-model-snubbing, Telecaster-bashing answer to Bach. Highbrow musos took a lyrical beating for the ages. Second standalone release “Two Beauties” marked release number two for 2022 and built up to the appearance of debut album Green Dream in F# by October. The following January they decided to pull their fingers out, get some disguises and support themselves on tour as Mr Anyway’s Holey Spirits. A live album documented this, then they got abstract with titles and put out the picture disc Picture This! By the autumn of 2023 it was time for forty-seven track, poetry-infused double album Rare Birds: Hour of Song.

During a trip to America they caught the eye of Sub Pop, just in time to get them on board to serve up a beefy slab of garage-punk on On the Inner Workings of the System, gaining an appropriately beefed-up stateside following in the process. The partnership proved fruitful, and with Sup Pop firmly in The Bug Club club they got cracking on Very Human Features. Is three the magic number? Probably not. But Every Single Muscle - number three for The Bug Club and Sub Pop - certainly comes close enough to convince your average strange human person that it might be

The Bug Club
Every Single Muscle

Tracklisting:

1. Miss Wales 2012
2. A Good Day for Dying
3. Make It Count
4. Cut to Black
5. Full Range of Motion
6. Pretty as a Magazine
7. Look Like Me
8. How Can We Be Friends
9. Every Single Muscle
10. Shiny and Wet
11. Semi-Automatic
12. In My Short Life
13. Watching the Omnibus
14. It’s Our Manager David
15. Yours (If You Want Me)
16. All My Clothes Fell Off
17. Third Best Friend
18. My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat

Sony music latest news 

Milow – My Lucky Day
Milow zet met ‘My Lucky Day’ zijn traditie van hoopvolle, zonovergoten songs verder.
Het nummer werd afgelopen zomer opgenomen in Stockholm tijdens een hittegolf en weet het gevoel te vatten van het vinden van die ene persoon voor jou.
My Lucky Day - song and lyrics by Milow | Spotify

Mari Froes - Colombina
‘Colombina’ is de perfecte mix tussen de warme, onmiskenbare stem van Mari Froes, moderne Braziliaanse invloeden en de stuwende energie van samba.
De track creëert zo een tijdloos carnavalsanthem.
Na meer dan 100 miljoen streams, internationaal hitparadesucces en meerdere awards voor ‘Vaitimbora’, zet Mari haar wereldwijde opmars voort met een track die de perfecte knipoog is naar haar Brazilië.
Colombina - Single by Mari Froes | Spotify

Meghan Trainor - Get In Girl
Meghan Trainor kondigt haar zevende album ‘Toy With Me’ aan, dat op 24 april verschijnt, samen met ‘The Get In Girl Tour’ die in juni 2026 start.
Naast de nieuwe single ‘Get In Girl’ geeft ze ook fans ter introductie alvast de energieke song ‘Still Don’t Care’, die de toon zet voor een nieuwe periode vol zelfvertrouwen, eerlijkheid en speelse pop.
Het album volgt op het succesvolle 'Timeless' (2024), waarmee ze haar grootste tour tot nu toe speelde en de ‘Hitmaker Award’ ontving bij Billboard Women in Music.
Get In Girl - song and lyrics by Meghan Trainor | Spotify

Vinyl
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
De Amerikaan Boz Scaggs werd bekend als zanger, gitarist en songwriter met meerdere top 20 hits in de jaren ’70.
In 1976 werkte hij voor zijn album ‘Silk Degrees’ samen met de muzikanten die later Toto zouden gaan vormen.
‘Silk Degrees’ werd een enorm succes en stond niet minder dan 115 weken in de Billboard top 200. De tracks ‘Lowdown’ en ‘Lido Shuffle’ scoorden als single maar vooral ‘What Can I Say’ werd een superhit.
Het album verschijnt vandaag als een 50th anniversary versie op 1.000 genummerde exemplaren op groen vinyl.

www.sonymusic.com

Labelman news – Camille Camille - About “In a Song”

With “In a Song”, Camille Camille delivers her most dynamic track yet. Ambitious guitar picking and medievalesque vocals are joined by intricate harmonies and triumphant flutes. The song, evoking psychedelic folk tones, is served on a gritty percussive loop, transporting us through a dusty landscape of intimacy and uncertainty.

“In a Song” is the first single of her second album and opens a wider musical realm, drawing comparisons to Jessica Pratt, Josephine Foster and Robbie Basho.

lab-music.lnk.to/InaSong 

Some words from Camille
“The seed for In a Song started sprouting in the spring of 2023 as I navigated life in Amsterdam, moving between our sailboat home, subrents along the canals, and the boatyard.
I was stuck with only a guitar line for an unusually long time until I finally found melody and words that could do it justice. That was quite new for me compared to my usual creating process. Very quickly, I found myself tapping my feet on the ground in a train-like percussion every time I played the tune. That loop felt evident from the start and became an underlying blanket throughout the track.
I recorded the skeleton of the song in my temporary home in Ghent and finished it in the spring of 2025 with the help of sound engineer and buddy Michiel Renson.
The video came together organically with my life and creative partner Vincent Leroi. It was just us, a small digital camera and the dry landscapes of the Canary Islands during our meanderings with our dear floating home, Saga, last winter.
In a Song is an ode to doubt, intimacy, the longing for answers, and the beginning of a new chapter!”

Camille Camille is the musical project of Belgian singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Camille Willemart. Known for her intimate songwriting and delicate, atmospheric sound, Camille Camille creates music that lives in the space between vulnerability and quiet strength. Influenced by the folk tradition, her work feels deeply personal, often exploring themes of observation, connection, inner reflection and the natural world. Drawing comparisons to artists such as Josephine Foster and Robbie Basho, her songs are built around gentle guitar picking arrangements, subtle melodies, and a distinctive, enchanting voice.
She released her debut album Could You Lend Me Your Eyes in 2021, establishing her as a promising voice in the Belgian music scene. The album was praised for its understated beauty and contemplative tone, as well as for Camille’s ability to weave together hope and melancholy. Following the album’s release, she joined King Hannah, Widowspeak, and Kurt Vile on tour across Europe and the UK, bringing her intimate music to international audiences.
She later collaborated with long-time friend Sam De Nef on the EP Waving, released in 2023.
Through her live performances and recordings, she fosters an aura of closeness and sincerity, guiding listeners into a quiet world where emotions resonate. Her work is anchored in restraint, warmth, and authenticity.

Starman records news - The Me In You - Nieuwe single, "Sturmfrei"

(20/2/26)
Album "Ida Fisher Is Niemand" uit op 27/3/26

https://open.spotify.com/album/6cn3nveY1lxCSAStyRgkmL?si=fuiiMVqvRC2X7QTmLIBhmg

Als de kat van huis is, dansen de muizen op tafel. Waar wij een uitdrukking voor gebruiken, hebben de Duitsers genoeg aan één woord: Sturmfrei. Het woord staat voor de ultieme vrijheid om te doen en laten wat je wil, wanneer je ouders of huisgenoten een weekend weg zijn. Sturmfrei is de vooruitgeschoven single van “Ida Fischer is niemand”  het nieuwe album  van The Me In You dat verschijnt op  27 maart, gevolgd door een tour.

Centraal op de plaat staat Ida Fischer, een Duitse vrouw die beslist heeft om een zijsprong te maken en de maatschappij in haar huidige vorm te verlaten. Ze heeft geen nood aan de labels die in onze samenleving blijkbaar noodzakelijk zijn. In Sturmfrei blikt ze nostalgisch terug op haar onbezorgde puberteit waarin ze ongedwongen kon zijn wat ze toen nog was: iemand.

Live (More TBC)
23/04/26 Café Cafe - Hasselt 
30/04/26 Hnita Jazz Club - Heist-op-den-Berg
21/05/26 Het Depot - Leuven  

www.starmanrecords.com

Even voorstellen – Glen Hansard – transmissions east (vol 1)

Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West
22-song career retrospective across two volumes featuring live reinterpretations of some of his most cherished songs recorded live at Berlin’s historic Funkhaus.
Transmissions East (Vol. 1) out 24th April on Plateau/Secretly Distribution.
Transmissions West (Vol. 2) to follow later in the year.

April 26 “wreckless heart” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QASMbZSs-II
March 26 “down on our knees” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMwnH6do3iw
“my little ruin” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN47yDn2rlo

Febr 26 Watch the live performance video for ‘Didn’t He Ramble’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82U9CCjlcJA

LIVE 16.05.26 - De Roma – ANTWERP

Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West is an expansive collection featuring live reinterpretations of some of his most loved and cherished songs from across his solo career, as well as his work as the the frontman of The Frames and half of the Oscar winning duo The Swell Season.

Friday 24th April 2026 will see 10 of these tracks released first as Transmissions East (Vol. 1).

Hansard and his band recorded the album over two nights in April 2025 in front of a dedicated audience at Berlin’s historic Funkhaus–an expansive former East German radio facility–and in many ways, it encapsulates multiple things at once: a career retrospective opus, a ‘Best Of’ collection, a live record, and a new studio album.

The inspiration for Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West came from a memorable rain-soaked outdoor performance at Zuiderparktheater in The Hague in summer 2024, when Hansard invited audience members onstage during a storm, creating an impromptu communal experience that would help to shape the record’s concept. Transmissions East  (Vol. 1) is the first release in a two-volume set with the 2nd, Transmissions West (Vol. 2), appearing later this year.

Both volumes feature no vocal overdubs, second takes, autotune, or editing–brilliantly showcasing the breadth of Hansard’s talents and songwriting. In all, Don+t Settle - Transmissions East & West feels like an important demarcation point in an already storied career, with Hansard looking backwards within his creative path while he moves forward–‘transmissions’ both from his past and to his future.

Hansard today shared his new version of “Didn’t He Ramble” from Vol. 1 about which he explained:“Our local bar was The Ramble Inn. My father spent most of his waking and sometimes sleeping hours in there…he’d ramble in and stumble out. I wrote this song after he passed at the fair young age of 62. The kind of tribute song he would have approved of. My father was a proud man. Loved his family and his drink in equal measure. My father showed his love shoulder to shoulder, not face to face. He drove The Frames amps and instruments around for years. Rarely staying for the show. But always there to load out the gear with the band afterwards. I loved him very much and wanted to write him a tribute song he’d enjoy. I raise my voice, and a glass to Jemo Hansard.”

The track listing of the Vol. 1 is as follows:
Don’t Settle

Down On Our Knees

Back Broke

My Little Ruin

Didn’t He Ramble

Fitzcarraldo

Carrickfergus

Lonely Deserter

The Feast Of St John

Wreckless Heart

A founding member of The Frames, Hansard first gained international attention through Alan Parker’s 1991 film The Commitments and a subsequent film, Once (2007), made on a modest budget, became a global success and grossed $23 million worldwide.
Co-starring Markéta Irglová,  the pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘Falling Slowly’ and later recorded and toured as The Swell Season.
Since launching his solo career with 2012’s Rhythm and Repose, Hansard has released four further studio albums: Didn’t He Ramble (2015), Between Two Shores (2018), This Wild Willing (2019), and All That Was East Is West of Me Now (2023).
Over the years, he has collaborated with and earned praise from artists including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell. Now 55, Hansard describes Transmissions East as a document of energy and connection, capturing the spirit of his live performances at an important moment in his musical journey.

Wardruna releaseparty in maart 2026, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht

WARDRUNA RELEASEPARTY OP WOENSDAGAVOND 11 MAART IN TIVOLIVREDENBURG UTRECHT (NL): EXCLUSIEVE PREMIÈRE VAN DE NIEUWE DOCUMENTAIRE ‘TRACKING BIRNA’ VAN WARDRUNA (NO)
- EXCLUSIEVE SCREENING VAN WARDRUNA'S LAATSTE EUROPESE TOURNEE VAN DE 'BIRNA' ALBUM CYCLUS -

Op woensdag 11 maart gaat in TivoliVredenburg Utrecht de documentaire ‘Tracking Birna: From Earth to Light and Earth Again’ in première. Deze film volgt het Noorse wereldmuziekcollectief Wardruna tijdens de laatste Europese tournee van de ‘Birna’ albumcyclus. ‘Tracking Birna’ biedt een zeldzame blik achter de schermen van een van de meest bijzondere en internationaal succesvolle Noorse muziekprojecten van dit moment. Wardruna nodigt haar publiek uit om muziek niet alleen te beluisteren, maar samen te beleven — als community, als gedeelde reis.

De film voert langs iconische locaties als onder meer de Royal Albert Hall in Londen, het eeuwenoude amfitheater van Pompeii en de heilige gronden van de Blackfeet Nation in Montana. Het is een verhaal over ontmoeting, vertrouwen en verbondenheid: over de band, de crew en de relaties die onderweg zijn gegroeid. Met exclusieve interviews en intieme backstagebeelden onthult ‘Tracking Birna’ wat Wardruna zo uniek maakt. De documentaire laat hun werkwijze, toewijding en diepe verbondenheid met de natuur zien — de bron van hun muzikale inspiratie. Vanuit hun Noorse thuisbasis reist het verhaal de wereld over, om uiteindelijk terug te keren naar een nieuwe fase: een periode van rust na jaren van beweging.

Wardruna combineert traditionele Noordse klanken en historische instrumenten met een eigentijdse, internationale kracht. Hun muziek overstijgt grenzen en brengt mensen uit verschillende culturen samen. Ze bereikten een miljoenenpubliek met bijdragen aan de tv-serie 'Vikings' en de game 'Assassin’s Creed Valhalla', speelden wereldwijd uitverkochte concerten en traden op unieke locaties op, waaronder de Akropolis in Athene. Vanwege de jarenlange band tussen TivoliVredenburg en Wardruna — die in november 2024 nog twee uitverkochte shows in de Grote Zaal gaf — vindt deze exclusieve première plaats in de intieme Club Nine (deuren open vanaf 19.30 uur) op groot scherm met een indrukwekkend geluid. Verwacht een meeslepende audiovisuele ervaring.

Tickets (€12,- incl. servicekosten) voor dit unieke evenement (seated) zijn gelimiteerd en verkrijgbaar via de website https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/

WARDRUNA
Wardruna heeft een rijk, gelaagd en dramatisch muzikaal landschap gecreëerd waarin het verre verleden wordt geëerd en tegelijk nieuwe betekenis krijgt. Met zorgvuldig uitgewerkte, hedendaagse composities brengt de band de Noorse traditie opnieuw tot leven. Inspiratie vindt de band in de natuur en in de voortdurende wisselwerking tussen mens, landschap en onzichtbare krachten. Vanaf de ‘Runaljod’-trilogie (2009, 2013, 2016) — waarin oude Noorse mythen, tradities en taal worden verkend aan de hand van de 24 proto-Noorse runen — ontwikkelde het geluid zich verder. Op ‘Skald’ (2018) koos Wardruna voor uitgeklede akoestische composities. ‘Kvitravn’ (2021) verkende Noordelijke magie, geestdieren en animisme, en de steeds veranderende relatie tussen dichter en natuur. Het album behaalde hoge noteringen in dertien landen, waaronder #1 in Canada en Oostenrijk en #2 in Duitsland. In 2025 verscheen het meest recente album ‘Birna’, dat eveneens hoog eindigde in diverse internationale hitlijsten.

EINAR SELVIK – ZANGER, COMPONIST, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, DOCENT
Einar Selvik groeide op ten noorden van Bergen, op het eiland Osterøy. Al op jonge leeftijd verdiepte hij zich in runen en Scandinavische geschiedenis. Vanuit die fascinatie ontstond het verlangen om muziek te maken die geworteld is in historische bronnen. Na jaren in verschillende metalbands koos hij bewust voor zijn eigen muzikale pad. Hij stortte zich volledig op Scandinavische traditionele muziek, zowel vocaal als instrumentaal, en ontwikkelde een unieke benadering waarin historische kennis en artistieke expressie samenkomen. Sinds 2002 verdiept Selvik zich intensief in de voorchristelijke Noorse cultuur, filosofie en mythologie. Hij gaf lezingen in academische context over de Oudnoorse wereld en zijn muzikale werk, en verzorgt regelmatig tutorials en presentaties over literatuur, instrumenten en muziekgeschiedenis. Hij werkte samen met artiesten als Mari Boine, Tina Guo, Matoma en Eivør, met optredens op Noorse, Deense en Poolse nationale televisie.
Selviks werkwijze is multidisciplinair en gebaseerd op grondige studie van primaire bronnen, gecombineerd met zijn ervaring als uitvoerend musicus en dichter. Naast Wardruna componeerde Selvik muziek voor grote producties zoals de tv-serie ‘Vikings’ (History Channel, 2014) en de officiële soundtrack van de game ‘Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’ (2020), samen met BAFTA-winnaar Jesper Kyd en componist Sarah Schachner.
Wardruna - Birna (Official Music Video)

Discografie

Runaljod – gap var Ginnunga (2009)

Runaljod – Yggdrasil (2013)

Runaljod – Ragnarok (2016)

Skald (2018)

Kvitravn (2021)

Kvitravn – First Flight of the White Raven (live album) (2022)

Birna (2025)

ONLINE

Website - https://www.wardruna.com/