Eivør Pálsdóttir Faroese Music Festival Interview

Eivør talks about the G! Festival 2010 and her upcoming album, Larva, to being published on October 4th.
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I believe that the G! Festival means a lot to the Faroe Islands and the Faroese music.

There is a lot of foreigners that come to the Faroe Islands at this time to attend the festival.

And this gets the Faroese music out to people around the world. The foreign press can hear the new Faroese bands, and all that stuff.

And the festival is in a good location, a small village, where nothing happens all year.

There are not even any shops there.

People in Gøta look forward to the festival all year round.

I think that almost all people that live in the area (Gøta) contribute to the festival somehow.

I remember when I was around 13 or 14 years old, I went around and recorded elders singing old songs.

Because I was so afraid that the elders would die, and the songs would die with them.

Because there is nobody that sings those songs anymore.

So I went around and recorded a lot of them and had them memorized.

It was like a period of time, where I was very into that. Also I of course drifted a little from it again, I don't sing so much of the traditional music any longer.

But in some kind of way it is still very deep inside of me and all the things I make. I am very inspired by it.

This album is probablly the wildest of my work so far.

I made it with some Faroese musicians, and Jens produced it. Jens plays in a band known as ORKA.

It is like an indie rock, and a little bit of pop. Most of the lyrics are in English.

But in a way, like I was talking about in the church, it's mood is a little dark.

And it's of course also inspired by the Faroe islands and primordial force.

And the mood here.