Wardruna - Skald 12" (Picture Disc)

Wardruna - Skald 12" (Picture Disc)

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Wardruna release their acclaimed acoustic album β€œSkald” as a Picture Disc vinyl in Gatefold, featuring a 12-pages booklet!

For years now Wardruna founder Einar Selvik has done acoustic concerts and lectures, performing Wardruna songs on his own, as well as creations made for the TV-show β€œVikings” in an acoustic format. Now parts of this material has finally been recorded β€œlive in studio” in Solslottet Studio in Bergen (Norway), and was initially released through By Norse Music on November 23rd 2018.

β€œSkald” takes the listener on a musical journey outside the massive soundscape that Wardruna is known for and into a simpler and more direct form, where voice, poetry and ancient instruments like Kravik-lyre, Taglharpa and Bukkehorn lead the way.

The Picture Disc edition contains an extensive booklet with all lyrics translated as well as a solid introduction to the Skald and Old Norse poetry written by the acclaimed Icelandic author and Old Norse philologist Bergsveinn Birgisson.

Tracklist:
Β 1. Vardlokk
Β 2. Skald
Β 3. Ein sat hun uti
Β 4. VoluspΓ‘ (skaldic version)
Β 5. Fehu (skaldic version)
Β 6. Vindavla
Β 7. Ormagardskvedi
Β 8. Gravbakkjen
Β 9. Sonatorrek
10. Helvegen (skaldic version)

Release date: December 17th, 2021
Label: By Norse Music
Media type: 12" LP Picture Disc, gatefold
Genre: World Music / Folk