Style:
Folk/Country/Jazz Homepage
Releases:
Eivør Pálsdóttir (Tutl - 20001)
Krákan (12T001 - 2003)
Eivør (12T010 - 2004)
Trøllabundin (12T013 - 2005)

One of the brightest stars on the Faroese musical horizon, Eivør Pálsdóttir grew up in the village of Gøta. She began performing locally at an early age and made her first appearance on Faroese television when she was thirteen.

Eivør’s trademarks are the intensity and honesty of her performances as well as the breadth of vocal styles - from resonant operatic to clean folk, from raw, open throat ethnic to husky jazz - that she so skilfully uses in her sublimely personal musical expression. With her roots firmly planted in her native Faroese tradition, Eivør Pálsdóttir creates music that reaches out to enthral listeners all over the world.

Eivør released her first album at age 16 on the local Faroese market, and went gold. Despite her enormous success on her native soil, she decided to move to Iceland to add a few more variations onto her talents by taking singing lessons. Since then, she has more or less stuck around in Iceland, which ultimately lead to the point where the Icelandic nation started to adopt her as their own. She was chosen the best singer, and performer of the year at the Icelandic music awards 2003, and has sold over 10.000 copies of her records in Iceland, for example.

In 2003, Eivør released her second album, Krákan, on the newly started 12 Tónar label, in fact, she was the first artist ever to be released on our label. The album went gold in Iceland last year (over 5000 copies sold) and also sold well in her native Faroe Islands and Scandinavia.

2004 saw the release of Eivør's 3rd album, the self-titled Eivør where she worked with west-icelandic musician Bill Bourne. The record was a different take on her previous music style, taking the direction more into folk and country. The album was well recieved in the whole of Scandinavia and Canada.

In early 2005 she finished her project with the Danish radio Big band, which lead to the relese of Trøllabundin, where Eivør's earlier works are given a new glance and put in powerful jazz arrangements by the Big band. Currently Eivør is living in Copenhagen and recently finished recoring a new album, 'Human Child' expected to be out soon.

Press:

"It´s amazing, almost purifying to watch Eivør and her band. The music is pure and flows effortlessly. The soothing, folk-like songs were painfully beautiful and the audience were awestruck when Eivør sang accompanied by the sole bass line of Birgir. On the other hand there where some traditional rock elements, “ soft-loud-soft “ sonic structures and extreme highes that called to mind similarities with Sigur Rós. Totally brilliant."
Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen, Morgunblaðið, Iceland

”Extraordinarily talented…She has a voice of alluring fragility with a knowing and mature strength… She’s not afraid to screech and squeak…before reverting to a calm woman-girl voicing of (the) lyrics… Eivør singing…with a passionate delight as in a song new found.”
Andrew Cronshaw, Folk Roots Magazine (England)

“…Eivör Pálsdóttir is a talent out of the ordinary, and her second album Krákan is one of the most beautiful I have heard this year.” “ Eivør is a new star on the Northatlantic horizon.”
Gaffa.dk (6/6)

"Wonderful, beautiful, lovely, heavenly, romantic and natural. A few passing words about this fantastic album and the singer Eivør Pálsdóttir."
Göteborgs-Posten (5/6)