“You can almost call it method-recording or method-composing, where I’m the instrument and the themes are the composer,” says the frontman, who describes himself as animistic – a believer that all objects and living things possess their own spiritual essence. Meanwhile, the recording sessions for the band’s new album, Kvitravn (White Raven), took place in forests and on burial mounds. When recording Laukr, named after the rune for water, Selvik delivered his vocals while standing submerged in a river. The connection to nature is palpable: melodies are overlaid with the sounds of gurgling water, howling wind and crackling fire. Each song told a story behind Nordic culture and traditions, via dark and ambient folk, played on ancient string and horn instruments, as well as animal hide drums. It was called Runaljod: Gap Var Ginnunga (Sound of Runes: The Gap Was Vast) and had taken seven years to research, write and record.
The multi-instrumentalist’s epiphany kicked off what is now one of the world’s most vibrant underground music scenes.Ĭalling on vocalists Lindy-Fay Hella and Gaahl, with whom Selvik had played in black metal band Gorgoroth, he created the band Wardruna and the first instalment of the trilogy arrived in 2009. He would create a trilogy of albums based on the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, the world’s oldest runic alphabet.
I n 2002, holed up in an attic studio on the majestic Norwegian coast, Einar Selvik had a vision.
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