On January 24, 2025, Norwegian ambient folks Wardruna will out out their sixth long player entitled Birna. It will be released worldwide by Sony Music and By Norse Music. Details and video for the first single, "Himinndotter", can be checked out below. The video clip was filmed in Rondane National Park in Norway and once again directed by Wardruna's longtime collaborator Tuukka Koski.

Mastermind Einar Selvik comments: "The more I thought, read, and researched, the more I realized that this album should mainly have a contemporary focus. Unraveling the long and entangled history of the relationship between man and Bear and contemplating the present state of how we humans relate to the wild in general. The bear doesn’t need my help or any human traditional ornamentation to be its own powerful self. It is quite the opposite if one looks to past bear-traditions worth remembering. We learn, we dream of borrowing its traits and abilities. We fear, revere, and try to walk alongside but on separate paths. Respectfully, claim space and give space. However inconvenient it may be, further taming of the wild can never be the fruitful way forward. For me, it profoundly felt like the right time to give voice to the Birna, mother and shepherd of the vanishing woods."

Source:	wardruna.com
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