WARDRUNA
RIKSSCENEN, OSLO
Norway’s continuum-revealing visionaries reawaken the senses
Einar Selvik realigns mind, body and soul
DEPRIVED BY THE pandemic of the opportunity to celebrate Wardruna’s hugely successful new album, Kvitravn (No.1 on iTunes for its first three days, charting high globally), in an appropriately collective setting, rather than letting the moment pass, band mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Einar Selvik has opted instead to stream the event live from Riksscenen, Norway’s national centre for folk music. In a pre-show interview with Hammer’s former editor-in-chief Alexander Milas, whose Twin V productions recently shot a series of interviews with the artist, an as-ever stoic Selvik is earnest in his intention for the show, to bring people together and in so doing evoke one of Wardruna’s core tenets: collective spiritual reawakening. As Einar puts it: “We are going to try and do our best to visit you, to reach you.”