Oslo based musician Unnveig Aas is one of the up and coming names on the Norwegian folk scene.
How Long Must a Woman Mourn was released on video last May – it reveals a strong energy within the folk-singer – yet her style of music is fragile and bittersweet.
We have been listening:
With plaintive strumming and sea-ghost shimmers— the pace of this is like saltmarsh shingles carried slowly in by slack water tides.
The initial line of vocal: “When my first lover left…” illuminates the scene, yet is starkly blanched.
The voice is like blue opal wrapped in laurel leaf.
Light and bright, yet packed in a bandage of smooth anointing oil.
The song builds up gradually into a hymn of power and misfortune.
Haunting folk rock with more ebb and flow than a tidewater fall-line during a harvest moon.
Words: @neilmach 2015 ©
Link: https://www.facebook.com/unnveigaas
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