• Home
  • Music
  • Lyrics
  • Contact

ELIN KÅVEN

  • Home
  • Music
  • Lyrics
  • Contact

Sami music from the far north

Arctic Folk Pop

“Hello! Welcome to my webpage. I am currently working on different projects. - A new Sami/viking band, Elin & The Woods, and also other exciting projects that are not ready to be announced just yet. Sign up for my newsletter and I will let you know! ”

— Elin Kåven

Latest Track

Eamiritni / Rimeborn

Elin Kåven

Download album
View on Bandcamp
Greetings
I want to show you my gratitude for you for listening to my music. I feel blessed to have been able to continue my dreams of singing, performing and recording music in Sámi for ten years now. It has been a journey that has led to this album. It is my third solo album, but for me it feels like my debut album, because why I express myself through voice has changed. In this album I am much more influenced by the traditional sami yoik. The past few years I more clearly see the uniqueness of our culture – the Sami culture, as I have travelled around the world, and seen similarities and differences compared to other cultures. This has inspired me to highlight and celebrate our uniqueness through art.
I have also understood the importance of knowing my own culture and heritage. It is easy to feel lost without roots to nurture and take knowledge and values from. The making of this album has brought me closer to my origin, and has made me feel reborn.
Three years ago I moved back to Sápmi after 16 years away. I decided to do this because I wanted to bring the experience of the arctic life with me on stage. I wanted to be and manifest the qualities that come from the arctic living and culture. I am aiming to express and share these values on stage, therefore it was important to me that I return to my roots and live my culture every day. This has resulted in tracks that are personal, and inspired by the way music is made in Sami culture.
It is common practice to yoik people, mountains, nature and animals for Sami people. On this album you will hear yoiks and songs dedicated to my cat Lynxie, my neice Enya, my grandmother Inga, trees, a dance festival - Gothla.uk - that shaped my life, and personal experiences while living in Sápmi the past few years.
My birthday is in autumn-winter, and it is the season of both green leaves and rime. It is the most beautiful season of the year to me. Enjoy!
Ává/hugs Elin Kåven
Read more… close
0:00 / 0:00
  1. 1 Javkan / Vanished 05:15 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  2. 2 Hiras / Demure 04:10 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  3. 3 Lynxie 03:30 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  4. 4 Gothla 03:58 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  5. 5 Gavnnahallan / Revealed 03:39 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  6. 6 Muorat dánsot / Trees dance 01:58 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  7. 7 Enya 05:25 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  8. 8 Dohkka / Doll 01:17 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  9. 9 Friddja / Free 03:11 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  10. 10 Veahkkin / Help 01:20 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  11. 11 Gárdin-áhkku / Grandmother Inga 03:27 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  12. 12 Àlgu / Beginning 01:34 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  13. 13 Hiras / Demure 04:10 Info Buy
    0:00 / 0:00
  14. 14 Lynxie 03:31 Info Download
    0:00 / 0:00

BIOGRAPHY

ELIN; Light. Beutiful Fairy.  

KÅVEN; Familyname of the most famous sami shaman in Sapmi.  

Elin Kåven has established herself as a sami artist and songwriter, and she got the nickname ”The arctic fairy” for her unique stagepresence and dance. Music critics comment her music as her own genre of music. She herself calls it arctic folk pop.  

The music of Elin Kåven is inside the sphere of sami mythology combined with soundscapes from historical and modern instrumenst, together with poprock and ambient sounds.  

She has played over 300 concerts the last 10 years in 11 different countries, including, Germany, Switserland, Latvia, Russia, Japan, Venezuela and Azerbaidjan.  

She has won the Sami Grand Prix songcompetition, elected “Sami Artist of the year 2011” and was finalist in International Songwriting Competition in USA with famous judges Ozzy Osbourne and Tori Amos amongst others.  

In 2016 her third album was nominated to ”Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik/German Record Critics Award” – an award established by 127 record critics in Germany.  

Her third album ”Eamirtini-Rimeborn” was released in Europe november 2015 and got very good reviews and was number 11 on ”World Music Chart Europe” in march 2016. The nordic release of the same album was in february 2016.  

In 2017 she ended on third place in Melodi Grand Prix - Norwegian Eurovision with a new band "Elin & The Woods". 

  

Said about Elin Kåven:  

General-Anzeiger (Bonn): “She unites the traditions of the Sámi with hypnotically beautiful modern melodies and a voice that is out of this world, a fairy’s, as it were”. (2015)  

"Elin Kåven's music is like fairy-tales in notes. In her senuous and vivid songs I could feel her strong connection to Nordic traditions, culture and nature so intensely like I was experiencing it myself."  
- Anja Otten-Reichel, Publisher Norrden.de, Quote (Sep 30, 2013) 

  

At the moment Elin Kåven is working with many different projects including the band "Elin & The Woods".

You can always find her music online on iTunes, Spotify, youtube, Bandcamp, Amazon to mention a few.

FROM THE BLOG

START OF A NEW SAMI BLOG  


Jungle Svonni and I have started a new sami blog. It was launched a few days ago, and we have 6 post up already! We will post every tuesday. Make sure you subsribe to our feed or even our newsletter.

On this blog we will share everything we can about the Sami people – the native people of the north of Europe. If you are interested in indigenous peoples, arctic and native lifestyles, global sustainability, nature, spirituality, mythology and shamanism this blog is for you! 




See you on Beneath Northern Lights.com ! 


12/09/2018

  • Leave a comment
  • Share

« First ‹ Prev 1 2 … 39 Next › Last »

Shows

Like on Facebook

Elin Kåven
Elin & The Woods

Instagrams @elinkaaven

This feature is rendered via ajax

All rights reserved Elin Kåven 2018

Powered by Bandzoogle