Krystallhavet (digital single)

Description

Krystallhavet

Song Story
As it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire, where only faith can compass this vast expanse set before the throne of God. To anchor safe harbour in heaven, a soul must cross The Crystal Sea.

Music Description
The fan harp is improvising over the written bandoneon composition in order to extract an ethereal effect that matches a distinction between the real and spiritual realms. This is a musical foreshadowing of the final album piece. 

Skrog

Song Story
You can feel the salty sea spray on your face and feel the rolling of the vessel as it heaves away and hauls away with the hull crashing through huge waves as our seaman sails the ocean vast. Navigating life and the seas finds our hero on strange shores, in exotic ports, and far off lands, pushing back the edges of the world and bravely not heeding the maps’ warnings of “Here be monsters.”

Music Description
The Ensemble Phos version of Skrog (different to the ENE Favn album version) has the added instrument of the tarhu, played by Michalis Cholevas. The haunting sound of the tarhu adds a rough edged and mournful depth to the exotic melody it wends and weaves between the harp and bandoneon. This version of Skrog evokes the feelings beyond seafaring adventure to include those ideas of being subject to the vagaries of the sea, the changeable winds, the king tides and the strong currents, all the while being humbled by the never ending horizon.

Krystallhavet is the second single from the full length album ENE Favn (24th Nov 2023).