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Her mellifluous tone is from another time.
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ALBUM: Out Now
For two months earlier this year, I had the wild privilege of traveling to the small town of Skagastrond, Iceland, as a part of an artist residency. Each day, I woke up and looked out my window to see a breathtaking view of the mountain Spákonufell.
I am delighted to announce the release of my album, “Spákonufell,” which was written and recorded in in the freezer of an old fish factory located in this town. This is also the mountain that graces my album cover in artwork by the massively talented Lena J. Fahlén.
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Collaborations
In the freezer of an old fish factory in this tiny town, I wrote and recorded my newest album — which I named “Spákonufell” for the mountain that greeted me every morning. The collaborations and experiences that brought this album to life changed me and allowed me to be myself. Fully.
Have a listen to the exclusive embed here and let me know what you think.
Daughter of Nai
Daughter of Nai is a Ghanaian-American writer and digital media artist. Her work is grounded in themes of otherness, black womanhood, bodily autonomy, and displacement.
Scavenger, fed: Words By Naakai Addy + Music By Lara Kroeker + Violin parts by Cami Gliga + Beatrix McKenzie
Lena Fahlén
Lena is a visual artist from Sweden. She is interested in how humans and nature affect each other. Her works have often related to the four elements, soil, fire, air and water.
Album Cover: The mountain that graces my album cover in artwork is by the massively talented Lena J. Fahlén.
Dylan Fitzgibbons
Dylan, currently based in Phoenix, Arizona is an interdisciplinary artist that explores the notion of thin places, mythologies / folktales, and the meeting place of real and imagined.
Spákonufell: A collaboration with interviews by Dylan + words by Anne Renahan + Music by Lara Kroeker
Anne Renahan
Anne is a Photographer and book-maker based in Scotland.
You Left and Now I’m Thinking: Words by Anne Renahan + Ocean Sounds by Dylan Fitzgibbons
Spákonufell: Interviews by Dylan + words by Anne Renahan
AKaiser
AKaiser is the Pushcart Prize-nominated author of glint, co-winner of the inaugural Milk & Cake Book Prize (2019). AKaiser’s richly lyrical glint is a book of refractions and fracturing.
Astronaut, or Blues Singer: A collaboration with poet & translator AKaiser and her poem, “Astronaut, or Blues Singer” (glint, Milk & Cake Press).
Cami Gliga
Born and raised in Romania, Cami studied the construction of the musical instruments made of wood as part of her Forestry Engineering education. She moved to Canada in 2011 and established Gliga Violins.
Scavenger, Fed: Words By Naakai Addy + Music By Lara Kroeker + Violin solo parts by Cami Gliga + Beatrix McKenzie
Loc Dao
Loc is my partner and when I said I was going away he was a supportive (although I did feel guilty when he showed me pictures of the cats at the counter with him eating dinner).
He is a trilingual senior creative and technology professional and helped master and produce all of the songs on the album. He also added various parts on all of the songs.
Linda Saul
Linda’s work focuses on landscape in its varieties – urban, rural, coastal and sometimes wild.
Fly to Mars: Artwork in the video were Linda’s sketches of the landscape of Skagaströnd + Violin parts by Beatrix McKenzie
Damian
Damian is a rapper from Poland who moved to Skagaströnd 10 years ago to work in the bait factory. He lives with his wife and son Filipe (who is the child’s voice on the recording).
Rags of Light: A Collaboration With Beats by Damian + Music By Lara Kroeker + child’s voice by Filipe
Beatrix Mckenzie
Beatrix Mckenzie is a university student and an amazing musician who jumped in to help transcribe notation all of my songs.
Scavenger, Fed: Words By Naakai Addy + Music By Lara Kroeker + Violin solo parts by Cami Gliga + Beatrix McKenzie
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