Album with Ramona Linnea, 2024
Stories from Sápmie
iDJa on stage. Photos: TV Norge, Sondre Skjelvik, Naina Helén Jåma. Video: TV Norge
About Stories from Sápmie
Everything stems from the same source: nature in Sápmi, and the artists’ interpretation of it.
iDJa and the South Sámi artist Ramona Linnea made the album together during 2023. It draws on the nature of Sápmi, Sámi mythology and Indigenous struggle.
Their own field recordings from Helgeland are the starting point, mixed with electronic sound. The songs range from ambient and poems to house, pop and drum & bass.
Ramona Linnea has her roots in Helgeland in Nordland. Her wish to keep the South Sámi language and her family’s reindeer husbandry alive runs through the songs she writes. In 2024 the two of them reached the semifinals of Norway’s Got Talent.
The album has ten tracks, with Sámi poetry and nature recordings from one of the reindeer herding districts in Helgeland. Among them is “Mijjen Vaerieh, Mijjen Aerpie”, the first drum and bass song in South Sámi.
Maadteraahka, one of the songs, was nominated for Song of the Year at SVT Sápmi in 2024. Ramona Linnea comes from Sømna.
