Ambient EP, 2025
Šuvva
Photos: Adrian Svendsen Bensvik. Video: Niklas Aune Johnsen / Najs Media
About Šuvva
“Šuvva is a beautiful Northern Sámi word. For me, it describes the whisper of the wind in nature.”
“The word captures the calm feeling of standing in the forest and hearing the trees rustle. Those are the feelings I wanted to convey with the record.”
The EP, a journey through time and space, came out on 6 June 2025. It moves between nature and technology, with recordings from Okstindan in Hemnes, the forests of Helgeland, Sámi duodji and joik, processed into soundscapes that shift between the concrete and the abstract.
It grew out of the production techniques he learned while studying in Berlin, and was released independently, with artist development funding from the Sámi Parliament.
Wind, water and rain from the nature of Sápmi and Northern Norway, and the sounds of Sámi handicraft, were all processed digitally and combined with electronic instruments, into landscapes that feel both intimate and expansive.
Tracks
- GáissáideInspired by changes in mood and landscape
- MearraFrom recordings on the Helgeland coast, with waves and seabirds
- ÁhčisA personal track, built on a joik he received from his father
- RávdnjiBuilt from the sounds of duodji, and inspired by the energies of nature
- ŠuvvaA rhythmic, calm track inspired by a trip to Japan in 2017, with field recordings from Sápmi
- SkábmaA minimal ending inspired by the dark season in the north, made from time-stretched recordings of ice and a diffuse joik
Release concert
The release was marked with a concert inside the greenhouse Space for Plants in Bodø. The audience sat around him, and the set began with slow ambient soundscapes and moved, little by little, into rhythmic, club-inspired parts.
