Néfur

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“Can we heal ourselves and the Earth if we reconnect with the primal beauty of the wild and with the erotic pulse in everything that lives? ”

NÉFUR

Singer, composer and performer

Néfur listens, sings, records and makes music with glaciers. Through the sounds of water and her voice, she builds myth and story. Through her artistic universe she helps us to remember our kinship with bodies of water; to re-align with the cosmic and ancient rhythms of nature, and to rekindle our erotic pulse as our most powerful creative force.

Shortlisted for her field recording of Solheimajökull glacier lagoon on BBC Sound Awards 2021, she has put together an album composed only with sounds of Icelandic glaciers and her voice which premiered at Spitalfields Music Festival in London. Néfur tours collaboratively across Europe with improvisation-based concerts with her field recordings and vocals. She composes for dance, theatre, performance, film and video-art. She has recently performed at festivals CTM (Berlin) and Sonar (Barcelona). She holds a distinction-awarded MA in Performance Making by Goldsmiths College - University of London and a Bachelor in Music by ESMUC (Barcelona).

THE WATER, THE LOVER

The Water, The Lover is both a studio album and a performative concert with seven compositions that explore a new mythology of kinship with glaciers. The Egg, The Mermaid, The String, The Human, The Mirror, The Phoenix and The Source are myths and archetypal stories that nourish an intimacy with water bodies and feed the sensuous universes of intuition and ancestral memory.

Néfur composed and produced The Water, The Lover using her field recordings of Icelandic glaciers in combination with her voice. She recorded sounds of glaciers between 2021 and 2023 in Snaefellsjökull, Solheimajökull, Vatnajökull, Ok -the first Icelandic glacier to be lost- and Langjökull.

The full album is OUT NOW!

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PODCAST

The Glacier's Song

A podcast by Néfur

In the podcast The Glacier's Song, I am sharing insights into the personal and creative process of creating this project, which actually started with a dream I had back in 2020: I was seeing myself on stage singing with a glacier that would make her sounds, too.

I started releasing episodes of The Glacier's Song on Spotify in July 2023.

In The Glacier's Song podcast you can find creative, artistic and personal insights into my process, meditations with sounds of glaciers, glacier expedition sonic reports and examples, conversations with key artistic collaborators of the project as well as with writers and researchers with an environmental focus.

The Glacier's Song is available to listen on Spotify.

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