Så Skall Hat och Avund Smältas (2023)
Åkervinda’s third album ‘Så Skall Hat och Avund Smältas’ (This is how hate and envy will melt away) is once more full of traditional folktunes from the Nordic countries sung in original vocal arrangements by the group members themselves. The album has both lightness and darkness, joy and sorrow, humor and seriousness, gravity and dansable passages… as we find it in the tune ‘Uti Vår Hage’ (In our garden) with it’s dark mysticism, ‘Allt vad vi på jorden äge’ (All we have on this earth) with it’s meditative contemplation and the danish tune ‘Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag’ (I went out one summer day) as a mirror of all the chaos in our world. As a remedy for all the heavy issues in the world the tune ‘Jag står upp en morgon’ (I got up one morning) is sung as a spell/incantation with the message This is how hate and envy will melt away, like the salt melts in the fresh water.
Nu är det gott att leva (2020)
This beautiful song by Olle Adolphson was brought back to life at Allsång på Skansen in 2019 where Åkervinda was asked to perform it together with the audience. Later, Åkervinda was so fond of the song that they decided to make their own arrangement and record it. The single features guest musician Villads Hoffmann on cittern and with beautiful artwork and stop-motion video made by the danish illustrator Marie Priem.
Förgänglighet (2018)
Nominated for a Swedish Grammis in the category “Årets folkmusik” in 2019
“Förgänglighet is a spiritual cleansing bath, a surprise, a little sensation in everyday life. Let yourself be fascinated.”
“... it’s a joy to hear these four voices joined together to form a whole of musical credibility”
Kära Mor (2014)
“The group sings the traditional folk songs in such a free and unconstrained way that the familiar folk expressions found in the well-known repertoire are almost certanly transformed into vocally bold arrangements. Åkervinda implements a real update of the traditionally saturated tunes from the past to a level that holds the most complex vocal harmonies, sometimes near a jazz idiom”
Collaborations
Åkervinda loves to collaborate with other artists and groups. These are some of their recorded collaborations:
Spöket i köket - Light is Dim/Hommage aux frères Pigeon (Château du Garage, 2019)
Tobias Elof - Settle Down (Settle Down, 2017)