Songleikr & Árstíðir - 2026
Produced by Fieke van den Hurk
Mixing by Fieke van den Hurk
Mastered by Maria Triana
Árstíðir
“Collaborating in music is both tricky, and at the same time the most powerful thing you can do!
When things really click, the end result brims with the musical input of everyone involved and becomes something so unique and different from everything else. THAT is what happened with ‘Omen om Uår’
Musicians from five countries all brought their musical voices to the song, enriching it with every step. And with every note.”
~ Árstíðir
Songleikr
Omen om Uår is a collaboration between the Norwegian/English ensemble Songleikr (“Song game”), the Icelandic ensemble Árstíðir (“seasons”), and Dutch producer and multi-instrumentalist Fieke van den Hurk. The title refers to the old Nordic concept of an uår—literally an “un-year”: a year marked by failed harvests, scarcity, hardship and uncertainty. Throughout history, such years were understood not only as periods of material deprivation, but as times that tested communities, relationships and the human spirit.
In the modern Western world, an uår rarely announces itself through a failed harvest. For most of us, there will still be food on the table. Instead, scarcity may take other forms: a loss of certainty, belonging, direction, love or the sense of who we thought we were. The hardship moves into the inner landscape. And, like the communities who endured the uår of the past, we are asked to endure a season in which something familiar can no longer sustain us. We are ured to pass through it, adapt, and eventually emerge on the other side.
An omen can only be fully understood in retrospect. At the time, it is merely a disturbance—a sense that something is shifting. Once we pas through the difficult season we can look back and recognise the signs for what they were. This song exists in that uneasy space before the full consequences are known: the moment when you sense that something is coming, but cannot yet see what form it will take.
Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch - vocals 🇳🇴
Maria Franz - vocals & moraharpa 🇳🇴
Kasia Sikora-Black - vocals 🇬🇧
Daniel Auðunsson - vocals & acoustic guitar 🇮🇸
Gunnar Már Jakobsson - vocals & baritone guitar 🇮🇸
Ragnar Ólafsson - vocals & piano 🇮🇸
Pètur Oddbergur Heimisson - vocals 🇮🇸
Lotta Ahlbeck - violin 🇫🇮
Fieke van den Hurk - accordion 🇳🇱
Artwork by Marta “Margo” Kosowska 🇵🇱
Song & lyrics by Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch
Arrangement by Songleikr, Árstíðir, Lotta Ahlbeck & Fieke van den Hurk
