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If you can\u2019t be who you should be, you should be who you are. Almost exactly one year after Frida \u00c5nnevik released her critically acclaimed album Her bor, which won a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy), the thematically linked album that she announced would follow, Flyge fra, is being released. The two albums were recorded simultaneously, with the same musicians, and both were produced by Frida herself together with K\u00e5re Chr. Vestrheim (Highasakite, Odd Nordstoga, Marit Larsen). The original plan when they went into the studio was to record one album, but the recording process was more intuitive and spontaneous than she had experienced previously, and proved to be a fountain of creativity. It thus became clear at an early stage that the sessions would result in two records, not one. Thematically the two albums are complete opposites. \u201cHer bor is all about belonging,\u201d \u00c5nnevik says. \u201cFlyge fra is about the little things that make you feel different or like an outsider, the expectations that limit your scope of action. Small questions or answers that make you deviate a tiny bit from the standard. That little by little increase the feeling of not quite managing life, or being normal.\u201d \u00c5nnevik is clearly addressing the subject of identity, making Flyge fra her most openly political record thus far.<\/p>\n
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Almost exactly one year after Frida \u00c5nnevik released her critically acclaimed album Her bor, which won a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy), the thematically linked album that she announced would follow, Flyge fra, is being released.<\/p>\n
With the release of Flyge fra, \u00c5nnevik is completing her biggest recording project yet: two related records that belong together, but at the same time mark out their own individual courses. They are closely related musically. Both albums show a more outgoing side of Frida, and offer music with an extrovert flavour. Some of \u00c5nnevik\u2019s catchiest and most spontaneous songs ever can be found on these two albums. When Her bor was released Frida said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to hear any more about my being low-key. That\u2019s something I actually feel as though I have never been. I could have called it \u2018Hedmars-fado\u2019 right from the start in order to describe what\u2019s vibrating, what\u2019s smouldering, underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thematically the two albums are complete opposites. \u201cHer bor is all about belonging,\u201d \u00c5nnevik says. \u201cFlyge fra is about the little things that make you feel different or like an outsider, the expectations that limit your scope of action. Small questions or answers that make you deviate a tiny bit from the standard. That little by little increase the feeling of not quite managing life, or being normal.\u201d \u00c5nnevik is clearly addressing the subject of identity, making Flyge fra her most openly political record thus far. Ole Ivar\u2019s statement \u201cIf you can\u2019t be who you should be, you should be who you are\u201d has been a guiding principle for Frida: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to escape from your identity \u2013 it can\u2019t be changed. It\u2019s not a choice; it\u2019s what you are. We can\u2019t choose another one instead, push it away, or cover it up.\u201d Because what you yourself are is not something you can run away from. \u201cIdentity is political. And I take it personally.\u201d When asked why this record is appearing at this particular moment she replies: \u201cOpenly expressing fear for things or people that are different has become admissible. And it\u2019s tacitly accepted that some people act on this fear. Like when neo-Nazis march in the streets, and the police let them. I can physically feel that the climate for debate is changing. The boundaries have changed for what it is acceptable to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frida \u00c5nnevik, from Ridabu outside of Hamar, immediately became a name to be reckoned with when her debut album, Synlige hjerteslag, was released in 2010. Her low-key \u201cpop in an open landscape\u201d, her unique voice and her inventive lyrics appealed to both reviewers and a broad audience. Synlige hjerteslag was ranked the best Norwegian-language record of the year by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s programme Norsk p\u00e5 Norsk on the radio station P1, and was featured on lists of the year\u2019s best albums by the TV show \u201cLydverket\u201d and the newspaper V\u00e5rt Land, among others. \u00c5nnevik was nominated for a Spellemannspris both as newcomer of the year and in the folk category. She also received the Vidar Sandbeck Cultural Award, \u201cRegnb\u00e5g\u00e5brua\u201d, and the Lyric Writers Fund debut award, \u201cLyspunkt\u201d. She won a Spellemannspris for the lyrics on Ville Ord and has also received the Pr\u00f8ysenprisen award, the Hedmark County Cultural Award and the Neshornspris award from the newspaper Klassekampen. Her bor was released in 2016 and was awarded a Spellemannspris in the folk category.<\/p>\n
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