Hugar - 2021 - Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu

Icelandic band HUGAR present the video for their new single Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu. Stream & download the single here – Subscribe to Hugars official Youtube channel here: This song by Icelandic band HUGAR is their haunting solo-piano version of an ancient Icelandic folk song – the title meaning ‘Vatnsenda-Rosa’s Verses’ and comes from their new 5-track EP ‘Þjóðlög / Folk Songs’ which will be released on May 28th, 2021. For this EP, they selected a set of five songs from the canon of Islandic Folk Music as their base material. Hugar says “These are very old Icelandic songs that were part of an oral tradition, luckily saved for the nation by having been written down in the late 19thcentury. We feel that it is very important to keep these songs alive. They reflect our long, dark, raw winters with their themes of loss, grief and darkness. Our aim is to represent t