Kalandra Discography

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Hilma Kolin

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Aug 4, 2024, 2:50:52 PM8/4/24

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NorwegianSwedish atmospheric folk rock band Kalandra is active for more than a decade and long-term work is bringing its results. They might be still getting afternoon slots at big festivals and a support band role on the EU tours, but I can sense impressively rising desire of the audience to get more from them. They played a great show at Colours of Ostrava festival last year, where an audience was asking for bigger stage and longer set next time, as well as with Wardruna on the main stage. During the preparation stage, before European tour with Leprous & Monuments, Katrine accepted an invitation to present her top 10 albums, as well as memories on Colours of Ostrava, early days of the band and new music in progress.

I gladly went again through your overall discography. Take us back please ten years ago, when you were releasing your first music. How were you formulating your sound and what were the main inspirations? As I am a long term fan, I feel some elements of The Cranberries, but what about folk inspirations?

It is great you never limited yourself and add elements of electronics and heavier guitars. Give us please an idea, how was Lullaby getting born? I really love both electronic heavy solo on the studio version, while live, it is an epic pure guitar sound.

I spoke about this with Einar Selvik and many others. Plus it really fits to your artworks. Are the walks in the nature, away from the civilization, helpful for you to clear your mind and filter your thoughts, and was it even more helpful during pandemic?

Impressive work on Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands soundtrack. Was it a long term dream of you guys to work on a soundtrack and are there any genre-wise dreams of yours for some other soundtracks? Listening to a song Greed, I remembered an amazing soundtrack for Dune.