We are very proud to announce that Movements I has been nominated for a Faroese Music Award for Alternative Album of the Year. It’s a big honour to be recognized among all the music that has been released throughout the year.

The award show will be held in the Nordic House in Tórshavn, Faroe Island on March 6th. It will be sent on Faroese national television as well.

The fourth and last single from the album Movements I is now out. It’s called Emberlin and is one of the calmer tracks on the album, and personally, it’s one of my favourite moments on the whole musical arc…

Third single from Movements I is out today: Undertryk.

Built on a hypnotic pizzicato groove, it slowly gathers its layers: Greek-style clarinet, African percussion, and wordless vocals. Sitting in the final spot on the A-side, it’s intimate, textured, and - hopefully - quietly addictive.

Taktstok, the second single from the upcoming Movements I album is out now. It has muscle, dance, pathos, and bombast, with Nordic flair - a bit like salmiak-infused salty liquorice on a bed of raspberry ice cream.

A week after releasing Aelva, we’re back with a new perspective. This Close-Up Version strips away the broader structures and dives into the physical core of the track. The pulse is heavier, the mood darker, the mix more intimate. It’s part of a series where we zoom in on different aspects of each piece, revealing new angles, textures, and emotions hidden inside the singles.

We’re releasing new music!! Our last release was in 2019 - the longest break we’ve taken since Afenginn began over two decades ago. But while it’s been quiet on the surface, we’ve been building underneath.

And today it begins. AELVA is the first single from Movements I - our eighth album, and the opening step in a long-form trilogy. In many ways it is the first movement. Exciting!

Something is stirring in the Afenginn universe. Movements is our eighth album and the first in a carefully constructed trilogy - a long-form musical work composed in interwoven movements, designed with the vinyl format in mind, and made to set your internal dancer free. There will be molecular rearrangements. There will be grit, elegance, and occasional chaos. And yes, the 70’s Finnish disko boy in me is very excited…!

It's been twenty years since we released our debut album, "Retrograd." That was on October 5th, 2004. Time has a curious way of slipping by unnoticed until, suddenly, it stands before you, two decades tall, as a reminder of its fleeting existence. And it's good to get these reminders once in a while - to sit down and reflect on the path and the role we're playing in the bigger picture (not in the cosmic sense, but more culturally and socio-realistically). In that situation, I find myself astonished at how fast the years go by. How what feels like a handful of moments has stretched into twenty years, seven albums, and over 600 concerts.

Next weekend, on Friday the 14th of June, we’ll have the big honour of performing at this year’s Heartland Festival on the beautiful Fyn in Denmark. We’re playing at the Backroads Stage at 18:30, and we’ve prepared the best 60 minutes of Afenginn music that we could. It will be both salty and bitter and sweet and sweaty, bombastic and beautiful and sour and bastards, exhilarating and exhausting, thrilling and tranquil, chaotic and calming, unpredictable and unforgettable.

Last weekend we headed off the Esbjerg on the Danish west coast. For the third time, the fabulous Folk & Fæstival invited us to play at their festival. The Danish music magazine Gaffa was on the spot and gave us a great five-star review with the headline:

Spherical, spiritual, melancholic and life-affirming. Afenginn performed a memorable concert that contained all emotions and was almost spiritual!

We have some thrilling news to share with you. Yes, you read that correctly – there's new Afenginn music on its way, planned for release in 2024. This is an exciting chapter for our band, and we looking very much forward to reveal what’s cooking in the headquarter.

On September 29th we’ll be visiting Klaverfabrikken in Hillerød, Denmark with our only concert this autumn. When we started the band over 20 years ago, one of the first booking we got was at the venue Klaverfabrikken. Since then we’ve performed there multiple times. Now it’s been quite a while since last time and we’re looking very much forward being back!