"Voci di mare e di vento"
brigan feat.torgeir vassvik
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Liburia World 017
Formato: digital - Cd audio/digipack
2026
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The new album by Brigan, “Voices of Sea and Wind”, to be released on April 1, 2026 by Liburia Records, was born from a crossing—one that is not only geographical, but also sensory and human. The project emerged from the meeting between the Italian ensemble and Sámi musician Torgeir Vassvik, developed during an artistic residency in the far north of Norway.
From January 22 to February 3, 2025, the musicians lived and worked at Slettnes Lighthouse, on the Nordkyn Peninsula, near the village of Gamvik, in Norway, one of the northernmost inhabited places in Europe. The residency “Voices of Sea and Wind”, supported by Creative Europe and the Goethe-Institut, gave rise to a work that weaves together music, storytelling and landscape.
In this borderland between open sea and fjords, wind-swept plateaus and small fishing villages, wind and sea are not neutral elements: they are living presences, voices that shape time, labour and the memory of the communities that inhabit the coast. The extreme environmental conditions, the few hours of daylight and the isolation imposed a different rhythm on the creative process, turning every action and every sound into narrative material.
“Voices of Sea and Wind” is therefore an act of listening before it is a story. The album gathers sonic and textual fragments that cross traditions and territories: folk songs, literary texts, archival recordings and original compositions merge into a musical fabric that connects the Mediterranean and the Arctic.
The project is accompanied by a true travel diary included in the release: a collection of texts written by Andrea Laudante, developed during the stay in Gamvik, together with photographs taken on location by Francesco Di Cristofaro. Words and images document the experience in northern Norway, capturing the landscape, atmosphere and everyday life of a territory where nature and human existence remain deeply intertwined.
Among the sources featured in the work are texts drawn from Canti del popolo napoletano, collected and annotated in 1880 by Luigi Molinaro del Chiaro, as well as a narrated passage taken from Vora la mar by Jacint Verdaguer. The track “La mattanza” also incorporates fishermen’s voices taken from archival field recordings made in Favignana.
The music is composed by Brigan, with contributions shared with Torgeir Vassvik, creating a sonic dialogue that blends traditional and contemporary instruments: double flutes, whistles, bouzouki and mandolin coexist with shamanic drums, jaw harp, electronics and electric guitar, while narrated and sung voices build a story that moves across tides, memories and distant landscapes.
The album was recorded during the residency at Slettnes Lighthouse, while mixing and mastering were completed by Andrea Laudante at Liburia Records Studio in Sant’Arpino, Italy.
Rather than attempting to explain a place, Voices of Sea and Wind seeks to listen to it: a work that leaves space for the wind, the sea and the voices shaped by them to speak through the music.
Line-up
BRIGAN
Francesco Di Cristofaro — narrator, double flute, low whistle, mandolin, punteiro, bouzouki
Andrea Laudante — narrator, vocals, electronics, electric guitar, percussion
Ramon Rodriguez Gomez — square tambourine, pandereta, shamanic drum, kanjira, jaw harp (marranzano), effects
feat.
Torgeir Vassvik — vocals, guitar, munnharpe, drum
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