FREYIA

According to the Mythologies and Religions Dictionary edited by Yves Bonnefoy, Freyia is, in the Germanic and Scandinavian mythology, the goddess of Vana, or rather belonging to the Vana group of gods. She is the hugest priestess of the supreme magic art called Seidr and this obscure distich makes her tutelary goddess of the deads. Freyia is the artistic name (and not only cause she’s always been called so) chosen by Antonella. The choice is not random cause she is graduated at the University of Foreign Languages and Literatures, specifically in Swedish and English Languages and Literatures with a final thesis titled "The Feminine Element in the Scandinavian Mythology" and enriched with several researches about the Living Theatre of Julian Beck and Judith Malina that will come up in the development of her artistic personality. Freyia's music path begins when she was 3 years old, exactly when she gets from her grandfather, merchant ships sailor, a harmonica that he used for many years. At ten she gets a guitar and starts to feel the “impetus” to express herself through the voice and then through two other instruments like harmonica and electric violin. Singing represents for her a suspension of the material ego, a stream of consciousness, a sort of shamanist ekstasis, the voice is for her the soul fulcrum. She sings in several bands, street musician in Boston (USA), she composes original songs for her band made up of two acoustic guitars, a harmonica and two violins. Her music influences swing among the echoes of Scandinavian and Lappish folk tradition, based on the cycle of seasons, up to the latest music expression of the same themes through a more extreme and melhancolic feeling: the Scandinavian gothic music. The climax of her artistic education was the theoretical and practical study of the lappish singing and of its main forms: Kulning and Joik. Techniques that Freyia learned in the north of Sweden, outside Kiruna, living and touching the deepness of Sami roots with her Sami friend and teacher Lena Rosemberg. The Vibrato vocal technique, peculiar to lapp singing, is used in the interpretation of her first single Mist (Virgin/Emi) released in 14 countries all over the world, played by BBC Radio1 in UK and remixed by a cool artist like Cigada (Nebula Records UK). Then comes her second single Rain of Time (Universal) and Massive (Climax Records UK). Freyia has now released her first single Horizon (SeawardMusic) from her upcoming album “BLOKULLA”.
FREYIA - RAIN OF TIME - THE VIDEO