Today, Norwegian progressive trailblazers Enslaved are honoured to reveal their latest creation – two unique recordings of sea shanties, made in collaboration with the Storm Weather Shanty Choir, who hail from Bergen, Norway’s great sailing ship the Statsraad Lehmkuhl.
The shanties are titled Fire Marengo and Anna Lovinda. Fire Marengo is a traditional shanty, whilst Anna Lovinda was written by the late sailor and Norwegian cultural figure Erik Bye.
Enslaved explained the collaboration: “Enslaved was formed on the western edge of Norway, where mountains fall into the sea and history is carried by wind and tide. Bergen is not simply a coastal city; it is a threshold — between land and ocean, between myth and lived experience. The sea is not scenery here. It is memory, labour, departure and return.”
