Vocal Coach REACTS - Aurora & Wardruna 'Helvegen' (Live)

This must have been a beautiful event to view live. I was captivated completely by the atmosphere the music and voices created. Aurora was as pitch perfect and flawless as ever!

🔴 For your own Singing evaluation & analysis, please go to:

This Video has been created in the hope that you may learn how to harness your own performance abilities and be able to make smart, informed choices on stage that enhance your performance.

For a coaching session with Ken Lavigne; connect via the website below and sign up for lessons through video chat!
🔴 Full coaching session by the hour:
🔴 Music site:
🔴Socials:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#aurora #wardruna #reaction

[kylebramhall]

I don't know who first said it but I'll quote them, "This song makes me homesick for a place I've never been."

[roblaw]

<tee hee, he said "spinal cord", tee hee>

YES! If this piece/performance doesn't hit you at the level of your DNA, well, I suspect you may be an improperly crafted golem...

That said, the clearly indicated follow-up for more from Einar is his live Vikings Suite performance with Tina Guo, and full orchestra conducted by Trevor Morris, at Krakow Film Music Festival. Yep, that's the ticket for sure!

Enjoy

Cheers

rl
🤘👹🤘

[ratmackay]

So Einar, the lead singer, has explained before that in the days before Christianity spread, their people had songs for everything...songs for planting and harvesting, songs for birth and death...that when you were on your deathbed, people would gather around and sing you to the other side. Those songs are long forgotten...so they are making new songs. This is kind of a new song to sing you across to the other side. So, sowing new seeds from old ideas. The a capella bit that closes it out is from the Hávamál.

[Daniellaofsweden]

This song is basically a death song. It touches on the ancient ritual of singing the dying into the afterlife, as to lessen their anxiety about death and making the passing easier. I imagine having your loved ones singing to you as a last act of love is really beautiful.

Here are the lyrics roughly translated. (Ps, Hel isn't hell, but rather a cold and neutral realm reserved for common folk who didn't die in battle).

I sought the songs
I sent the songs
when the deepest well
offered drops so mighty
of Valfather’s pledge

I know it all, Odin
where you hid your eye

Who will sing me
in the death-sleep sling me
when I walk the road to Hel
and the tracks I tread
are cold, so cold

Early or in fading day
still the raven knows if I fall

When you stand by the gate of Hel
and when you must tear loose
follow you I shall
across the bridge of Gjöll with my song

You become free from the bonds that bind you
You are free from the bonds that bound you

[poolhallshark]

Great reaction, Ken! I'm Norwegian, and I can assure that the vikings were no joke, just like you said. I dare you to laugh at a viking joke. What do you call a vegetarian Viking? A Norvegan.
Have a great weekend! Somber greetings from Norway ☠

[sreneethomas]

Einar Selvik and his band Wardruna are unbelievable. I’ve been a fan from the beginning. Such artists. Keeping true to the root of human music from our ancestors

[michaeldique]

Einar Selvik, who is the lead singer, and founder of Wardruna, used to be the drummer of the Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth. So he has had a long career in music, and I am very intrigued by his current project with Wardruna. He is definitely tapping into something primordial in our collective psyche with his music.

[lillm]

Great reaction👍

Einar and Aurora are from about the same place in Norway. Einar is from Osterøy right outside of Bergen but has lived a long time in Bergen, and Aurora from Drange about 40 minutes from Bergen, but she lives in Bergen.

This is a song composed by Einar Selvik (vocalist), he writes viking inspired music.

This song amongst others are in the popular series “Vikings”. In one scene you can see Einar singing “Helvegen” while the Vikings sails away in their ships😊

Helvegen (the path/road to Hel)

In Norse mythology, Hel is an underground realm of the dead where it was believed that most people ended up when they died. In Norse cosmology, north is the direction towards cold and death. It is therefore understandable that Hel is cold and intractable, and that the road there leads "north and down".

Hel is also the name of the ruler of the underworld. She is motherly and terrifying, and her skin is part blue-black like that of a corpse and part human-colored. She is very greedy and does not easily give up the dead who end up with her.

Could you please react to some more Aurora 🙏🤗

“All is soft inside” live at KEXP Iceland 2018
It’s important that it’s KEXP Iceland👍😍

“Exhale Inhale” live at Vevo😍

[einark]

The lead singer Einar Selvig and his band Wardruna composed and performed a lot of songs and music for the epic series "Vikings" from HBO. Superb reaction Ken !

[petervandewalle]

His name is Einar Selvig check out ''Viking suite'' with Trevor Morris international gala tv series....crazy cello ...amazing!!!

[JohnGunn]

I got to see Wardruna live last fall, and they’re just absolutely incredible performers. And this is their indoor stage setup - the lighting and shadow work makes it so much more immersive.

[HohnerCornell]

I considered this song one of the songs that i like to be played in my funeral. Tremendous song.

[eckligt]

Let's also remember that vikings were the first Europeans to set foot in what is now Canada.

[monikadeinbeck]

Helvegen was written by Wardruna, so it's not a traditional. However, it draws from germanic folklore in the style of a funeral ceremony.
Einar Selvik is the lead singer of Wardruna. I believe Norway is not that large a country that two singers like Einar and Aurora can not know each other. It has the population of Minnesota.

[palantir]

Wardruna makes great music.
Have a look at the official videos of:
Raido
Lyfjaberg
Kvitraven
Etc.

[eivindkaisen]

Ues, it is outside at Bergennhus festning, Bergen Norway, 22 August 2018.
It's all in Norwegian, except for the last spoken stanxasa from Hávamál (The poen og the Hig[est] One, ie Oðinn, Odin) which is in Old Norse.
Jackson Crawford has recently published a modern English translation (see his YouTube Channel for examples of his reading of it.)

[crhu]

Aurora is so wonderful with this material, it stretches her phrasing out and sounds so much fuller. Her personal idiosyncratic style is lovely but here she has channelled the spirit of the song.

Her duets are terrific and it would be great for her to get into ensembles, maybe even appear with Ayreon or Epica or something else out of her wheelhouse.


Imagine Aurora featured with Jinjer or The Hu.

[brenlane]

Wardruna is like an American Indian Powwow meets heavy metal vocals. I've had the privilege of seeing them live twice, so far.

[gratefulpitnicker]

Wow, such a great start to the weekend for us in the States! I very much appreciate the humorous way you interpret and react on some of your videos but it seems you sensed immediately the gravity of this song and the serious nature of it's subject matter. Thanks for the respect you gave this amazing performance and performers. Other commenters, much more knowledgeable of the band, will expand on the subject and meaning of the masterpiece we just witnessed so I'll comment on 🧚Aurora's 🧚 performance. One comment about the lead singer - as you mentioned, he's GOT to be good to have 🧚 Aurora 🧚 backing him up 🤯. I love the intensity they all perform with; you can see 🧚🧚Aurora 🧚 falling further and further into a trance-like state as the performance progresses. Eyes closed, she's swaying to the beat, raising her arms, pleading for understanding, and gripping the microphone in a near "death grip", and always, ALWAYS, nailing her performance! 🧚 Aurora 🧚 is THE most genuine performer of our time, and she shows us her more serious side today.

[IronRaspberry]

I’m in love with this reaction. PLEASE react to Heilung “Anoana” and “Norupo”.