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We have this crazy landscape, and weather can change from one day to the next. And the light is very bright and the darkness is very dark, and the contrasts are big. I think that inspires artists and musicians to create. Faroese music evolved in isolation.

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Not just for geographical reasons — the archipelago sits midway between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic — but also for cultural and commercial ones. No musical instruments reached the islands until the s, partly because of their remoteness, and partly because until Denmark was the monopoly trader with the Faroes, and the islanders were not allowed to own their own ships or trade with other nations.

Before then, the only accompaniment to song was the stamping of feet. And so its ancient traditions have remained part of the mainstream. There are three strands to Faroese traditional music. There are the ballads, the ancient tales, whose lyrics are handed down orally and are accompanied by the chain dance.

She tells him to propose to the daughter of the king of Girtland. He receives an insulting reply. The king bars the door to his hall and his men attack Viljorm, who is killed. There is also the strand of music known as skjaldur , which are lullabies for children that have roots in the pre-Christian, fairytale universe. All forms of music differ from village to village — until the advent of cars and roads, getting from one place to another was a slog over the fells, or a potentially hazardous journey by boat — and the field recordists who started to compile the Faroese ballads in the s discovered that you might find different melodies for the same song even in the same village.

In the 70s you might have heard them at funerals, he says, but no longer.

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The ballads, however, remain alive. Every single Faroese performer seems to get a large proportion of the crowd singing along, and boys and girls are equally delighted by all of them. Not everything is good — some of it is very average indeed — but almost every performer gets a response.

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So we keep it to once a month. It tends to be the same people who come to each show.

Is there any stigma attached to being a Necronomicon-wielding metal singer in a society that still looks askance at difference Magni Arge, one of the two Faroese MPs in the Danish parliament, explains that it remains a patriarchal society, and gay people and even single mothers often emigrate to Denmark to escape the stigma? Even in Denmark she had her problems when she started: Just one person turned up to the show. It was this drunk Faroese guy. But things got better. Intended for mature readers.

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