The Nordic Sound, a Nordic Musicology Podcast
What is the Nordic sound? Is there even a Nordic sound to begin with? Why has the music of the North long invited so much popular attention and imagination across the centuries? Join musicologist Jameson Foster as he explores the very question of music and Nordic cultural heritage through interviews with some of the most prominent musicians in the Nordic music scene today across genres, from black metal, to classical and trad folk, and everything in between.
Remember: No Nazis in Valhalla.
Podcasting since 2022 • 103 episodes
The Nordic Sound, a Nordic Musicology Podcast
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The Nordic Sound's Top 10 Albums of 2025
What a year to be a Nordic music geek, eh? This is already my fourth year of doing these year-end lists, and looking back, I do believe this year has left the greatest impression on me. Not only as a listener, but as a musician myself. I look f...
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#62 - Faber Horbach talks Sowulo's new album NIHT
Faber and I had such a good time hanging out for Nordic Sound 52 , that we just had to have him back on the channel to talk about Sowulo’s latest album, NIHT. We also talk about our shared challenges of listening to music as musicians (cognitiv...
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#61 - Runahild Kvitbjarkan talks Seid, Healing, and Spirituality
Runahild joins the channel once again for Nordic Sound #61 to chat about her upcoming album (and book!) Seid, in which she takes us through a personal and spiritual journey with "seid" - an ancient Nordic shamanic practice of which there is woe...
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#60 - Einar Selvik of Wardruna | Birna, Fire in the Mountains, and More
Live from the Pike's Peak Center in Colorado Springs, Einar and Jameson sit down for a retrospective on Wardruna’s “Birna” and the historic Fire in the Mountains festival in Montana this past July.Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicologist ...
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