Kati Rán announces new album ‘Sála’

February 13, 2024 James Weaver

KATI RÁN has announced a new album!

Titled Sála, the upcoming album from the Dutch dark folk artist is the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s LYS, and is scheduled to be released in May this year, via her new home at Svart Records.

The upcoming album was recorded in a barn in Húsafell, Iceland – home to glacier ice caves and a rare lava stone marimba rediscovered for the track Stone Pillars – as well as Finland, Norway and at home in Kati’s native Netherlands, Sála is as much chronicle of Kati’s own perspective-shifting recording process as it as a pilgrimage through different viewpoints and internal states. The album features an impressive lineup of diverse musicians who lent their talents to the record, including Gaahl, NAPALM DEATH‘s Mitch Harris, members of HEILUNG, SÍGUR RÓS and more.

Speaking about the upcoming album, Rán says, “for me, signing to Svart Records was the most natural next step. Collaborating and releasing my music with Svart’s long-standing expertise in bringing out amazing artists and vinyl for true music connoisseurs, I’m grateful to be able to bring my audience a beautiful, elevated experience to enjoy my new Nordic dark folk album Sála.

Together with Jaani Peuhu [SWALLOW THE SUN, IANAI, LORD OF THE LOST, HALLATAR] and Christopher Juul [HEILUNG], my new album has been tenuously crafted and produced and is curated by my many years of writing, researching, and traveling the Northern landscapes, taking on board with me incredible artists, sounds, and musicians to breathe the Nordic soul into the heart of this album.

I’m looking forward to opening the floodgates to Sála with the release of the first single and opening track Stone Pillars on the 23rd of February. It embraces our most vulnerable side, questions our mind, and attempts to resurrect or reposition ourselves through spinning with the Fates. It dips right into the heart of things.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

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