- 2024-12-23
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MUSIC
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Ella Marie & Northern Project Team Up for New Remix of “Mannat”
Norwegian singer-songwriter Ella Marie teamed up with Norwegian producer-duo Northern Project to release a new remix of “Mannat” on December 13, 2024.
This marks the first collaboration between Ella Marie and Northern Project.
The original version of the song was released back in October.
On the track, she sings in her mother tongue the Northern Sámi languages, and tells the importance of preserving it through her music.
The track was written by Askjell Solstrand, Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, and Lars Kristian. The remix version was produced by Lars Kristian Rosness and Northern Project.
Northern Project said of the remix, “We have previously toyed with the idea of combining trance with Joik. Ella Marie has a fantastic voice, with a power and tenderness that alone gives you goosebumps, so being able to combine it with our groove and our melodies ended up with an incredibly cool song in our ears. We hope it will be well received by both trance fans and others out there in the listening sphere.”- Ella Marie said of the song, “Singing to my people in my mother tongue the Northern Sámi languages gives me hope. because there aren't really that many songs released in our language. But now I add one song to our collective memory, I feel like I'm a part of perpetuating the language. Maybe someone will connect with it feel seen or heard or in any was lonely and in that case it will be worth it. Doing something so vulnerable as exposing your innermost thoughts and fears the world.”
She continued, “To write real personal songs instead of just political protest songs is important as well. so much of the music I love and listen to are honest and personal songs about universal human experiences. with all these polarized debates around us. I think it's so important that we sometimes actively remember what we have in common. We all have that innermost layer. A core that can be moved by art, by beautiful experiences, by relations, by music. We have this common despite our differences.” -
She added, “I think it's important that I sing in my mother tongue. I think it's important that I ask people to open their hearts to different languages that I make them feel something, even though that can't understand the words. Music is a universal language should I think we can understand very much, if we're willing to try. Music has power to build bridges across any destination as long as the listener is willing to actually listen.”
She shared on social media, “We had been demonstrating for 105 hours straight, during the first Fosen demonstration. I had just come home after spending three nights at the ministry building and one at the police stadion. I had just come home for the first time in what felt like forever. It was so quiet. I think I started recording to feel less lonely. Many months later I wrote the song Mannat, about the emptiness I felt after the demonstrations were over. This recording became the perfect visual friend to my lyrics.”
Photo by Mads Suhr Pettersen - source : Apple Music
