An artist who has developed a consistently close relationship with Greek audiences, Sivert Hoyem is preparing to return to Greece eight years after his last live performance on Greek soil.

The charismatic artist, who we met and loved through the band Madrugada, will give a concert on Saturday, April 28, at the music venue “Floyd”, in Gazi.

He will bring with him the most famous songs from his personal discography and Madrugada’s, but also tracks from his new album “On an island”, released at the end of January and of course many Madrugada songs.

Sivert Hoyem is usually described as a “melancholic” artist and he himself has always been melancholic by nature.

“In Edvard Munh’s time it was a disease that had now been diagnosed” he points out about melancholy.

But he remains deeply human and by no means cynical or nihilistic. He loves music, nature, Man.

He loves playing music in front of an audience, sharing thoughts and feelings, giving and receiving strength. And that is reassuringly optimistic!

With his latest album he demonstrates his rare artistic metal that not only doesn’t dull and rust, but – over time – matures, acquires the patina of experience and is driven to an extraordinary lyrical minimalism.

And as in all his albums, both his and Madrugada’s, everything is connected to this otherworldly Norwegian landscape, which sparkles and shines even in its deepest darkness.

Nyksund, Norway is located at 68.59 degrees north (the same latitude as that of Northern Siberia), with nine residents living there year-round. A large fishing community once ‘lived and reigned’ there, but the place was deserted in the 1960s because its harbour was too shallow for modern trawlers.

Sivert Hoyem grew up a 45-minute drive from there. As a child, he used to go to Nyksund to explore a genuine ghost town.

Then somehow the community somehow came back to life, artists and hippies populated it for the “atmosphere” of its hyper-mountainous landscape.

Nyksund appeared in film and television productions.