“Eyjar” er tónlistarlegt ferðalag þeirra Sophie Ramsay og Sarah Smout, þar sem kannað er samband mannsins við náttúru í gegnum söng, sögur, flóð, fjöru og tíma. Ferðalagið byrjar í Skotlandi en þaðan sigla þær til Hjaltlandseyja, þá til Færeyja og loks til Íslands, þar sem þær vinna með tónlistarfólki úr heimabyggð og halda tónleika. Að þessu sinni eru gestir þeirra tónlistarkonurnar og mæðgurnar Ösp Eldjárn og Kristjana Arngrímsdóttir, en Ösp og Sophie kynntust í London þegar Ösp var við nám þar í borg.

When Sarah Smout and Sohpie Ramsay met two years ago, they bonded over their shared concern for the environment – beaver reintroduction and the urgency of climate change. Later they began to make music together, each bringing a love of poetry, landscape, and an intuitive musicianship. Their two distinctive voices blend alchemically, with vocal harmonies, emotive cello, and intricate guitar playing. The result is full of character, freshness, and deep feeling. They have just finished their first joint recording project, ‘Atlas’, a live EP, to be released imminently.

After their successful Spring and Autumn Tours of 2017, and Spring tour of 2018, all in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, they embark on their most ambitious journey so far. This will be a voyage from Aberdeen to Iceland, by land and sea via Orkney and the Faroes, but they have found a yacht going the same way. The journey will partly be a tour, but more than that, they will listen and collect. It will express their environmentalism, in exploring land and sea, experiencing distance in a tangible way, taking a path that has become fractured, but which was once frequently travelled by Norse and Celtic people alike, which is still taken by fish and seabirds and mammals. They will join together dots on the map, tracing ancient cultural links and environmental history. Their intention is to come home with a sound map, including recorded sounds of nature, of speech or singing of tradition bearers, of local musicians. They also hope to collect words, especially those related to land and nature, which are less often used today. With their gathered material, they will create an album and live show, a piece that moves and shifts through collected songs and words, borrowed sounds and composed soundscapes and poetic lyrics.