SOLO

Traditional and experimental joik, guitars and synthesizers

I have been working as a joiker at Scene Nord since January 2023. In 2022 I released my first solo album, Sámi Noise on Nice Things Records. In 2024 I finished the commissioned piece Mosku (Black Fog) for Borealisfestivalen in Bergen, featuring joik, guitar, and synthesizer. I work as a traditional joiker, experimental joiker, guitarist and improviser both as a solo artist and in other constellations. Here I will try to showcase both sides. I am currently working on recording an EP consisting exclusively of traditional joik material.

Sámi Noise (Nice Things Records)
Experimental synths, guitars and sampled joik

Gumpe (The Wolf) with Terje Baugerød
Traditional joik, experimental organ

North, with New Borders
Experimental guitar, trumpet, organ, saxophone, joik

There is a surprise on the last day. Viktor Bomstad performs a program called ‘Mosku’ in a pool at the quays in Bergen. As families with children gather in the water on a sunny Sunday, the musician starts with a steady gongs sound but ends with prolonged phrases of screams and growling, combining them with noise music. A chilling tale bordering on horror isn’t probably what some of the audience expected. “Perhaps for him, the story he tells was healing, but not for us,” says someone near me. The concert and the situation stuck firmly in my mind. But isn’t art there to rouse us from our state of mind? This subliminal and non-obvious story about culture and identity works most powerfully – a kind of information, subversion, or resistance.

- Nowe Idzia Od Morza