Kalandra unveils the first single “Let Me Be Open” today, from the much anticipated third studio album ‘The Other Side’. The new album is set for November 13, worldwide via By Norse Music. Pre-orders start today! The record will be available on Black Vinyl, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl, Digibook and on all digital platforms. The Norwegian folk-pop group also announce a lengthy European headliner tour with special guest Finnegan Tui. Find all confirmed dates below.
Kalandra takes the listeners on a breathtaking journey through dreams and nightmares on the new full-length. The first single “Let Me Be Open” encourages the free and openmindedness we gradually lose more and more as we grow older. In dreamy and uplifting soundscapes, vocalist Katrine chants: Let me be open and ready to recieve. The song expresses hope, and inspires to not be ruled by fear, and rather to explore and remember the curiousity and spark of childhood. Katrine explains:
“There’s a moment when you realise how much of yourself you’ve learned to hold back. Let Me Be Open grew out of that feeling, the longing to loosen your grip, let go of some of the fear, and rediscover the sense of wonder you had as a child. It’s a song about making space for something softer to emerge, and trusting that not every shadow needs to be fought.”
Stream the single: https://bfan.link/let-me-be-open
On the album “The Other Side” the band explores the mysterious imagery of the subconscious—where memories, fears, and imagination quietly intertwine. Thematically following a series of vivid and recurring dreams over the past few years. Vocalist and songwriter Katrine Stenbekk, together with bandmate Jogeir Daae Mæland, began exploring the world of dream analysis. Keeping a notebook by the bed, they started writing down fragments of dreams the moment they woke. Those scattered images, emotions, and subconscious narratives, became the foundation for a new collection of songs.
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Kalandra has also announced their biggest headliner tour in Europe to date, with special guest singer-songwriter Finnegan Tui from New Zealand. The 2027 tour starts on February 26 in Cologne and ends March 27 in Amsterdam. Through the extensive one month tour, the band will visit all major cities in Europe – including the UK and Scandinavia. Tickets go on sale next week.
The Other Side – TOUR DATES 2026 – 2027
NORWAY
26.11.2026 – Stavanger, Folken
27.11.2026 – Kristiansand, Kick
04.12.2026 – Bergen, Kulturhuset
05.12.2026 – Bodø, Sinus
11/12.2026 – Oslo, Salt
12.12.2026 – Trondheim, Havet
EU & UK
26.02.2027 – Gebaeude 9, Cologne
27.02.2027 – Backstage, Munich
28.02.2027 – Im Wizemann Club, Stuttgart
02.03.2027 – Trinity, Bristol
03.03.2027 – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
04.03.2027 – Slay, Glasgow
05.03.2027 – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester
06.03.2027 – Islington Assembly Hall, London
07.03.2027 – Botanique, Brussels
09.03.2027 – Moritzbastei, Leipzig
10.03.2027 – Szene Wien, Vienna
11.03.2027 – A38, Budapest
12.03.2027 – Hype Park, Krakow
13.03.2027 – Niebo, Warsaw
14.03.2027 – FRANNZ Club, Berlin
16.03.2027 – Kollektivet Livet, Stockholm
18.03.2027 – Monument, Gothenburg
19.03.2027 – Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen
20.03.2027 – Logo, Hamburg
21.03.2027 – Rock Café, Prauge
23.03.2027 – Dynamo, Zurich
24.03.2027 – Legend Club, Milano
25.03.2027 – Rayonne, Lyon
26.03.2027 – Machine du Moulin Rouge, Paris
27.03.2027 – Paradiso, Amsterdam
Kalandra
The dream world has inspired many great works of art over the centuries. The phantasmagorical terrain inhabited by Lewis Carroll, Salvador Dali and David Lynch is where we now find Scandinavian alt-prog-folk artisans Kalandra, whose elegant blend of Nordic pop savvy and dark atmospheric rock has been a developing sensation for 15 years.
Formed while the core members were studying at Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, their remarkably assured 2020 debut album The Line – over 54 million streams and counting – was followed by 2022’s immersive video game soundtrack Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Lands. In 2024, their captivatingly majestic A Frame Of Mind album powerfully affirmed Kalandra’s ascendancy – as did their sold-out headline show at Oslo’s 1300-capacity Rockefeller venue earlier this year. Their proven genius for weaving ethereal melodies into raw and eerie musical landscapes makes them a perfect fit for a concept album about dreaming, as we are presented with on The Other Side.
Determining the theme before writing began, the band started ‘dream journalling’: jotting down their nocturnal visions and working them into songs. “It’s been very helpful to write down my dreams,” affirms singer Katrine. “It definitely affected how I wrote lyrics. I would love to do this again, have some sort of loose concept, it brings the record together.”
“Knowing the theme was dreaming was helpful to me musically too,” adds guitarist Florian. “We could have these dreamy effects in there. I feel most of the songs have nightmarish or dreamy parts, one way or another. There are still a lot of different themes here though, there’s folklore, current events, introspective stuff, life and death… Everything can fit into dreams lyrically speaking, it’s just life, it’s all-encompassing.”
There’s a very dreamlike blend of languor and disturbance taking different shapes throughout the record. Faroese singer-songwriter Elinborg lends her imploring voice to the nervous percussive tension of the uncharacteristically brisk Animal: “Kalandra have long joked about our inability to write an upbeat song,” says Katrine, “so at 136 BPM, this one finally proves that we’re capable of it!”.
Pensive ballad A Ship Has Left The Shore especially exemplifies the album’s scrupulously uncluttered soundscape, focusing purely on the strength of its haunting vocal and piano melodies. “It’s about losing someone dear to you,” reveals Katrine.
Kalandra have long since settled into their own versatile musical identity, embracing effective contrasts between shimmering joy and aching melancholy, sounding atavistically ancient but stylishly contemporary, otherworldly but firmly rooted in woodland soil.
The band have no problem sharing their hopes and ambitions for the future, and it’s much the same as any blossoming band in the prime of their lives with a beautifully wrought new album in the can: bigger tours, bigger crowds, bigger budgets, bigger stages – the bigger the better for Florian. “I’ll only be happy once we’ve done a Rammstein-sized show,” he grins, “with a nuclear power plant on wheels travelling beside the bus! That’s peak ambition!”
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