JUNI HABEL

About the Artist

Crackled radio-like transmissions from Norway’s rural hinterland

Juni Habel is a singer-songwriter based in Rakkestad, Norway. Like glowing embers in the dark, her songs are odes to life and death, the beauty of belonging and human kinship with nature. 

Juni’s second album, Carvings, was released in 2023 on esteemed indie labels Basin Rock (UK), Bada Bing! Records (USA) and Koke Plate (Norway), to international acclaim. The Guardian described the record as ““An affecting, timeless piece of work from a writer on song.” 

A new album, Evergreen in Your Mind, is due for release in April 2026. Songs were recorded in quiet corners of her home, on the piano in the school where she works, and it uses the physical world around her to provide percussion. It also takes place, as she herself attests, within a dream; an imagined place in which her desire for oneness with each other and the world around us is finally realised. That dream might not exist at present, but it’s one that Habel clings to, and it’s both this journey and the yearning for it that is explored throughout Evergreen In Your Mind.

Praise for Carvings

“An affecting, timeless piece of work from a writer on song.” – The Guardian

“there’s… an underlying folk wildness, a sense of antique sheet music rustled by strong winds, muddy boots on piano pedals”  –  **** MOJO

“Fans of Nick Drake, Karen Dalton and Neil Young will find much to enjoy in this musical equivalent of an evening spent alone by the fireside.” –  4/5 The Times

“A captivating musical and poetic experience” – Folk Radio

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