- Brand - BBC 2
- Spot - The Last Kingdom
- Music Title - The Last Kingdom
- Artist - Eivør
- Composer - Lunn, Pálsdóttir
- Publisher - NBC Universal
- Master Rights - NBC Universal / Carnival Films
- Music Supervisor - A&G Syncs
- Film Company - Carnival Films / BBC America
- Film Producer - Nick Murphy
- Air Date - 22/10/15
Faroese singer songwriter Eivør Pálsdóttir must thank You Tube for her key contribution to the soundtrack of BBC TV’s new Viking drama The Last Kingdom, hotly tipped to become a global smash to rival Game Of Thrones.
The same icy vocals which, to date, have featured on ten Danish albums, are the defining feature of both the credits and an extensive score by Downton Abbey composer John Lunn.
He was looking for a new direction for The Last Kingdom when he was shown online footage of Eivor performing her 2004 song Trøllabundin.
“What I heard was amazing,“ says Lunn. “So I experimented with adding a distorted double bass over her voice and tacked it on to the end of Episode 1. The producers loved it so much we invited her to the UK immediately.”
That was in March and, working from studios in London and Copenhagen, the pair put the finishing touches to their collaboration barely four weeks before the series was first aired in the UK on October 22.
The Last Kingdom is not the first time Eivør - who has been working on syncs with specialist management and production company A&G for the last three years - has been linked with TV’s burgeoning swords and Saxons genre.
In 2014 a remix of another track So Close To Being Free was used in a US Game Of Thrones trailer while next year she will play a cameo role in the upcoming Beowulf series as well as making a high profile trailer writing trip to Hollywood.
A Last Kingdom soundtrack album is also in the pipeline.
