Anneli Drecker has been at the forefront of Norwegian electronic music since the mid-1980s, from singing with seminal dream-pop duo Bel Canto to her many vocal guest spots with Röyksopp and A-ha. Traveling to deep within the Arctic Circle in Northern Norway, Drecker and director Thor Brenne return to their roots for “Alone.” 

The track is taken from the Tromsø-native’s long-awaited album, Rocks and Straws, an ode to her home region inspired by the poetry of Arvid Hannsen. “It's from a poem that I find so strong and powerful that I wanted to modernise it,” says Drecker. “It was written in the 1970s, but could easily be linked to a number of current situations in the media today.” 

“Northern Norway is somehow full of outspoken people in a lot of small, Twin Peaks-ish towns,” says Brenne, whose film features acrobats Louise von Euler Bjurholm and Henrik Agger. “During the summertime the midnight sun keeps things bright and beautiful 24 hours a day. Then in the early winter months the sun never rises. I like to work with the dark and the more uplifting, too.”