Progressive Rock
Karisma Records · 13 November 2026
Airbag founder member Bjørn Riis releases “Divergence”, a four-track mini-album, today, 13 November, on Karisma Records. According to the album notes, it’s new material written largely during the sessions for “Fimbulvinter”, the record the Norwegian musician released on 11 April 2025, and it completes a personal trilogy with that album and “Lifandi”, the live mini-album that came out on 29 May this year.
It runs to around twenty-five minutes: “Carry Me”, “Mercy”, “Break Free” and “When I Think of You”. “Mercy”, the album’s single, is a duet with Norwegian artist Mimmi Tamba; the notes describe it as a song about change and hope that nods to the American singer-songwriter tradition, which, the notes say, has been a recurring influence throughout Riis’s music.
Riis plays every instrument, and longtime collaborator Vegard Kleftås Sleipnes handled mixing and mastering. Riis shot the cover photograph himself at Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse in Denmark, and the design is by Airbag frontman Asle Tostrup.
Text by Guillem Cardós