Sara Flindt (DK)
Danish-born and based between Copenhagen and Reykjavík, Sara Flindt is a vocalist, composer and improviser whose work moves fluidly between songwriting and the avant-garde. Shaped by a childhood among the green forests of Jutland, she now creates from a home surrounded by Iceland’s wind-battered cliffs — and it is precisely this tension between landscapes, memory and dream that lies at the heart of her music.
She uses sound as a way of travelling between worlds: between physical places, dreamscapes and technological spheres. With a homemade pedalboard, she transforms her voice into both an expression of self and an object outside of herself. In her compositions, senses and dreams compete with memory in a way that is at once disorienting and revealing, blending the organic and the technological with a playfulness as vulnerable as it is mysterious.
In May 2023 she released the EP It’s Always Nice To Be Wanted, a meditation on the idea of home, recorded in each of the places she has called home along the way. Three of its tracks (“Don’t look back, carry on”, “It’s always nice to be wanted” and “Organize – IANTBW Version”) feature in Samantha Shay’s 2023 dance film Romance, made with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal. Her split album While We Wait, created with Icelandic artists RAKEL and Salóme Katrín, was nominated for Album of the Year at the Icelandic Music Awards 2022.
Sara previously wrote and performed under the moniker ZAAR — her debut EP Lost My Sense Of Humour came out in 2019, and she has played venues and festivals including Roskilde Festival, Iceland Airwaves, SPOT Festival (Aarhus), G! Festival (Faroe Islands), Rockwood Music Hall (New York City), Arctic Sounds (Sisimiut) and Nuuk Nordic Festival (Greenland). In 2025 she completed a Master’s degree in Music Performance at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. As a producer and co-creator, she is behind RAKEL’s debut album a place to be, released in autumn 2025 via Ólafur Arnalds’ OPIA Community. She also collaborates with Polish musician Szymon Wójcik.