Resa Saffa Park announces new album 'Kendra', shares new single 'Forever as Her Friend'

 Oslo-based singer/songwriter and composer Resa Saffa Park today announces her new album 'Kendra' will be released 6th November, and shares latest single 'Forever as Her Friend'.

Cinematic indie steeped in jazz and soul, Resa Saffa Park's music occupies a world of its own, sitting in the orbit of Tamino, Michelle Gurevich and Portishead - while drawing from the work of Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Nirvana, Mitski and Julia Jacklin.

A graduate of Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), Resa returned to her home city of Oslo to write new album Kendra. Written largely in her Oslo apartment over the course of a year, the album finds Resa Saffa Park paying closer attention to the people around her. Across twelve songs, she keeps returning to the same question: how do we understand ourselves through other people?

Produced by Daragh Patrick Wearen and Bård Berg, new single 'Forever as Her Friend' pairs smoky piano and slow-burning guitars, specifically examining the unravelling of a friendship.

Speaking on the song's release, Resa Saffa Park said:

"Forever as Her Friend is a song I wrote about a friendship that meant a lot to me, one that changed in a way I still don’t fully understand. It's a story of holding on to something that once felt permanent, and feeling it slowly come to an end without knowing how to accept it. It’s about the longing to be loved, chosen, and kept, and how losing a friend can sometimes hurt more than losing a lover.

Kendra finds Resa Saffa Park writing with a new sense of confidence, precision and emotional honesty, turning soured friendships, new love and questions of identity into her most fully realised work to date.

Songwriting remains Resa Saffa Park's clearest point of orientation - the place she returns to understand herself and the world around her.

"Music is the safest place I know. It's the place I go to tap into my deepest self. I need music to be as close to art as it can be. You can tell the difference between songs written from a place of needing to create something, rather than wanting success or streams or attention," Resa says.

Following the release of her independently-released project 'Silver Bead Eyes' in 2025, Resa has cultivated a devoted international audience, with live dates spanning Turkey, Stockholm, Milan, Paris, Copenhagen and London, with key press from The Line of Best Fit, Ones To Watch, 1883 Magazine, Headliner Magazine and more.

Resa Saffa Park's new album 'Kendra' is out 6th November, digitally and 12" vinyl via Ja Group. New single 'Forever as Her Friend' is out now.

'Kendra - album artwork & track list

1. Let It Burn

2. Is a Lonely Feeling

3. Standing Still

4. We Dream No More

5. Town Mouse

6. To Keep From Harm

7. Under The Sun

8. Melancholy

9. Forever as Her Friend

10 I Can See The World

11. 1964

12. This Quiet