Midnight Choir
Real Name:
Paal Flaata, Ron Olsen, Atle Bystrøm (a.k.a Al DeLoner)
Profile:
Norwegian soft-rock band founded in summer 1992 By Paal Flaata and the two brothers Atle Bystrøm and Ron Olsen. Their first original name was Hashbrowns, but when Lasse Hafreager discovered the band in 1993, he urged them to change the name. They landed on the name 'Midnight Choir' Taken from the Leonard Cohen song: Bird On The Wire.
They recorded their first selftitled album in Texas 1994, heavily influenced to american roots music. In 1996 they met The Walkabout's front man Chris Eckman. And they managed to get him to produce their following albums. Eckman wanted to develop the band into more darker and orchestrated sound which he manage to do. The band never got serious attention until 'Amsterdam Stranded' was released in 1998, their most selling album in their career. However as the band got further recognition in Norway and Europe, they parted ways in the beginning of 2004 after two more albums to pursue other projects. They released five albums and one Best-of cd during their lifetime. They remain Norway's definite unsung heroes of the recent times.
They recorded their first selftitled album in Texas 1994, heavily influenced to american roots music. In 1996 they met The Walkabout's front man Chris Eckman. And they managed to get him to produce their following albums. Eckman wanted to develop the band into more darker and orchestrated sound which he manage to do. The band never got serious attention until 'Amsterdam Stranded' was released in 1998, their most selling album in their career. However as the band got further recognition in Norway and Europe, they parted ways in the beginning of 2004 after two more albums to pursue other projects. They released five albums and one Best-of cd during their lifetime. They remain Norway's definite unsung heroes of the recent times.
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If you like The Walkabouts, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and other related artists, you should not miss what these 3 guys managed to put out in their career. Deserves absolute more recognition worldwide than they actually got.
I still play Amsterdam Stranded to this day. A masterpiece.