- Album list
- Singer Intro
Midnight Choir was a Norwegian alt-rock/alt-country band active from 1992 to 2004.
Biography
The members of Midnight Choir were Al DeLoner (Atle Bystrøm 'Olsen'), Paal Flaata, and Ron 'Bystrøm' Olsen. (Atle and Ron are brothers)
The band played a kind of Americana music and was named after the opening of Leonard Cohen's song 'Bird on a Wire': 'Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir.'
Honors
1998: Spellemannprisen in the category best Rock band, for the album Amsterdam Stranded
Discography (albums)
1994: Midnight Choir
1996: Olsen's Lost
1998: Amsterdam Stranded
2000: Unsung Heroine
2002: Selected (compilation)
2003: Waiting for the Bricks to Fall
2005: All Tomorrows Tears: The Best of Midnight Choir (compilation)
From Olsen's Lot and onward produced by Chris Eckman (of The Walkabouts).
On the album Unsung Heroine, Chris Eckman is part of the band. There is also an appearance by Nils Petter Molvær on trumpet.
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