Following this year’s iteration of Oslo, Norway’s long-running Øya Festival, we’re keeping the festivities rolling with our new “Neighborhoods: Oslo” subseries focusing on the local talent that provides the fest with its unique flavor complementing the lineup’s global-superstar headliners. The ongoing miniseries aims to focus on such groups as they perform in various locations around the city.
The latest artist we’re spotlighting is The Other End, the Bergen-based duo of Alexander Breidvik and Ida Knoph-Solholm, who specialize in Americana (or “Nordicana,” to be more geographically accurate) as evidenced by their recent debut LP The Sun Will Do You Good, They Said which features Sondre Lerche among a handful of other local talents. The two songs they performed for us—“Gas Station Light” and “Oh, Lord!”—both appear on that record, yet here they’re stripped from their lush studio abetted by session players sound and relocated to the spacious outdoor locale of Grünerløkka (a hip neighborhood along the Akerselva River) for a fully acoustic set.
Check out the video below, which was shot by Brad Wagner and produced by I Know We Should.
