Following Oslo, Norway’s long-running Øya Festival earlier this year, we kept the festivities rolling with a “Neighborhoods: Oslo” subseries focusing on the local talent that provides the annual fest with its unique flavor complementing the lineup’s global-superstar headliners. Although the miniseries—which aimed to focus on such groups as they perform in various locations around the city—wrapped up back in September, we’ve got one last entry before the end of the year.
For the most populous episode of the subseries (and probably “Neighborhoods” more broadly), the newly launched orchestral rock group Slowshift performed a two-song set at the Munch Museum in Oslo’s Bjørvika neighborhood in the city’s port district—the group’s second-ever performance together, immediately preceding their third at Øya. An offshoot of Of Monsters and Men (whose Nanna gave the band her co-sign earlier this year), Highasakite, and Motorpsycho, the project most notably features a 16-piece string orchestra, who pack the performance space for dramatic renditions of the tracks “Every Kind of L” and “EndUp.”
The band’s core members Kristoffer Lo, Brynjar Leifsson, and Tomas Järmyr are joined here by vocalists Fay Wildhagen and Kristian Kristensen, as well as the Trondheim Soloists orchestra featuring Ola Lindseth, Rannveig Ryeng, Anna Adolfsson Vestad, Kristian Ye, Maja Langeteig, Elisabeth Uddu, Tora Stølan Ness, Jonas Viken, Anna Volløyhaug, Frøydis de Damas, Bergmund Skaslien, Vilde Toverød, Cecilie Koch, Marit Aspås, Sigrid Sand Angelsen, and Ole Herman Sjölin. Check out the video below, which was shot by Brad Wagner and produced by I Know We Should.
