Beach House Write A Song On A Norwegian Train
Aside from the horrible exchange rate and like $50 beers, Norway's a very cool place. Stereogum's got a soft spot for it: that's where Brandon and I first joined forces, during coverage of Øya Festivalen 2006 in Oslo. Annie and Noxagt and Serena-Maneesh and Erlend Øye and black metal thrive there. And journalists, when they find themselves with a video crew and on the same train as Beach House, have the balls to ask the duo to write a song especially for them, and follow that up with a live video recording of the tune in the destination station. Nice work, Norway. Now the song's first lyric sounds like it might just be a Beach House bitch out for being disturbed mid-journey by this project ("We were sleeping 'til you came along..."), but it winds up being just a nice, sepia-tinged Beach-y sing along. Victoria and Alex explain:
so on our journey through norway we were asked by norwegian tv if a reporter could join us on the train trip from bergen to oslo. they also asked that beach house write a song on the train journey through the mountains and that they record it for radio on the train and at oslo staion for tv. the results are thus.....
Well shit they made that seem pretty easy. Guess we can expect a(nother) great album soon then. That comes via this site, which is called either NRK or Lydverket. Norwegian readers, could you translate this please?
Lydverket utfordret amerikanske Beach House til å lage en låt på toget mellom Bergen og Oslo. Victoria Legrand og Alex Scally ble så fascinert av mektige fjell, klare elver, grønne tær, snø, bittesmå trehus og Norge at det resulterte i denne fine låten. Som vi kan driste oss til å kalle "Norway". Her fremført helt ytterst på en perrong på Oslo S.
Takk in advance.
Posted at 3:09 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Beach House
can someone rip an mp3 of the song?
thanks for posting the vid!
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their show in Stavanger last night was great! It was Victoria's birthday so we all sang "gratulere med dagen" (The "happy birthday" song in Norwegian) to her.
by the way: Lydverket is a music show on the TV-station NRK.
Translation as requested:
Lydverket challenged the American band Beach House to write a song on the train between Bergen and Oslo. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally were so fascinated by the mighty mountains, clear rivers, green trees, snow, tiny wooden houses and Norway in general that it all resulted in this pretty song. And we're gonna be a little bold and name it "Norway". This video shows the band preforming the song on the central train station in Oslo.
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Yep, here goes (Lydverket, btw, is a music show on both radio and TV, on the channel NRK (Norwegian National Broadcasting):
"Lydverket challenged the American band Beach House: Make a song on the train between Bergen and Oslo. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally were fascinated with the great mountains, clear rivers, trees in blossom, snow, tiny wooden houses, and Norway in general - it all resulted in this fine song, Dare we call it "Norway"? Here the band perform it at Oslo Central Station, at the end of an eight hour long journey by train."
For more videos from sessions like these (featuring Iron & Wine, Lykke Li, Familjen, The Heavy, The 1990s and many more):
http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/lydverket-videoplayer/?bcpid=1378342454&bclid=1411847775&bctid=1482436858
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Sure thing:
Lydverket (A music program broadcasted on the largest national channel, NRK) challenged American Beach House to create a tune on the train between Bergen and Oslo. Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally were so fascinated by mighty mountains, clear rivers, green trees, snow, tiny tree houses and Norway that it made them create this tune. Which we can venture to call "Norway". Here the tune is performed at the edge of a platform on Oslo's central station."
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Oooops. Simultaneous translation... ;-)
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man i don't know which translation to believe...
bust it!
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