Midnight Choir

Alternative rock
Alt. country
Americana
Chamber pop
Slowcore

Years active1992–2004LabelsGlitterhousePast members

Chris Eckman
Carla Torgerson
Michael Wells
Glenn Slater
Terri Moeller
Paul Austin

Websitewww.midnightchoir.org

Midnight Choir was a Norwegian alternative 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 Lot
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. String arrangements by Mark Nichols.