STORM WEATHER SHANTY CHOIR FRÅ PERIFERIFESTIVALEN TIL EVENTYRLEG USA-TURNÉ
At MySpace ikkje er oppskrytt, er det herved fleire enn Arctic Monkeys som kan skrive under på. 12. september 2009 er Storm Weather Shanty Choir inviterte til å spele i bryllup i Kennebunk, Maine, etter at det unge amerikanske brudeparet oppdaga musikken deira på MySpace og blei frelste. Sjantikoret frå Stord nyttar det gyldne høvet til å dra over og gjere ei handfull opne konsertar i New York og Maine i forkant, bl.a. på indieklubbane Parkside Lounge, Rockwood Music Hall og The Living Room.
Ni år, fire kritikarroste plater og nærare to hundre forrykande konsertar i inn- og utland, er status for noregs råaste sjantikor. Storm Weather Shanty Choir slapp sitt fjerde album, Way Hey (and away we’ll go) i mai i år, til stor begeistring frå både publikum og presse:
”rockekor som kan stå foran sitt definitive gjennombrudd”
Tore Bø, Bergensavisen
”Full av energi, men med vakre pusterom” Olav Gorseth, Bergens Tidende
“ “Et lekende lystig album…en fryd for øret” Anne Lill W. Aas, Telemarksavisa
”… på sin fjerde plate hiver Stord-sekstetten med bakgrunn i rock og ræl seg ut på dypt vann uten minste antydning til å drukne…Tøft, ekte og ærlig”
Geir Hovensjø, Østlendingen
Produsent på vår fjerde sjantiplate er Bjørn Bunes, og medverkande gjesteartistar er m.a. William Hut, Dave Cloud(Nashville), Sigrid Moldestad & Nils Økland.
ALLE PLATENE VÅRE ER Å FÅ PÅ ITUNES:-)
ENGLISH:
The indie folkrock choir/band Storm Weather Shanty Choir, from the seaside and west coast of Norway, are coming for their first time to U.S in September.
We guarantee unforgettable and unusual concert/show. Our gigs/shows are very much based on including the audience in different ways.
Storm Weather Shanty Choir consists of six singers and musicians with backgrounds ranging from rock, pop (guitar player from Magnet (N) and William Hut (N), Roald Kaldestad), metal and folk, and for credibilitys sake, a sailor/shanty man who has sailed and worked for many seasons aboard the tall ship SS Statsraad Lehmkuhl, and has also a masters degree in shanties and seasongs.
We have played together for almost ten years, we claim to be one of the most curious live rock/folk acts in Norway and promise extraordinary liveshows, were songs from the seven seas get mixed from a capella to full instrumentation, rock n roll style!
Quoted in a concert review from the rockstage Checkpoint Charlie in Stavanger (Norway): "The untraditional Storm Weather Shanty Choir rocked the place with shanties from the seven seas, renewed with both Ramones and Slayer references and mindblowing mandolinsolos. The leadsinger had totally control over the audience and made them sing like pirates when needed, and at the same time make the audience so quiet you could hear a needle fall to the ground"
- Played more then 200 concerts, in clubs, pubs, rock and folk festivals in Norway, England, Germany, Switzerland....and soon USA
- Storm Weather Shanty Choir has played support for, and together with the most famous artists of Norway such as Kaizers Orchestra, Odd Nordstoga, Vamp, Katzenjammer,and also the Nashville pirate Dave Cloud and the Power of Gospel (US)
Please check us out at www.myspace.com/shantychoir or www.shantychoir.com
More information about Storm Weather Shanty Choir:
More ambitious than ever, the Norwegian Storm Weather Shanty Choir released their fourth album Way Hey (and away we’ll go) on April 27 2009 (both digital and through the international distributor Musikkoperatorene /www.musikkoperatorene.no.). The album got great reviews overall! Together with producer Bjørn Bunes (Poor Rich Ones, Magnet, William Hut, Poor Rich Ones) the six piece extraordinary rock choir, from the west coast island of Stord, has finally managed to capture their raw and captivating live energy on tape. All songs are experimentational interpretations of traditional shanties and forebitters from the great days of sail. Storm Weather Shanty Choir has trough their ten year old history enjoyed a growing respect from both rock and folk musicians both national and international, and this is mirrored in the list of guests on the album. Here you’ll find norwegian master fiddlers Nils Økland and Sigrid Moldestad side by side with norwegian pop artist William Hut and the legendary Dave Cloud from Nashville
Short CV:
- Established in 2000
- Have released four albums, and two singles in 2008 (Drunken Sailor and Boney)
- First group in Norway to release a single through a newspaper. 8000 copies of Drunken Sailor was distributed through local paper Sunnhordland in may 2008.
All albums available on Itunes:-