# Midnight Choir

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Norwegian band

Midnight Choir Origin Norway Genres Alternative rock Alt. country Americana Chamber pop Slowcore Years active 1992–2004 Label Glitterhouse Past members Chris Eckman Carla Torgerson Michael Wells Glenn Slater Terri Moeller Paul Austin Website www.midnightchoir.org

**Midnight Choir** was a [Norwegian](/source/Norway) [alternative rock](/source/Alternative_rock)/[alt-country](/source/Alt-country) band active from 1992 to 2004.

## Biography

The members of Midnight Choir were Al DeLoner (Atle Bystrøm 'Olsen'), [Paal Flaata](/source/Paal_Flaata), and Ron 'Bystrøm' Olsen. (Atle and Ron are brothers)

The band played a kind of [Americana music](/source/Americana_music) and was named after the opening of [Leonard Cohen](/source/Leonard_Cohen)'s song "[Bird on a Wire](/source/Bird_on_the_Wire)": "Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir."

## Honors

- 1998: [Spellemannprisen](/source/Spellemannprisen) in the category best Rock band, for the album *Amsterdam Stranded*

## Discography (albums)

- 1994: *[Midnight Choir](/source/Midnight_Choir_(album))*

- 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)

- *2008: In the Shadow of the Circus*

- *2016: The Loma Ranch Sessions*

From *Olsen's Lot* and onward produced by [Chris Eckman](/source/Chris_Eckman) (of [The Walkabouts](/source/The_Walkabouts)).

On the album *Unsung Heroine*, Chris Eckman is part of the band. There is also an appearance by [Nils Petter Molvær](/source/Nils_Petter_Molv%C3%A6r) on trumpet. String arrangements by [Mark Nichols](/source/Mark_Nichols_(composer)).

## Discography (DVD)

- 2008: *In the Shadow of the Circus* Live recording Rockefeller Oslo mars 2003

## External links

- [Midnight Choir](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p457533) at [AllMusic](/source/AllMusic_(identifier))

Awards Preceded by Poor Rich Ones Recipient of the Rock Spellemannprisen 1998 Succeeded by Madrugada

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