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Thanks, that was nice! Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote: > Not Looping really but interesting. Here is norwegian improv guitarist > playing in Viglands Mausoleum. An amazing place with incredible reverb. I > have been here many many times and have recorded here myself. (For $100 > you > can rent it in the evening for private use). > > Sorry its in Norwegian: Maybe 2 of you can understand? > > http://vimeo.com/55225161 > > Stian is an interesting musician, clearly in the noise scene here, which > crosses into the Jazz scene. (Mostly for funding reasons) He is a > virtuoso > at playing the guitar with a viola bow. > > The mausoleum was built by Emanuel Vigeland to house his own remains. It > is > his brother Gustav who was the famous sculptor, who's pieces are strewn > all > over Oslo, his younger brother, Emanuel was seriously jealous of his > brother > success, and was a accomplished artist in his own right. If anything his > work was more edgy and dark than Gustav, the mausoleum was his way to > ensure > his own fame after his death. > One enters the room through a small low door that you must bend down to > enter, its only once you are inside that you realise that you just > crawled > right under the urn containing his remains. > > The mausoleum is very hidden and under marketed, due to the > uncompromising > images he painted on the walls that are verging on pornography. But > recently > played host to a series of famous performers, including Diamanda Galas > and > Mick Harvey > > Hope this is of interest: > > Mark > > > > -- > Mark Francombe > www.markfrancombe.com > www.ordoabkhao.com > http://vimeo.com/user825094 > http://www.looop.no > twitter @markfrancombe > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24478662@N00/ >